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Backwards Lullaby

by Gal Musette

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dali141965 I actually have the hard copy I bought at the recent release party at Hotel Cafe. I have been a fan for 5 years. I needed a digital copy because a Microsoft update destroyed my CD/DVD drive functionality on my desktop. Anyway, G.M. just keeps getting better and better. Equally haunting and beautiful. A smidge of Blossom Dearie channeled through Edith Piaf but contemporary at the same time. Honeymoon is my favorite track.
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kjuergens Every choice made in the lyrics, melody, and piano part is transcendent. Also check out Ghost, the most beautiful expression of devastated feminine love I have heard in a song. Favorite track: Julia.
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1.
Oliver 04:27
Oliver, I saw you today 
I sink, but I want to see you again 
Oliver, my headphones are in
 I’m singing along, the songs make sense 
Songs make sense like never before
 they mingle with the constant flow in my chest
 Oliver, the world is a blur
 Your features are blurred
and so is the rest
 Let me feel like a drop of the sea
 Like a cell
 Like a grain of sand and then 
Let it go as a beautiful memory if you never want to see me again Oliver I know you don’t hear me 
I know that I’ve lost you
 You’re off in the distance
 But I’ve found one thing
 I’m a part of the world
 The music continues and the songs make sense Oliver, I heard your name
It emerged like music from the noise, from the buzz
 Oliver, my headphones are home in that drawer by the piano
just gathering dust
 Dust gathers up like dust always does
It mingles with the constant turmoil of my mind
 Oliver, the world is a buzz
Your voice is unclear and so is mine 
Let me feel like a drop of the sea
Like a cell
Like a grain of sand and then 
Let it go as a beautiful memory if you never want to see me again All is blurred, I know I don’t hear you I know that I’m lost way off in the distance but I’ve found one thing I’m a part of the world The music continues and the songs make sense Oliver I know you don’t hear me I know that I’ve lost you You’re off in the distance
 But I’ve found one thing I’m a part of the world
 The music continues and the songs make sense 
 Oliver, I’ll see you around, I hope that she feeds your mind to the moon
2.
Julia 03:43
She has one friend at school now For her sake, I just call her Julia Julia wakes up for breakfast and dreams every night just like we do Julia’s making her smile I wish she would smile forever I was once talking to her and imagined I could see right through her Julia’s awake and her souls in the air Her aura is glowing right through ya Do you recognize all the light in your eyes? You answered, it’s not me, it’s Julia You answered, I don’t know, it’s Julia I went once to a party And longed for somebody to be there for Perhaps night will take over and I won’t be waiting all day anymore She slams close the front door now And makes her retreat up the stairs I was once talking to her and Julia was not even there Julia is gone and her souls in the air Her aura is glowing right through ya Do you recognize all the light in your eyes? You answered, it’s not me, it’s Julia You answered, I don’t know, it’s Julia
3.
I awoke to a ghost on my pillow He frightened me ever so
That my fear shook the willow Woebegone, woebegone 
It is there in your eyes 
It is blue, kind of purple, sort of green Your body starts to lilt
 From side to side
T he saddest thing I have ever seen I awake to a ghost every evening now 
Imaginary friends aren’t so bad when they help somehow You are so beyond reach
 You are so look the moon 
Coming, going has always been your knack But my ghost comes around Every night when he’s gone I know he’ll be coming back And I noticed that when you’re around I’m playing with my hair I noticed when you’re not around I’m dreaming that you’re there I noticed that I’m blushing every time I talk to you I awoke to a ghost on my pillow He frightened me ever so
 That my fear shook the willow I love you like the breeze
 I love you like the moon
I love you like an evanescent dove You need me, I need you There’s nothing we can do So the ghost forgave my love And I noticed that when you’re around I’m playing with my hair I noticed when you’re not around I’m dreaming that you’re there I noticed that I’m blushing every time I talk to you
4.
Papillon 01:28
5.
Boarding in black on a plane I’m numb and following ten conversations that flow mildly like a stream I pass through on a bridge, unnoticed When looking back or ahead The feeling is dead From white wall to wall in loops Open my eyes in the isle Faces dull, in a lull, I’ve got nothing to lose Maybe some sleep And that strange itch that used to be Now there is nowhere to go coming home in drawn out minutes But I’m quietly making a prayer That this time I will never get there Only to find more white walls Sterile halls and pressing conversations Open my eyes in the dark Suddenly I can see I’ve got nothing to lose Maybe some sleep Is the only way that I can dream Walking off board in the rain I’m drained and following ten phone calls Oh, the world’s lighting up Eyes brighting up Keep me away from the beep Keep me right here Keep me right blind Put me to sleep I’ve got nothing to lose Maybe some sleep Is the only way that you can be With me
6.
Cotton candy love, moonlit strolls on boardwalks, parasols in the park
 Cherry popsicles, stained glass summer sunsets, swimming in the lake in the dark
 This is the beginning of forever for two
 Cotton candy lovin' with you 
 Doorstep butterflies, an abundance of roses, movie shows and holding hands You are my balloon, let's float up to heaven, no one else can understand That this is the beginning of forever for two
 Heavenly lovin' with you Kisses on the cheek, kisses on the eyelids, kissing everywhere you go
 Pearls of happiness, as you drop them they create fine watercolors in the snow This is the beginning of forever for two
 All these pearls of happiness with you Maze of thorns and walls, forgotten telephone calls, clouds of jealousy arise
 Hurtful words of rage, now you say I've changed, I once thought love never dies
 I thought cotton candy love was something too true 
Everything is broken with you Broken memories, broken ruby necklace, broken lace of youth, broken promises, broken trust in me, broken trust in you, broken conversation, broken watercolors This is the beginning of a life without you
 Cotton candy memories of you
7.
8.
Summertime 03:22
Why does it always seem to happen in the Summertime? Hopin’ these memories, in time, dilute and fade Into a dusty dream where the edges aren’t so tangible And the streets are of papier-mâché When will I realize that Summer’s just a perfect storm Glamoured in fervent days that swell through the night I want my peaceful world back to the way it was before you blew my mind Why is it always Summertime? Maybe the heat just makes ya blind, I can’t say Why does it always seem to come when least expected to? In the blink of an eye a heart-shaped box can steal your soul Make you forget the destination your directed to Like your frozen whole Why is it always Summertime? Something the season left behind I can’t shake I can’t shake Why is it always Summertime? I can’t say
9.
Honeymoon 03:09
I can see now I can see now as clear as day that summer is gone In fact it has long since passed away It wasn’t abrupt It’s just that I seemed to miss the change The sun was just there casting it’s glare on the dashboard All of that dust Beautifully tucked beneath the surface Who would have known? It would have grown into a circus Mingling on Somewhere beyond the jagged shadows Now they appear End of the year for an encore For an encore I float in the salt Just til my eyes can’t bear the light And try not to think without success or peace of mind Awaiting your gaze In a peripheral delusion With shattering hope in that optical illusion You are unchanged Apart from your gathered comprehensions We operate like a machine with new extensions I am the head You are the heart and both are yearning to change a trend At a dead end But look how you try As our throats dry were already sober Look at the sky It’s closing time The day’s growing older Look in my eye now that the honeymoon is over I can see clear as day I can see clear as day I can see clear as day I can see clear as day
10.
Wind carried in a tuneless hymn the night you wrote I bit my lip in my fierce delight In your silence I fear the worst is yet to come and sink into a backwards lullaby Yearning for you gives me so much to do these days Anything else is gray I end up waiting all the time Seldom I’ve heard, or had the nerve To speak the truth Take whims of youth And now I’m beginning to find that it could be sin How sweet it is It could definitely be sin How sweet it is When will I get what I deserve? A spider web, a runaway, a kaleidoscopic mind When will I be alone for good as I rightly should? For I know quite well the vengefulness of time And it could be sin How sweet it is It could definitely be sin How sweet it is
11.

credits

released October 1, 2021

Songs written by Grace Freeman (Gal Musette)

Produced, mixed, and engineered by Jon O’Brien at Music Box Studios

Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova

© 2021 The copyright of this sound recording is owned by Grace Freeman. All rights reserved.

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Gal Musette San Clemente, California

singer-songwriter & recording artist based in southern caifornia🌙
inspired by baroque pop • bal musette • folk

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