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Nothing Less Than Me

by Natalie Inga

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1.
Why Pretend 03:54
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Why do we even lie Why do we act like we want to try This is gone, this is over This is broken I know I hurt you and you hurt me too You almost told me that we were through So why pretend and hang on I don’t wanna be Any less than free To say what’s on my mind Afraid of what I’ll find One more soul I’ve loved One more friend I’ve lost One more mark on my esteem One more mark on me Meanwhile I’m making ties With someone who can look me in the eyes The kind of friend who wants the truth Says ‘bring it on, keep it real, Please hide nothing, tell me me how you feel Cause why pretend if you’re my friend?’ The words are falling out Water from my mouth Cause here it’s safe to be Nothing less than me One more soul I’ve loved One more friend I’ve lost One more mark on my esteem One more mark on me
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The Thing I Never Said 04:03
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I loved you, I loved you, I loved you I loved you, I loved you, I loved you Now we’re through And I still do One step closer, one away Which will it be today? One hand open, maybe two I can’t hold onto you Broken open or broke in two This is a thing we do Buried truth and shoulders tall I wanna know it all But here’s the thing I never said when we were lying in my bed I love you, I love you, I love you Born in winter, sad in fall I understand it all Child of fire, red hot flame The one who takes the blame Voiceless child and stubborn man He is the one who can Voiceless child and woman too She won’t let you through Here’s the thing I never said when we were lying in my bed I love you, I love you, I love you I love you, I love you, I love you
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Magic 03:54
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Magic When the music ends We will walk home And in the dark I am lulled by the beat of your heart Drink in Magic Love, it’s so simple but there’s so much to fear Here I feel safe with your chest to my ear Will it be us against the world? Magic, do you believe in it? Do you think you can love again? Do you think this will come to an end? Drink in the Magic Love, it’s so simple but there’s so much to fear Here I feel safe with your chest to my ear Will it be us against the world? And I’ll do what I can do To do right by you Love, it’s so simple but there’s so much fear Here I feel safe with your chest to my ear Will it be us against the world? Magic
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War 03:48
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You can tell a lot about a man Just by looking at his hands You can read between the lines about Hard times If you listen past the laughter If you listen long enough All the strength and the pain Come from all this fighting All this War You can tell a man has been to war When he closes every door One who doesn’t wanna talk When he doesn’t wanna fight anymore Maybe the battle left him small Hiding behind his own great wall Maybe he left his voice behind Now he wants yours And it’s War Then there’s the man who learns to love The man who rises up above The man who reaches out a hand To pull you up, a better man In this War If you want to steal me and be stolen Then I’m yours If you wanna steal my voice Then this is War War
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Anger is a Curtain 03:15
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Always got my hands up Always got my back up But why do I fight? Anger is a curtain And what’s behind it is what’s real And it’s what I feel We bicker and we shout We sell the gun shops out We never listen, oh no no no We live in cold hard fear Can’t let it go now Can’t lay it down and walk away And it makes the days long We bicker and we shout We sell the gun shops out We never listen, oh no no no We live in cold hard fear I’m wrong I’m red and I’m ready but I’m not ready I’m wrong I’m red and I’m ready but I’m not ready Wanna be alone now Where I can hide myself away And wait for this to pass We bicker and we shout We sell the gun shops out We never listen, oh no no no We live in cold hard fear
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Corner 03:36
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Look at you on the corner On the corner of your life Look at you contemplating, contemplating Left or right You could run, you could stay You could say you’ll meet me on the other side Look at you on the corner Look at you from the side There’s no place No place for you to hide Look at my candle burning Candle burning through the night This candle isn’t melting And I know something isn’t right I could run, I could stay I could say I’ll wait for you another day Look at my candle burning Burning through the night This candle isn’t melting And I know something isn’t right Corner Corner with someone on each side Corner Corner, you’ve got no place to hide Oh life isn’t made up of only corners you know There are other kinds of angles in there too and I can only be in one place I cannot be anywhere else I cannot be with anyone else but you I don’t know which way to go Standing on the corner in the cold Wheels are spinning in the snow And I am on the corner all alone Look at me on the corner Look at me from the side There’s no place No place for me to hide Look at you on the corner Look at you on the corner Look at me on the corner
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Find Your Voice With Me 03:32
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When you have lost your way When your heart is broke When every word you try to say makes you choke Oh baby, find find find your voice with me And it was our first vow To find a way To make each other our best selves somehow Oh baby, find find find your voice with me Maybe one day all this pain will abate Until then I will be your safe place Baby I’m more home with you than I’ve ever been So it’s you and me against the world I will love you deep Love you true All the things about you no one knew So baby, find find find your voice with me
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Oh for the Children 03:44
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Oh for the children learning their place Oh for the children in this slow motion race Oh for the desperate, trying to get it right Learning that survival that survival is a fight, fight, fight, fight Cover your face, cover your face, cover your face Cover your face, cover your face, cover your face When the memory comes in the middle of the night The sensation of a body up against you, warm and right The distance over time from that moment until now And the desperate, lonely ache it still causes you somehow Cover your face, cover your face, cover your face Cover your face, cover your face, cover your face, cover your face Where is your home, where are you known? How can you know, how you grow? You live in fear, without your dear ones So shed your tears for this sad year Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely Alone Oh for the nurses sick with fright Oh for the little ones, whose future is bright Oh for the nona whose grandkids don’t come ‘round The inmates burying the dead in the ground Cover your face, cover your face, cover your face Cover your face, cover your face, cover your face, cover your face Cover your face, cover your face, cover your face Cover your face, cover your face, cover your face

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released April 19, 2024

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Natalie Inga
Calgary, AB

Puts the pen to the page, the melody to the thought, and joy in asking life's big questions.

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