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Belong Here

by Tessa Paige

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1.
Wyoming 02:58
You spoke of grand journeys and the high peaks of Wyoming But who will take me there when you’re down and feeling lonely I’ve only got my skin and my mind to be your friend Oh darling let’s not let all of this end I know you think the tall pines will contain all of the answers But what about when the storms come and distinguish your bright lantern You know I’m standing in the plains, my arms wide like the land Oh darling, can’t you try and understand Oh, oh, you left me there at the rodeo Oh, oh if you let me in, I won’t let go So if I’m just a woman who holds little but her charms Tell me darling should I find another shoulder upon which to place my arm? I can be out of line a minute or two But darling, don’t you think that’s just a little cruel? Oh, oh you left me there at the rodeo Oh, oh if you let me in, I won’t let go If you let me in, I won’t let go
2.
Belong Here 03:07
Like a fork in the road my mind splits in two A path for myself and a path that adds you And to venture one way means I forgo the other With no certain measure my heart will recover Oh, oh I met you in Charlotte and right then you kissed me And the world of the North becomes one of old remedies And the diner off the interstate is our sanctuary And I know I belong, but I don’t belong here And the calendar beckons cold January But we’re warm in your bed and the air smells like spring Yet I know I can’t trick the winds that will carry me And I know I belong, but I don’t belong here With a weary kind of style we learn ourselves anew As we comb through the streets for all our common truths And like the fog the questions start to hover Do we go back to being friends or stay lovers? Oh, oh And the calendar beckons cold January But we’re warm in your bed and the air smells like spring Yet I know I can’t trick the winds that will carry me And I know I belong, but I don’t belong here The tides between our minds start to recede And we filter the wounds right from our memories Yet we drive backwards through the scene in your old beat up Cherokee And I know I belong, but I don’t belong here
3.
Glacier 03:29
There was blue in the sky before you took me down Before you took me down and let me melt away There was blue in the sky before you took me down And watched me melt away I moved slowly but I was strong And you knew the stones I carried Traces of a life unearthed But you've forgotten what I've buried Fossils of a former time A flag for you to carry To redeem the rising tide There was blue in the sky before you took me down Before you took me down and let me melt away There was blue in the sky before you took me down And watched me melt away A bold traveler on my own Yet my weaknesses you studied You charted out my fate But you did nothing to protect me And you sit inside your homes Your screen projecting my tragedy A million years of life overthrown There was blue in the sky before you took me down Before you took me down and let me melt away There was blue in the sky before you took me down And watched me, and watched me, and watched me, and watched me, And oh
4.
Lullaby 03:11
Candlelight, you are the soft glow of night And here you are with me and stars in your eyes Rest your head, and I’ll conjure spirits of sleep Magic is just spells of two souls meant to be Ride your way back down on a lone satellite Let constellations guide you through each pin of light The soft glow of night You are I are bound by the deep universe And all is dust between you and the earth So rest for now, and orbit beyond onyx seas And turn back ‘round when you want to return to me Ride your way back down on a lone satellite Let constellations guide you through each pin of light Candlelight, you are the soft glow of night
5.
Forest Song 02:56
And the rising of the moon set the world on fire It dances through the land and trees straight to your own pyre That you built in the cold night while I was away And you gave up before you saw the light of day And the muddy tracks I’ve made show that I’ve wandered from your love But the constellations turn me so I crave you in my blood And I run through the velvet darkness that surrounds To the place where you’ve lain your tired body down How you look into my eyes with a staleness in your gaze But the time is now to resurrect the love we’ve made So come take my hand and we’ll run straight through the pines And we’ll dance in the flames ‘til once again you’ll become, Once again you’ll become mine
6.
Border 04:25
The desert has no mercy for those With well-intentioned souls And what you’ll find on the other side Are just tales of old The sun was strong, her bones were weak She couldn’t find a thing to eat But she carried on despite the hurt Across the sand she dragged her feet The coyotes threw her in a truck And told her with a little luck she’d reach the state line soon But she fell ill along the way, and they abandoned her without delay And left her to the moon How many have we never found? We’ll never know, we’ll never count The true cost is a damning one Our hitman is the desert sun She lay next to a dried sage bush And closed her eyes to let the night take her through Her body stayed many days clouded by the dusty haze Her family never knew How many have we never found? We’ll never know, we’ll never count The true cost is a damning one Our hitman is the desert sun What would you do for a starving child? What would you do after looking in his eyes? March through the sand in the blinding light? What would you do after looking in his eyes? Tell me as a mother you wouldn’t risk The ultimate sacrifice
7.
The night that you drove out there were black clouds in the sky And the back roads seemed to shimmer like the soft look in your eye Before the rain, oh before the rain There was nothing but to ride home on a long train from New York And the bolts of lightning tried to cage me in as the earth shook Before the rain, oh before the rain But my mind was already crossing the state border in your car And we were singin’ with the west wind as it moved in towards the mountains Oh, why do I always seem to sway When the calling of my heart’s like the rumbling of a train Oh, why does it always seem to happen this way That my dreams get flooded in the Colorado rain Was the night when I realized that I gave away my heart To a boy who couldn’t keep it from a million miles apart Before the rain, oh before the rain But the land doesn’t know the difference between right and fair And any love new like the dew will soon return to air Before the rain, oh before the rain But the skies didn’t know that I would fight the great dark clouds Until they silenced my claims to make it to the mountains Oh why do I always seem to sway When the calling of my heart’s like the rumbling of a train Oh why does it always seem to happen this way That my dreams get flooded in the Colorado rain Oh, oh
8.
I walked outside to smoke in the air Saw fire on the mountainside reflected in the glass Thought I should run before this place burns down In the hazy afternoons you were somewhere in my dreams Between dusk and the soft mirage of the morning But you didn’t have a face or mouth to speak out of You were waiting for me on the brim of a song I couldn’t yet sing If I’d only seen your eyes The dryness of the land cracked like the lines in my hands in the sunlight Fingertips outstretched one towards the east The other towards the Rockies But the spires and spines of rocks were signaling another direction And crooked like me I couldn’t see that they were channeled towards you Sayin', darling you’re my kind You're my kind You came right in time

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released December 3, 2019

Tessa Paige - Vocals, fiddle, guitar
Scott Miller - Lead guitar
Frank Sacramone - Percussion
Joe Bentley - Bass
Zan Berry - Cello

Songs written by Tessa Paige
Recorded by Bradford Krieger @ Big Nice Studio, Lincoln, RI
Mixed and Mastered by Frank Sacramone @ Frank S Productions
Album design by Scott Miller

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Tessa Paige Providence, Rhode Island

Tessa Paige is a Providence-based multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who aims to compose within the singer-songwriter tradition of decades past while exploring themes of present day.
Her sound is nostalgic, warm, and introspective, and her lyrics often tell stories featuring landscapes that influence the narratives of her songs.
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