Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Music # 13 Scar EP Missy Higgins

Great follow up to Missy Higgins first EP with album to follow in September. This Victorian Triple J Unearthed winner has an amazing voice... I've previously compared her to Tiddas and also Frente!!
'Scar' is the single on the charts with Missy playing a Piano thats falling apart! She will soon be touring and playing with a band to follow up the recording sessions in LA which were part of her Unearthed prize.

Scar
He left a card, a bar of soap and a scrubbing brush
next to a note That said "use these down to your bones"
And before I knew I had shiny skin
and it felt easy being clean like him
I thought "this one knows better than I do"
A triangle trying to squeeze through a circle
He tried to cut me so I'd fit
And doesn't that sound familiar?
Doesn't that hit too close to home?
Doesn't that make you shiver; the way things could've gone?
And doesn't it feel peculiar when everyone wants a little more?
And so that I do remember to never go that far,
Could you leave me with a scar?
So the next one came with a bag of treats,
she smelled like sugar and spoke like the sea
And she told me don't trust them, trust me
Then she pulled at my stitches one by one,
looked at my insides clicking her tongue and said
"This will all have to come undone"
A triangle trying to squeeze through a circle
She tried to cut me so I'd fit
And doesn't that sound familiar?
Doesn't that hit too close to home?
Doesn't that make you shiver; the way things could have gone?
And doesn't it feel peculiar when everyone wants a little more?
And so that I do remember to never go that far,
Could you leave me with a scar?
I think I realized just in time,
although my old self was hard to find
You bathe me in your finest wine but I'll never give you mine
'Cos I'm a little bit tired of feeling like I'll be the bad fruit nobody buys
Tell me, did you think we'd all dream the same?
And doesn't that sound familiar?
Doesn't that hit too close to home?
Doesn't that make you shiver; the way things could have gone?
And doesn't it feel peculiar when everyone wants a little more?
And so that I do remember to never go that far,
Could you leave me with a scar?
Could you leave me with a scar?

The pain and learning of relationships, of hopes and of self discovery.

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