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World Traveller

from In Technicolor by Miss Emily Brown

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World Traveller

I’m a world traveller, there’s nowhere I’ve been
I’ve seen brothers and sisters and kites in the wind
I’ve seen mittens on strings - what a good thing to do
because things can go missing, I’ve heard of a few.

So please never lose me like you lose your cool,
never leave me stranded up high on a telephone wire
from London is calling, a button is desperately hanging on

By a thread of a dream my great-grandmother wove
when she dreamed me and you up. She dreamed up our souls.
She went hard through the night against men with machines
against living and dying, what all of it means.

She taught us to travel, she taught us to dream
and here we are in great cities attempting great things
and all that we have is our will and our thoughts
when the strangest of feelings come up we feel crazy, we feel lost.

Never lose me like you lose your cool,
never leave me stranded up high on a telephone wire
from London is calling, my brother is desperately hanging on.

It’s like I said, I have travelled the world
and there’s no place that I’ve been that I never heard
the sound of my heart beating and seen my own face
like the face of a child hangs above a staircase.

Oh, please never hang me up like shoes on a wire
but wire me all of your fears and desires.
Mittens on strings are such fortunate things
like babies need mothers, like people need their friends to ring them up.

So please never lose me like you lose your cool,
never leave me stranded up high on a telephone wire
from London is calling, a button is desperately hanging on.

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from In Technicolor, released January 30, 2010
Written and performed by Miss Emily Brown
Fiddle by Hannah Epperson

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Miss Emily Brown British Columbia

Canadian performing artist Miss Emily Brown weaves together words and sound with the precision of a knitting spider. Nominated for a 2010 Canadian Folk Music Award for Pushing the Boundaries, a CBC Radio 3 Bucky Award for Best New Artist and put forward for the 2010 Polaris Prize, Miss Brown impossibly combines found instruments with her unmistakable voice. ... more

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