Free Single: Balloon

Thursday, September 22nd, 2016, Music Downloads, News.

 

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“The most substantial songs [on the album] are… innocently foreshadowed in the kiddy song “Balloon”, whose lesson is that it is all too easy to be careless and watch something joyful and treasured slip from your grasp, never to be recovered.” — Gerry Lipnowski, Montreal (early preview write-up)

Echo wrote this song, really. She lost her balloon and then asked me to sing a song about it. I improvised and this song was born. Together, we sang it for months before I brought it to the band. The rest is history.

 

BALLOON

there once was a balloon in a little girl’s hand
but she was not careful the balloon flew away
up high in the sky, up high, up high
she had to say goodbye to her balloon

there once was a balloon in a little boy’s hand
but he was not careful the balloon flew away
up high in the sky, up high, up high
he had to say goodbye to his balloon

if you want a balloon to hold in your hand
you’ve got to be careful it does not fly away
up high in the sky, up high, up high
or you’ll have to say goodbye to her balloon

oo-oo, uh-oh

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