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All That Running Around

from All That Running Around by Bijou Noir

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I wasn’t expecting to feel this isolated while living somewhere as beautiful as Andalusia, Spain. Even as an outsider you can see the deep traditions that bind people together — and set you apart. One day I hear a group of men singing jaunty songs with complex and haunting harmonies. I venture downhill, following the music, and find they’re practicing for an annual festival that happens in the spring. They’re excited to tell me about it, and seem genuinely interested in sharing it. But I will have to leave by the time the festival happens.

Once a few months earlier, in another country, I struck up a conversation with a local as I was walking. He asked where I was from, and I hesitated. If we’d have been in Minneapolis, I could have said Nokomis or if we were in Minnesota I could have said Minneapolis, but we were so far from all that. I didn’t have a landmark. He playfully mocked me, like, How could you not know where you’re from? I felt a bit lost. And, anyway, I’m here now.

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I used to think to be all by myself would make me stronger
But all that running around it only wore me down
So when it came time to get mine and take flight I was unsound
I could reach no height and I ran aground
I ran aground

The complicated question of where you're from
Depends on where we are when you ask
Doesn't really matter where I'm from
Every time I lift off I land

I used to think to be all by myself would make me stronger
But all that running around it only wore me down
So when it came time to get mine and take flight I was unsound
I could reach no height and I ran aground
I ran aground

I am from a long line of lonely men
With deep set eyes and secretive hearts
Far too familiar with abandonment
Nothing special, set completely apart

I used to think to be all by myself would make me stronger
But all that running around it only wore me down
So when it came time to get mine and take flight I was unsound
I could reach no height and I

I ran aground
Oh, to the ground
I could reach no height and I
I ran aground
Straight to the ground
The stony ground
I could reach no height and I

I can only see you in stark relief
All the details obscured
I never seen what your mama seen and I
Ain’t heard the voices you heard

I used to think to be all by myself would make me stronger
But all that running around it only wore me down
(It wore me down)
So when it came time to get mine and take flight I was unsound
I could reach no height and I

I used to think I could reach those heights but I ran aground
I used to think I could
I used to think that I could
I used to think I could reach those heights but I ran aground
I used to think I could
But I ran aground

I ran aground
Straight to the ground now
I could reach no height and I
I ran aground
Straight to the ground
The stony ground
I could reach no height and I
I ran aground

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from All That Running Around, released May 14, 2021
bijounoir.co / givetake.life

Lyrics, vocals, music, electric ukulele by Augustus Watkins
Strings by Ray Minge
Mixed by Garrett Neal
Mastered by Oli Morgan at Abbey Road Studios
Photo by Cait Greeley
Artwork by J. Lexvold

GT025S1 © 2021 Bijou Noir. ℗ 2021 Fraternal Order of Warlocks (ASCAP).

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Alt-pop singer-songwriter.

Moody electro productions, big choruses.

Bijou Noir is a genre-defying mix of intelligent pop, post-punk, new wave, electronic, and indie rock, with a strong lyrical center. ... more

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