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Grand View Drive

from Grand View Drive by Nicolette Aubourg

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Inspired by a street in the Hollywood Hills

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Grand View Drive
(words & music by Nicolette Aubourg © 1987-1992

Find me a place where time is standing still,
like the taunting silence before a storm,
scanning the wasteland’s boned submission;
the formidable repose through transition.

When did we learn that time is the enemy
and try to transcend it and try to forget?
Resentment can only steal time from the burdened,
and even now with our aspirations, we’re forced to choose.

And here we are watching the city,
spread like a hawk from sky to sky,
and every thigh heaves the night-lights
through the Palisades, into the bay.

If we’d made the choice somewhere in the past,
would we still be trying to hold onto the second hand?
Now we feel the beat, but it’s our bodies’ own,
trying to learn a lesson in a foreign land.

And here we are watching the city,
spread like a hawk from sky to sky,
and every thigh heaves the night-lights
through the Palisades, into the bay.

I feel your touch;
so strange but I’ve known you,
sweet as the night on Grand View Drive;
sweet as your touch on Grand View Drive,
and I know I’ve known you before.

You and I will be travellers
on her every vein;
you and I will wear the thorns
of her domain;
we’ll wear the thorns of her domain…

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from Grand View Drive, released May 25, 2002
Vocal & background vocals: Nicolette Aubourg
Acoustic guitars: Nicolette Aubourg
Bass: Doug Baker
Drums & bell-tree: Neil Sebba
Electric guitar & backwards solo: Frank Simes
Tambourine: Bob Sheehan
Words & music by Nicolette Aubourg © 1987 – 1992
©(P) 2002 Syresham Music/Nicolette Aubourg (ASCAP)
Recorded & mixed by Steve Holroyd
Produced by Steve Holroyd, Bob Sheehan & Nicolette Aubourg

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Nicolette Aubourg Los Angeles, California

#CEASEFIRENOW! Singer-guitarist Nicolette Aubourg was born in South Africa where she studied music and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and English Literature before moving to Los Angeles. Nicolette has released three studio albums and nine singles. Her songwriting covers a variety of subjects including social justice and she has won many songwriting awards. ... more

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