Jessica Pratt - Streets of Mine

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  1. David Sandgren Zetterlind said:

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    So I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, I couldn't find an active forum for lyrics transcription but if this isn't the place for this and someone knows of one I would love it if you sent me that way!

    Here's the song : http://soundcloud.com/birthrecords/j...treets-of-mine (this is a legit upload by the record company as a sample)

    So I found out about this wonderful song a few weeks ago, it's part of Jessica Pratt's debut album Night Faces which was released on nov 13. Understandably I haven't been able to find any lyrics for it yet so I thought I'd try and transcribe them, however she has a very unique way of pronouncing things which has made it slightly hard for me, perhaps one or some of you guys could try and help me get a proper lyric out from it. Here's what I've got, I've marked the places that I'm really unsure about but I'm sure there are more things that need to be corrected!

    Someone may have called, my line
    from down below
    When shadows are to find
    the traces, [back to woe ?]

    In this town
    I walk by your door
    things change
    I can't see you anymore
    and you go the places that we've gone
    before

    never changing

    Oh the light
    in my life
    is fading

    heaven high
    [load grand tide?]
    remaining

    now it's midnight
    the twilight
    [the evening on?]

    and we fly
    ever higher
    in these streets of mine

    And these streets, were our streets
    and these streets, were mine.
     
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    bluejacket said:

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    One line's still got me scratching my head; but you got most of it

    Here's the song : http://soundcloud.com/birthrecords/j...treets-of-mine (this is a legit upload by the record company as a sample)


    Someone may have called, my line
    from down below
    Where the shadows ought to find
    the traces that do flow

    In this town.
    I walk by your door,
    things change.
    I can't see you anymore
    and you go the places that we've gone
    before

    never changing

    All the lights in my life
    are fading

    Heaven high/ [hide?]
    [load grand tide?]
    remaining

    Now it's midnight
    the twilight;
    the evening art

    and we fly
    ever higher
    in these streets of mine

    And these streets, were our streets
    and these streets, were mine
     
  3. David Sandgren Zetterlind said:

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    Thanks for the help! This is definitely closer, some of it still doesn't feel like it's 100% though. "The evening art" makes alot more sense in the sentence, though to me it doesn't sound like she's saying art, you might be right though, again her accent doesn't make things super easy. "Load grand tide" really pains me, just doesn't make sense to me, even if it sounds like it's somewhat correct. I was even thinking about it before going to sleep yesterday and I thought it might be something like "heaven's high load drowns time", unfortunately upon listening today that really didn't fit that well at all. Starting to consider trying to get in contact with her instead.
     
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    bluejacket said:

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    Hope you can get in contact - it might prevent more sleepless nights !

    Just had another listen

    Is it 'pulled my line from down below' not 'called'

    I am sure when you know, that tricky line will be obvious.....
     
  5. David Sandgren Zetterlind said:

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    Yeah, if I can't figure it out soon I'll look into a way of getting in contact, or perhaps there's even lyrics in the album booklet, who knows in this age of Spotify. 'Pulled' sounds good as well, I was thinking perhaps she meant it the way a prompter calls out the line at a theatre or an opera house when someone loses their place in the script so 'called' made sense to me. 'Pulled' does make sense in it's own way though!