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Nights of Songs.

 

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By Cindy Dell.

They come and go, the nights of songs,
with ebb and flow, forever on.
They fill me up, they overflow
into my waking hours.

I stir and dream, I pitch and turn,
In fits and starts, I crash and burn.
I freeze then boil, I swoon and sweat,
inside a song not finished yet.

A carousel spins in my head,
and swirls ‘round my lyric bed,
with melodies that line my night.
I fluff each phrase, I pillow fight.

My body aches. I curse and moan.
The night becomes a battle zone.
It’s like a lake, deep and profound,
the kind that keeps the ones it drowns.

I sleepwalk through dark corridors,
and music seeps from every door,
dreaming complex symphonies.
jigs and reels, epiphanies…

I dream of words while I’m awake,
lines will come but more I ache.
Until the next wave finally rolls,
the words right off my tongue.

The phantom sounds fill up my ears,
I dream my life in music years.
Don’t wake me up, it’s where I’m from,
Where I belong, inside the song…

 

 

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Cindy DellBorn and raised in Ontario, Canada, Cindy Dell had rural beginnings in an artistic and musical family. Both parents were piano teachers, and Cindy and her sisters received classical training in violin, cello, and piano at a young age. At 13, Cindy bought herself a guitar and started to write poems and songs. She picked up the bass along the way and was a founding member of the all-girl band Tin Angel (The IUDs) in Toronto who went on to be signed to Atlantic Records in New York with producer Jack Douglas. The self-titled album was released worldwide and received airplay all over the planet. Since then, Cindy has been making music from Miami to New York to southern Ontario on her own and with various bands. She has put out four independent CDs with The Baladins, Janes Street (Women at Work), and the Blue Rubies (Home Ground), and her first solo CD: Heart of this House. Her most recent solo CD is ‘Gathering Tales’.

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