Blood Brother from New Ways by Leif Vollebekk
"There was a period of a few months where I listened to nothing but Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak. I couldn't get enough of that rock n roll shuffle. And so when I wrote this piano ballad, I guess I just kept hearing these polyrhythms over it. I played it to Olivier and it ended up being this whole other thing. Not a ballad at all.
Back in high school, I think the first song I ever played with a band was Last Nite by the Strokes. That was in a half-empty high school cafeteria in Ottawa. But it felt like such a release. You don't forget that feeling. I think that snuck in there on this song.
I was in Newcastle, playing a gig with Margaret Glaspy and she covered that Paul Simon tune with the line "My love for you is so overpowering, I'm afraid I'm going to disappear." Well, when she sang that line, it was like a bolt of lightning. I wrote this song a few weeks later." - Leif Vollebekk
Tracklist
| 6. | Blood Brother | 4:23 |
Lyrics
-- Lyrics --
Coincidence is piling up, don’t know if it’s a sign
Sometimes you got no choice in the matter
You gotta shake the tree of time
You see I finally found another that I’d like to introduce
Do you know what I’m thinking, can you tell me who I am
Do you think that I am doomed?
You’re my blood brother
What am I gonna do
You’re my blood brother
She’s just like me and you
I really fell hard for you baby, I won’t fall for that again
With my mind twisted and turned in all directions til I don’t know who I am
You know your lips whenever they kiss me it’s like a gun against my skin
But if ever they cut you down with a dagger, only I would feel it going in
She’s my blood brother
What am I gonna do
She’s my blood brother
What am I gonna do
My life is on the radio, they’re saying it’s a dream
I can tell that the lights are fading but it’s just a change of scene
You know sometimes it’s like
I’m weightless and it’s just like I ain’t here
In fact for my next performance,
I’m gonna plain disappear
She’s my blood brother
It’s just like I ain’t here
She’s my blood brother
I’m gonna plain disappear
It’s just like I ain’t here
I’m gonna plain disappear
Credits
Leif Vollebekk - guitars, bass, synth, vocals
Olivier Fairfield - drums
License
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Canadian singer-songwriter Leif Vollebekk blends Carl Jung’s musings and Wittgenstein’s love of language with lyrical poetry on Revelation. Rooted in introspection, its 11 tracks evoke Leonard Cohen’s narrative style, Nick Drake’s intimacy, and The Eagles' clarity, weaving themes of nature, mortality, and spirituality into a meditation on life's impermanence.