By Miranda Martini and Bryan Medina, 2015.

Lyrics:

Hold up, I think I have seen your face before
Buy me that drink and I will let you know
You got that look like trouble at my door 

No I'm not shy, boy I been up in your head
I know that you have been looking for a friend
And you know I don't have somewhere to be instead

Stay up all night, you don't 
Have to face the dawn 
(Repeat)

Stay up all night, you don't have to go home
Stay up all night, you don't have to sleep alone
(Repeat)

Cool sheets, cold wine; it has been one of those years
I have done this so many times, I know how to disappear
When morning comes, you won’t know that I was here

Stay up all night, you don't 
Have to face the dawn
(Repeat)

Stay up all night, you don't have to go home
Stay up all night, you don't have to sleep alone
(Repeat)

I know that you're holding on to someone else
Forget her name, yeah the story sells itself
No one can tell we're just two empty shells

Hold up, I think I've seen your face before
Buy me that drink and I will let you know
You've got that look like trouble at my door

Stay up all night, you don't 
Have to face the dawn 
(Repeat)

Stay up all night, you don't have to go home
Stay up all night, you don't have to sleep alone
(Repeat until end)

All Night

By Miranda Martini and Signe Håland, 2015.

Lyrics:

Do you believe this is as good as life will get? 
I’m afraid of the years ahead 
And all the empty days that haven’t happened yet
I can’t pretend that we have never met
I can't go back

Do you believe that we could bring those flowers back?
I’m afraid of the life we’ve made
Afraid, but I don’t want to leave for greener grass 
I barely breathe, but I want us to last

Where is the golden place
We once promised to find
Where is the saving grace
We somehow left behind
I want it back right now
But it takes two to make a vow

Can you believe that we have pushed ourselves this far?
I’m afraid that the things we’ve said
Are now a living wound that runs too deep to scar
But how can you and I change who we are
We can’t go back

Where is the golden place
We once promised to find
Were is the saving grace
We somehow left behind
(Repeat)
I want it back right now
But it takes two to keep a vow

Do you believe I can’t see wanting someone else?
I was trying so hard to love you more 
I tried to love enough to make us well
But I can’t fix this thing all by myself
My love, goodbye

Two To Make A Vow

Interlude I (Spring)

By Miranda Martini, 2014.
Violin: Sharon Martin
Backing Vocals: Signe Marie Håland, Jennifer Kennedy, Jason Poulsen, Richard Skelt
Special thanks to Maaike Siegerist

Lyrics:

Your uncles and your aunts are driving home to Calgary
My sister learned how to crochet 
So she could make a special blanket just for you

Your tiny hands
Your downy head
Your dreaming eyes
We’re so excited to meet you

I can’t wait till you’re old enough to look at all the pictures
Of your cousin’s neighbour’s sisters
Who brought pies just for a reason to be there

For you
Your tiny hands
Your downy head
Your dreaming eyes
We’re so excited to meet you

I wonder who you are, little bundle spun of glass
A sticky-fingered lad or lass 
I would do anything, anything at all

For you
Your tiny hands
Your downy head
Your dreaming eyes
We’re so excited to meet you

For you (I wonder who you are, little bundle spun of glass)
Your tiny hands (A sticky-fingered lad or lass, I would do anything)
Your downy head (I wonder who you are, little bundle spun of glass)
Your dreaming eyes (A sticky-fingered lad or lass, I would do anything, anything)

We’re so excited to meet you 
We’re so excited to meet you 
We’re so excited to meet you, to meet you, to meet you, to meet you

I Wonder Who You Are

Interlude II (Autumn)

By Miranda Martini, 2014.
Violin: Sharon Martin

Lyrics:

What a long strange year it’s been
Hardly breathed since last December
One more night left to remember and drink it all away

What a long cold drive I’ve had
Where’s that 12-year scotch I gave you
Least that I could do was save you this night before the fade

But who will raise a toast
To one more glass and another year older
I’ll drink to that I suppose
Though god only knows just where the time goes

Spirit, what’s become of you
Not a friend and not a brother
Seems to me we lost each other the day we found ourselves

But drink with me this precious hour
We’ll hold our breath and cross our fingers
That what we had won’t vanish in the cinders when the clock strikes twelve

But who will raise a toast
To one more glass and another year older
I’ll drink to that I suppose
Though god only knows just where the time goes

A silence grows in the cracks in between
Who you were then and who you’ve become
I guess it’s my fault for hanging on to the past for too long
Maybe I’ll get it right this year

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my jo, for auld lang syne
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne

But who will raise a toast
To one more glass and another year older
I’ll drink to that I suppose
Though god only knows just where the time goes
Here’s to old wounds and new frustrations
Here’s to raised glasses and lowered expectations
I’ll drink to that I suppose 
Though god only knows just where the time goes
Where the time goes
Raise a toast

Raise A Toast

By Miranda Martini, 2014.
Double Bass: Will Harris
Violin: Sharon Martin
Special thanks to Maaike Siegerist

Lyrics:

Girly, girly
Yellow hair and curly
The times I used to hold you on my knee

I just want to see you, 
To see if you still look like me, 
To see if you are happy
So are you happy, birthday girl?

Smiling out of photos taken in the Eighties
You were only babies
But I guess I thought you'd know me all the same

Well I was just a kid then, but you know I loved your mother 
And I loved you and your brother
Wish I coulda given you more than my name

Girly, girly 
Yellow hair and curly
The times I used to hold you on my knee

I just want to see you, 
To see if you still look like me, 
To see if you are happy
So are you happy, birthday girl?

There were times in that first year 
I'd think, Maybe I could do this
Pushing strollers, washing soothers
I was strongest when I held you in my arms

And I'd swear I'd give up drinking
But the feeling never lasted
I was such a sorry bastard
How can I have hidden from you for so long?

Girly, girly 
Yellow hair and curly
The times I used to hold you on my knee

I just want to see you, 
To see if you still look like me, 
To see if you are happy
So are you happy, birthday girl

Don’t know if you mind my calling
But you know I saw which day was coming
And I got you a little something
Thought I might drop it by while I’m in town
Don’t know if you got my letters
But you know I’m living clean now
Almost seven years it's been now
And I still can’t tell where all the time has gone

Girly, girly
Yellow hair and curly
My little angel born on Father’s Day

What a woman you grew into
Your little boy looks just like me
You're beautiful and happy
So very happy, birthday girl

You’re happy, birthday girl

Birthday Girl

By Miranda Martini, 2015.
Double bass: Will Harris

Lyrics:

Candy
Is that all you have for me?
After 20 years and all the ways you grind me down

I remember one year
You took me up to Sunset Hill
We talked about the future as we looked out on the town

Every year it feels more like pretending
You smile for pictures and act like you can stand me
And you hand me a box of candy

Silence
I feel it haunting every room
I jump at every creaking floor and every closing door

Candy 
I can’t taste a thing no more
After 20 years of downing lies, what was it for?

Every year we’re that much more defeated
You take what’s left and paint over it with sweetness
Till beneath it’s only bleakness

Candy
Is that all you have to say?
Guess I know by now you’ll never have the guts to walk away

Candy

By Miranda Martini, 2015.

Lyrics:

I can feel it in my fingertips tonight is haunted 
Too cold, dressed as ninja babes like you’d wanted
You know where all the good parties are
When we’re cruising round in your boyfriend’s car

We’ve run out of things to talk about
But if this is the last time we better make it count

Ooh, kids rambling round
Ooh, making trouble on the town
Ooh, I feel an ending starting
But before the parting
Let’s have a scream this Halloween

Your mom thinks I’m such a good influence 
When we’re out all night in your boyfriend’s Benz
We used to just eat candy and stay in 
But sometime over summer break you made cooler friends

Now’s the time to say whatever’s left to say
I still adore you
Even though I bore you
I wish it could’ve turned out some other way

Ooh, kids rambling round
Ooh, making trouble on the town
Ooh, wasting our potential
Burning our credentials
Let’s have a scream this Halloween

Ooh, kids rambling round
Ooh, making trouble on the town
Ooh, I feel an ending starting
But before the parting
Let’s make ’em scream this Halloween

Halloween (Candy Part II)

By Miranda Martini, 2014.
Special thanks to Maaike Siegerist

Lyrics:

This house is your home now
Horizontal in a hospital bed
And now it's time for you to pack up and go where 
We can't follow you

I say I love you
And you say you love me very much, 
Even though you don’t remember my name
So I take your hand
While we all age in the smell of formaldehyde
And wait for the end

Tell me what you need my dear
My empathy swallows up my fear
Family lines the hallway now
And their tears mingle on the ground
It's been a long, long night

So that’s it, that’s goodbye
Don’t wanna stay here no more, I want to go home

The End

By Miranda Martini, 2014.
Drums: Steve Lodge
Special thanks to Maaike Siegerist

Lyrics:

I wish they could all be like that first day
When I met Yvonne
She kissed me and said, “Did you know it’s your birthday?”
And told me I'd make a wonderful blonde
I'd make a wonderful blonde

I need to be broken in gently
I need to be found
Oh please won't you let me down gently
On the warm and painted ground
On the warm, painted ground

I'm a tough nut to crack for sure
Seventeen, beautiful and insecure
I have been drifting, would you pull me to shore?
Oh, it's nothing another drink won't cure

Bobbing and weaving down on Davie
While all the church bells sound
Sunday and all the flags are waving
Patterns on the painted ground
On the warm painted ground

Remember how I used to dream of love
Now I’ve become the dream 
Basking in the golden glory of
Beautiful and seventeen
Beautiful and seventeen

Sweetheart won’t you take me in?
Take me home and tell me how I should begin
Write your imprint on my skin, and I’ll
Tell you I’ve had a wonderful birthday
Wish everyday could be my birthday 
I have had the most wonderful birthday
I’ve had a wonderful day

Birthday (Pride)

By Miranda Martini, 2015.
Drums: Steve Lodge
Special thanks to Maaike Siegerist

Lyrics:

Two hours to go till the fireworks
Spread out on a blanket in Prince’s Island Park
Some high school punk band has just begun to play

Black jeans, black shades, black turtleneck
The heat presses in as I press against your chest
Would anyone notice if we just slipped away?

I may be only sixteen
But I know what I want
If you can’t fuck it up while you’re young
When can you fuck it up?

Oh Canada!
If you don’t tell my parents
Then I won’t tell your parents
Oh Canada!
We stand on guard for thee

We run down the side streets and alleyways
I dig the old spare key out of its hiding place
The drunks stagger by us with their faces red and white

And you, my little accomplice
Will you fly the banner of making our own bliss
Writing out our own future against the crackling sky?

I may be only sixteen
But I know what I want
If you can’t fuck it up while you’re young
When can you fuck it up?

Oh Canada!
The fireworks resounding
My little heart is pounding
Oh Canada!
We stand on guard
We stand on guard
We stand on guard for thee
For thee

I may be only sixteen
But I know what I want
And if life doesn’t start here and now
Then when does it start?

Oh Canada!
Above the sky is breaking
Our bodies for the taking
Oh Canada!
The fireworks above us
And underneath the covers
Oh Canada!
We stand on guard
We stand on guard
We stand on guard for thee

Fireworks

A piece I wrote for a mobile rail game.

Miranda Martini, 2018

Train Heist

Chase!

Miranda Martini is a musician and writer based in Calgary, Canada. ﻿In August 2014, she collaborated with songwriter Kris Demeanor on original songs for Cheryl Foggo's award-winning play JOHN WARE REIMAGINED. Miranda also performed in the show, which recently had a successful second run at Edmonton's Workshop West Theatre in 2017. 

She has a Masters of Songwriting from Bath Spa University, where she wrote and recorded CALENDAR, an album exploring holidays and seasons.

When she's not busy working as part of the communications team for the Students' Association of Mount Royal University, Miranda acts as lead musician for Calgary Queer Church and sings in and sits on the board for Blend Vocal, a women's singing ensemble.

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