Kirsty Heggie For My Man (piano)2020

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"Strange Blue Light
An omen in
The Gloaming Light
Like the ghostly gas glow below a flame
Strange blue light
Enchantment yet 
Such clarity 
So close and yet so far for me."


I should have written this as Roelle Blue.
It definitely brought me back to RB.

The story behind this one:
My Blood Mother Maria
Asked me to write a song called Strange Blue Light.
I met her in my mid twenties after being estranged since age 4.
She played and sang in a similar way to me.
I never told her about Roelle Blue.
We were composing similar melodies, using similar language, enchanted by similar things, and yet we had been apart all our lives.
Life is very Strange. Spooky indeed.

Kirsty Heggie: Strange Blue Light

You've got the dirt on everyone's lives
You watch them fall to make you rise
My, Little Girl
You are mistaken.
You say the speck of dust in your eyes
Is gettin' bigger, it's no surprise
You cause a shake
But when you're shook, 
You're shakin.

What makes you tick, 
It's not the time
To be tickin' boxes in your mind
Of things you think will get you more respected
You never did like crossing lines
You never like to appear unkind
But that just makes you feel more disconnected.

Oh Who
Oh who 
who's got
Who's Got the juice
On you?

Speck Of Dust (proverbs) Wav

"You say I'm a slave to love
You say I'll never stop and I'll never have enough
You say I'd break my own God damn heart
I say 
Some of us, it's true, will die for their art."

Slave To Love

Kirsty Heggie: Red Red Rose (Robert Burns)

"You're Lovely
My Lovely
I think you're so cool.
You're sharpness and softness can still make me drool.
But I've got this self-doubt, not out-grown in school
Is it weakness or neurosis?
I think it's pretty cruel.

Kirsty Heggie: Neurosis (Lullabye "For My Man."):

"Save some whisky for my angel
If she's even really there
Down it quickly I'm so fragile
My hope evaporated air
Mood is wavering 
From the highest 
to the lowest measure:
My spirit's drunk
on Angel's Share."

Kirsty Heggie: Angel's Share

Inspired by Joan Baez more than any other of the many artists who have interpreted this song, I weave a unique tapestry of sound with incisive finger picking and a warbling folk voice that brings a sense of warning, which is the original sense of this song.

House Of The Rising Sun (COVER)

My Favourite Girl

If You're Lucky

FOR THE SAKE OF LISTENING

1: The Sound Of Shattering

"Well she has just barely woken
But the world has already spoken
IT CRIES, IT CRIES:
Offer me something, now you rise!

Well she feels like she is choking
In a story of her making
But her Maker will not let her die
She cries, she cries
TELL ME WHY SHOULD I RISE?

Well she says she was just joking
Now in the bathroom she is smoking
Out a window that got broken 
From the drunks that throw stones.
.......
Many who are given
Shelter from the cold nights
Burn with a restless fever
And burn their houses to the ground
And when all that's left is the wreckage
They'll break the last breakable thing
For the sake of listening
To the sound of shattering
And for the sake
Of it mattering.
_________________________________

2: The Fugitive

Well he's pacing round the station
He's remarkably quite patient
For his favourite kind of patron 
To come along.

And when they do he's a sensation with his candid explanation 
Of why each man should pay him just to get along

Wel he's a genius of persuasion and he drains them like a raisin
Of any doubts or any reason they may think helping him is wrong.

He's a high-class begar
He's a loner with a habit
Fallen from the heights of a perfect

He's on the run
He's living rough.
Now's not the time for falling in love.."

3. Invisible Man
"Tell me how do you find an invisible man
They tell me I'm out of my mind
I know that I can.

Tell me how do you find someone who spends his life drifting
Far beyond the lines.
Far beyond the times..?

Felt so naked in his company
Always felt he could see through me
Like a haunted family
They always seem to come for me."

4. CUNT

"I let go again
It felt so fucking good.
I didn't want to lie
So I told you.
You said
WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR
YOU'RE SUCH A FUCKING CUNT
you could've stuck the knife in more
But the blade was blunt.

ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING...."

5. STORMCHASER BABY

You'll always be a Stormchaser Baby
So go die for El Reno
Be swept off by amor
I'll bury you in el rio
By those springs that I adore.
...
I just watch it ripping lives apart
A demon with a reckless heart
But oh how you love to watch her dance
Everytime a second chance
You'll always be a stormchaser 
Baby."

6.   2 In A Mess

Two in a mess
Not even a bed
And one of em said
It's over
Two in a mess, is it better than one?
At least there were laughs, at least there was sun
Two in a mess Not even a bed
And one of em said
It's over, it's over
I'm sober."

7. Battery
I was full of fog and vitamin D
Nursing a headache from drinking at sea
When he met me.

He was full of storys he nearly
He carried a bag, inside was a dead battery
We spoke about medicine and chemistry.

Are you gona be the one that brings me to life
Am I gona be the one that brings me to life?
Make me happy 
Re-charge my battery

8. LAZY

well, they call me lazy and they call me slow
They call me lazy and they call me small
They call me lazy but they call me beautiful
And they call you Mr Right
I wouldn't listen to your radio
There's poison in the waves
I wouldn't go out to the clubs at night
Everybody just gets in your face
I wouldn't stay up on the internet
There's poison in the words we say
I'm gonna lie down in the woods at night
Least nobody gets in my way.

9. Date With The Knife

So the surgeon's kindof into my music
He says he can help me with my pin-up poster
All he wants is a contract
And for him and I to get a little closer
he says
Keep on seeing your girlfriend
She's got the hips that the tabloids measure
I said
You know she's more than a ticket
She's my organ donor with her stolen treasure.














thank you to Debbie Dow for photography.
Thank you to Ian Wooly for production
"FOR THE SAKE OF LISTENING/TO THE SOUND OF SHATTERING." album from 2016      50% of proceeds from this album go towards Crisis Charity, Songs aimed to bring awareness to people living unsettled and disturbed lives, due to personal, social or cultural issues.

Roelle Blue: CRISIS CHARITY FUNDRAISER FULL ALBUM: For The Sake Of Listening.

The album opens with Another Broken Heart, 
But Roelle Blue delivers is with smooth one-liners, pizazz and punch.
She's added the sound of seventh's and rhythmical strumming that gives us the feeling she could be a pop, rock, or jazzy diva. Still protects her artistic sentiments and still pronouncing her words more than your average Jill.

Similiar themes to the album before. Magnetism towards destructive forces and people and a desire to learn and study situations introspectively. There are accounts of Pilgrimage, which was mostly walked as an agnostic, with glimpses of Faith and Dialogue with an angelic figure - Gloria. Gloria gives a sweetness to the voice and a message of hope on a personal and collective level. Roelle Blue responds directly to Gloria's innocence with a dark and sneering cynicism towards annoying preacher figures, but also admits in bluesy, wicked confessional tone: "hey mama, got the devil on my back. I traded my good life for a black sack. I traded my castle for a shack, traded my bed for a haystack."
But finishes with "But I know something that the devil don't know..."
And her answer: "Only good can come from zero."
There is an admittance of seeking self-annihilation to build oneself from the bottom up.
Roelle Blue has swagger and sass, drawn through passing through rough terrain and shady unknown taverns with nothing but smiles, applauds and nods of approval from even the dull-eyed and musically uninclined. 
She has walked the Pilgrimage de Santiago a second time, this time alone, camping wild, bathing in rivers, drinking Sangria, enjoying long talks with pilgrims. Drinking Sangria sends her weepy and delirious. 
She is only good for playing her guitar and fawning at everyone, then retreating in an embarassed manner while people ask for another song.
She can only return to her feeling as an outcast, as a drifter, as a minstrel of sorts. She wears clothing to hide the shape of her body - whether to cast away admiration or judgement. She feels herself to be like Jackeroe, the cross-dressing heroine who saves her lover from the war. Roelle Blue saves the hearts of drowning men and lost and lonely ladies like herself.

Roelle Blue -  Gloria Part 2.0

The Sunlight Collective - Roelle Blue - 10 Gloria Part 1

The album opens with Another Broken Heart, 
But Roelle Blue delivers is with smooth one-liners, pizazz and punch.
She's added the sound of seventh's and rhythmical strumming that gives us the feeling she could be a pop, rock, or jazzy diva. Still protects her artistic sentiments and still pronouncing her words more than your average Jill, but she's got that Americana blues feeling in her bones and has been listening to her mentor who seeks to pull her out of her misery-guts mentality and musicality.

Similar themes to the album before: 
A Magnetic Pull towards destructive forces, the Unknown, Adventure, Retreat, musical and lyrical revelation, leading to a Showcase to Society

There is a desire to learn and study situations introspectively, then present her findings and articulate her experience to the world. There are accounts of Pilgrimage, which was mostly walked as an Agnostic, with glimpses of Faith and Dialogue with an Angelic figure - Gloria. Gloria gives a sweetness to the voice and a message of hope on a personal and collective level. 
"This greed, is our poverty.
It steals all our humility. (Gloria)

(Roelle Blue)
So I ask, so I ask
I ask for you to guide me
But i've heard people say Faith alone will only blind me,
Oh Wise Gloria, what do you see? When you look on me?
I'll keep watching the weather
taking it all so personally
I'll keep on counting feathers
Hoping they were meant for me..."

Roelle Blue responds directly to Gloria's innocence with a dark and sneering cynicism in part II 
towards annoying preacher figures who have put her off religion and in her blindness she has judged them without seeing their message for what it was.
She outrageously comments: You say Jesus is our saviour, but who the f*** is He?
There is a lack of understanding of what Jesus is and what he represents, there is a curiosity, but lack of connection followed by clumsy and rebellious, rage-filled arrogance.

 admits in bluesy, wicked confessional tone: "hey mama, got the devil on my back. I traded my good life for a black sack. I traded my castle for a shack, traded my bed for a haystack."
But finishes with "But I know something that the devil don't know..."
And her answer: "Only good can come from zero."
There is an admittance of seeking self-annihilation to build oneself from the bottom up.
Roelle Blue has swagger and sass, drawn through passing through rough terrain and shady unknown taverns with nothing but smiles, applauds and nods of approval from even the dull-eyed and musically uninclined. 
She has walked the Pilgrimage de Santiago a second time, this time alone, camping wild, bathing in rivers, drinking Sangria, enjoying long talks with pilgrims. Drinking Sangria sends her weepy and delirious. 
She is only good for playing her guitar and fawning at everyone, then retreating in an embarassed manner while people ask for another song.
She can only return to her feeling as an outcast, as a drifter, as a minstrel of sorts. She wears clothing to hide the shape of her body - whether to cast away admiration or judgement. She feels herself to be like Jackeroe, the cross-dressing heroine who saves her lover from the war. Roelle Blue saves the hearts of drowning men and the lost and alienated waifs who feel misunderstood and over-sensitive in an all-consuming society.

Roelle Blue - The Bliss Of Solitude

Scottish Singer & Songstress,
Hybrid Genres, Multi-instrumentalist. 
Rapper, writer, spoken word, musical storytelling
Maker of medicinal melodies, and muse-icle storytelling
Local Events organiser and MC: Beatnik Supper.

Other Names: Roelle Blue (now not in use) 
Phoenix A Cappella
StarK
Gentle-Lady Savage
Moth Nyx.

Kirsty Heggie

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