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Prelude (Can We Be Bad)

from Songs For Nora Tobias by Julia Gray

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Can we be bad?
Not some cartoonish crazy, or manhating mad.
Maybe it’s not so easy
To paint a picture in more colours than black and white and red
But there’s a palette-full of others, that could be used instead

Can we be cruel
Complex and conflicted
Break every rule that the writers have scripted
The evil that men do can women do as well
Or should that be as badly who can tell

Aaah

We could be bad
Not to say we’re supposed to
But there's a choice to be had
We could if we chose to
You could paint a picture in black and white and pink
But that picture could be bigger
Don't you think

Ahh (4 note descending) - nothing in the last verse except ask yourself

Can we be bad

I could be bad
Doesn't mean I'm not sorry
Doesn't mean I'm not sad
To have caused you such worry
I guess I just invite you to consider what I do
Ask yourself hon what you would have done if it had been you

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from Songs For Nora Tobias, released June 8, 2018

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Julia Gray is an author and contemporary singer-songwriter based in London. To date she has released five albums - three with the trip-hop collective Second Person and two solo albums. Influenced by the singer-songwriters of the 1970s onwards, such as Kate Bush, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell and Carole King, she places a focus on complex, nuanced lyrics and subtle, emotive storytelling. ... more

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