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Be My Voice: A Live Album

by Xavier Cardriche

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1.
Playground (Live) 04:00
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PLAYGROUND You’re no stranger to a closed door How spirits move you down to the bare floor Clean it up, start again downtown Place yourself back at the Playground Ride it all out again (4x) Lights, camera, faster for the action All for simple corporate satisfaction Carousels never get dirty much Horses travel in a little bunch At the Playground Ride it all out again (4x) Beauty Mamas and Spinach-eating Daddies Checking the scene just for the babies Bustier c’mon on baby wear it out And Breezy kids never seem to figure out At the Playground Ride it all out again (8x) Oh, the stars are out tonight Yet the boys are in a fight at the playground And the dreams arranged for some It’s a quarter half-past-none at the playground Still you eat yourself to death Until there’s nothing much more left at the playground Ride it all out again (4x) 2013 © Xavier Cardriche Music
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The Riddle (Live) 03:38
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THE RIDDLE I’m finding all these rooms through my cellars, up my stairs And it’s hitting me so lovely that I’ll never know they’re there Wake me if I end up in a state of staring there ‘Cause anything quite new to me becomes a calm despair Well, Jonah told me something about a Riddle, about a Bear That climbed up to an apple tree just looking for a pear If you go out walking through the branches after wine What would you make of broken twigs & apples of the bitten kind If I’m a sheep in a field with a red dot on the side of me Just how am I suppose to live my life in vanity I’ll take a nap, walk ahead, maybe warm-up up to you Excuse me if I do not know what gender you cling to I’ve thought over a million times about time and tempement Or how to get inside someone and know of their intent Sometimes I just say nothing cause that speaks for me in tons And listen for the ways to get to you until I’ve won Until I’ve won Until I’ve won 2013 © Xavier Cardriche Music
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Needle and Thread (Live) 04:23
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NEEDLE AND THREAD Joan just get out of bed Just looking for the needle left out of the thread Be careful of the signs that the physic read Be careful of the stars left out in your head What time is it? How do you mean? Is the Bible read? How do you mean? Is my Granny dead? How do you mean? Have I lost me head? So does it seem... Have I lost my head? ...so does it seem… A oh ...and the thread is coming up to the end A oh ...and the thread is coming up to the end A oh ...and the thread is coming up to the end Poppa's preaching to the convinced 'cause he ain't got time for the sinners Keeping loose and baby’s flopping the nuts Making sure she’s going home with a winner Easy tiger won’t you come around I’ve got this Four Squared in my head And I’m rolling just a like you were thru How the rock has got a heavy hold on you What time is it? How do you mean? Is the Bible read? How do you mean? Is my Granny dead? How do you mean? Have I lost me head? So does it seem... Have I lost my head? ...so does it seem… A oh ...and the thread is coming up to the end A oh ...and the thread is coming up to the end A oh ...and the thread is coming up to the end What time is it? How do you mean? Is the Bible read? How do you mean? Is my Granny dead? Have I lost me head? Have I lost my head Have I lost my head Have I lost my head Have I lost my head ...and the thread is coming up to the end 2023 © Xavier Cardriche Music
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Try Claire (Live) 03:28
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TRY CLAIRE I’m sitting ‘bout this railroad track with a bite to eat Remembering the hour I called and woke you from your sleep You curled up from your bunker, left behind all things unfair And your brother found your letter noting all of your despair You climbed around my open arms with hopes of our affair I listened as the honoured man sang praises to you there You’ll keep your heart in focus spite yearning for a soul But I’ll be here for as long as you don’t go We drank the bottle, smoked the day We laughed, sneered and stared This town is full of no one, yet you don’t seem to care That time you broke your bearings swam across the Delaware Your feet swelled up, hands caught rough, it just hurts a little there But pain’s for folks who live to tell of caution and beware I watched as that ‘ole Poet man spoke poets to you there You’ll keep your heart in focus spite crying through the cold But I’ll love you just as long as you don’t go I’m kicking on this railroad track thinking of my sweet And listening to sparrows sings and how they plan like to meet I’ll stand up from this stone of lime and smell your cherry hair You left me once to what’s to keep you leaving me here bare So, I’ll go to sing of rights, of caution and beware And step over that soo man who tried to take you, Claire I’ll keep my heart in focus and walk the road alone But I’ll be here for as long as you don’t go I’ll watch you for as long as you don’t go I love you Claire, just know I didn’t go 2005 © Xavier Cardriche Music
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Talde / Too Late (Live) 06:10
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TARDE Miro la distancia , segunda vez aqui Parado alto cayéndome por ti Levantame, Ayudame a parar Ese infierno que tienes, es verdad Por ti, las palabras que escribí Camino y trabajo por llegar a ti Todo lo que tengo te lo ofreci No te importa, es tarde Tarde, para ti Shop long and hard to fit your smile That’s stretched ear to ear for a million miles You wore that green dress, stuck in my mind How you wore that green dress baby, the color of our demise Know you from a distance, every time we meet Sure to know you hard without missing a beat You pick me up, gets cold down here alone And I know you like nobody knows I will hold you from a million light-years away I will want you from a thousand miles away And you will know me by the breathe on your face ...on your face It’s true I staged these lines for you I work and I rage and I work just to fly to you Give my deepest and honest ways to you Too late 2013 © Xavier Cardriche Music
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Pavement (Live) 04:47
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PAVEMENT Rolled your bag across the pavement But left much more in my head And if I’d to live a life full of heartache I’m glad that you’re never coming back So, I gave you my time But you care more about the kind If you tried much harder to get me You’d know I had everything on the line So you’ll say so you’ll say What’s so close seems so far away Could write a letter, send it in RED To the estranged one left living in my bed So I met you out on the pavement Can’t recall much that was said Though at times I miss you my heart breaks Glad that you’re never coming back 2010 © Xavier Cardriche Music
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Boss (Live) 03:34
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BOSS Daddy said c’mon boy you better shape up Daddy said c’mon boy you better ship out What you think you’re gonna gonna sleep all day What you think you’re gonna gonna sleep all day You turn the light on fine. You turn the light on fine You turn the light on fine I think I heard you You turn the light on fine You turn the light on fine You turn the light on fine I think I heard you Working for your man can wait another day Set me up with something that won’t slag my way Working for your man can wait another day Set me up with something, set me up with something C’mon baby take a walk outside let me show you let me show you what i'm here for C’mon baby take a walk outside let me show you let me show you what i'm here for A drink a smoke a smile let me show you let me show you what i'm here for C’mon baby take a walk outside Working for your man can wait another day Set me up with something that won’t slag my way Working for your man can wait another day Set me up with something that won’t slag my way Working for your man can wait another day Set me up with something that won’t slag my way Working for your man can wait another day Set me up with something, set me up with something Here comes the new boss The same as the old boss Here comes the new boss The same as the old boss Look around take a walk outside wake me Fold me up Working for your man can wait another day Set me up with something that won’t slag my way Working for your man can wait another day Set me up with something that won’t slag my way 2010 © Xavier Cardriche Music
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Be My Voice (Live) 02:42
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BE MY VOICE Be my voice When it’s hard to take Be my voice When the days grow lonesome Be my voice Through the throwing stones, I’ll ask that you always… Be my voice I’ll listen to all you say I’ll listen to all you fear I’ll listen to all that you’ve done For me and you Be my voice When it’s hard to take Be my voice When the nights grow lonesome Be my voice Through the throwing stones, I’ll ask that you always… I’ll ask that you always… I’ll ask that you always… Be my voice 2023 © Xavier Cardriche Music
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In Due Time (Live) 04:46
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IN DUE TIME Green the leaves, slow the day Green your eyes when you look that way Time’s like a railroad winding round you And you can’t beat the turns like the way you need to Could be a lover, a fighter, and a legend untold But the kid inside you won’t ever go home So keep your head up kid, but below the clouds Know that good life just ain’t that loud In due time Red light Yellow light Green light, go There’s a yellow rat bastard at your door He’s gonna tell you it’s not a shame He’s gonna get you to play his game So, you scurry about you can’t find the walls Need to find someplace to lay nice and tall Run baby run baby run run run Oh, run baby run In due time You can be a sheep in the field without your pack You can be the very best tune, but the very last track You can smoke them away on your worst off day You can be a lot of things nice You can be a lot of things nice You can be a lot of things nice, just mind your back In due time Is your heart ready for this show They’re all on queue for you y’know Miles and miles and yet alone This is now what I call home. 2010 © Xavier Cardriche Music

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Xavier Cardriche Brooklyn, New York

Xavier Cardriche is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Brooklyn.

He has released 3 albums blending rock, folk, alt-country, and R&B.

Xavier frequently performs, both solo and with his band. ... more

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