The Truth's Not the Truth When It Lies

from It Takes You Some Place by Brian Braganza

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Dedicated to Oscar Braganza 1934-2017

You can hear the CN/CP train howl from any where in Brockville, Ontario. I grew up with this sound permeating my every waking moment. As my father lay dying I heard these train whistles through the hospital window late into the night. From that same window was a panorama of steeples and towers of all kinds.

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The Truth’s Not the Truth When It Lies

You’re on the platform
waiting for that train
to take you back to where you came from
That whistle’s a-calling calling your name

That train’s howl it clutches my soul
It pulls me to sleep and stirs me at dawn
Like coyote holler, like rain pouring down
These are things that keep me up at night
This is where I’ll meet you

A tunnel’s not a tunnel unless it takes you some place
A bird’s not a bird ‘til it flies.
Words are only spoken when there’s breath in your lungs
The truth’s not the truth when it lies
The truth’s not the truth when it lies

Beauty’s a witness beyond what we know
every blade in the field, every leaf of the tree
we stand and we fail, we sing and we fall
Time, tells, all

A tunnel’s not a tunnel...

Clock tower and water reservoir
Steeples, antennae they race to the sky
Holding the place between earth and up high
This whistle’s a ghost, this train’s a memory
These tracks are all I can see

A tunnel’s not a tunnel...

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from It Takes You Some Place, released February 3, 2018
Brian Braganza vocal, guitar
Ashton Rhodeniser backing vocal
Tim Reeves-Horton backing vocal and guitar
Jody Conrad percussion

Recorded by Sweet Orange Mobile Recording & Audio in Brian's Strawbale House
January 1, 2018

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Brian Braganza Auburndale, Nova Scotia

Brian Braganza is a music maker, a dreamer of dreams, a mover and shaker. He lives in a straw bale house in rural Nova Scotia.

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