Journey to the end of the waves
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JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WAVES
Digital LP – world wide release June 2022
Vinyl and CD – world wide release july 2022
Deluxe Edition – October 2022
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LP
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ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK "THE RUNAWAY KIDS"
Original songs and music to accompany Carly’s musical film “The Runaway kids” in English and French, arranged by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear, starring Stella Lelouch and Victor Meutelet
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VENTURE PARADISE PART 1
CARLY BLACKMAN'S FRENCH LANGUAGE FOLK
LP in French
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ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: MA SACRÉE JEUNESSE
Featuring songs by Jon Spencer, Joan and Jets, Serge Gainsbourg, The Incredible String Band, Jeanette, Carly Sings and many others as well as an original score by Carly Blackman
O'Milanta EP
Le Parade EP
Carly sings with Richard Walters
Someday - Limited Edition LP
Acoustic songs recorded by Damien RIce
Digital version: Coming soon in 2022
Vinyl 33 rpm. SOLD OUT
The Glove Thief - Limited Edition LP
CD, SOLD OUT
The Glove Thief - Deluxe Edition
LP – with six new tracks
World release date February 4th 2022
Je t’aime tant - Eli et Jacno Cover - Single
Apple Tree - Video and Radio Single
God and the Girl - Radio Single
You Are Travelling / L'Amour
Vinyl 45 rpm
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BIOGRAPHY
Carly Blackman is an Irish born singer-songwriter who has spent a large part of her existence living in France. She has been composing on the piano since she was 5 years old and first picked up her father’s classical guitar as a teenager.
While studying Theatre and Literature in Paris, she started recording live demos on her father’s Sony minidisc recorder and took up Jazz theory and vocal improvisation. It was then that she decided to create the persona of “Carly Sings” inspired by Chet Baker’s album “Chet Baker Sings”, French yeye singers, and American artist Bright Eyes.
Back in Dublin, she studied Jazz piano with tutors at the New Park school of music and vocal training with Opera singer Judith Mok. She was invited to host and play at an open mic night every Monday in cult music venue The Mezz.
Jason Boland (bass player of Kodaline) heard her and asked if he could record some demos in his studio. They invited French producer Axel Concato (Pi Ja Ma) to join them, and Jerome Pichon (guitarist with Melody’s Echo Chamber). Irish producer Steve Shannon heard their efforts and offered to make more recordings. The demos became an album called “The Glove Thief”.
Her debut was received with critical acclaim for its catchy melodies and poetic lyric writing. Carly quickly became known for her crystalline vocals and sixties jazz chords. After the album release, she performed and toured in large theatres with other international acts like José Gonzalez, The Spinto Band, Peter Von Poel, BellX1, Glen Hansard and Baxter Dury (Ireland, France, the UK and East Coast US) making many special radio, TV, and festival appearances. Notably, she performed a live radio concert with strings for Lyric Fm’s JK Sessions. Her next recording would be an acoustic album made in fellow Irish musician Damien Rice’s home studio.
Carly moved to Paris to pursue various musical collaborations with French arrangers and pop groups (Jean Claude Vannier, Syd Matters, Nouvelle Vague and Jean Benoit Dunkel of Air).
Here she also met British songwriter Richard Walters with whom she sang and co-wrote The Parade EP.
She has performed as a guest with many different artists and projects from folk to pop to electronica, often lending her voice and music to TV, Advertisement and Film soundtracks. In 2019 she was asked to write all the music for a French album project, performed by major French stars, to be released in 2021. Carly is also the composer and female half of new French Electro pop duo Venture Paradise.
After the success of her home-made music videos on Irish music television, she embarked on a career in the cinema, working as a film director, screenwriter, score composer and director of photography, even making numerous short films and music videos for legendary musicians like Sebastien Tellier and The Joubert Singers.
“Ma Sacrée Jeunesse” her directorial feature debut recounts the day in the life of an introspective French girl and pays homage to sixties new wave cinema. She penned the original music and curated the rare cult titles on the soundtrack. Her new feature film “The Runaway kids” is in pre-production, featuring an original soundtrack that she wrote especially for the film.
Her new solo album “Journey to the end of the waves” is also scheduled to be released internationally, followed by the “The Glove Thief – Deluxe version”, and two new solo albums, one in French and one in English.
Carly is also the founder of Verity Magazine, a feminist journal and pop culture and literary magazine.
LYRICS
From the “Glove Thief” Album
God and the Girl
You live over Mount Olympus in America
And I, I live behind green trenches
of ammonia
We met inside my castle of deficiency
My momma thought she knew you
and your family
But when you saw me
approaching your tired face
I knew I’d never be the kind of girl
who’d fall into your cold embrace
But some things are better not said
in fact the most obvious things
don’t need much questioning
You are winning all the races in America
And I, I’m dreaming of new places
in Utopia
I want to share your spotlight
on this stage and feed the people
all my music, with my bright lights
But when you saw me
approaching your tired face
I knew I’d never be the kind of girl
who’d fall into your cold embrace
But that’s all right coz that’s life
and the cards she deals us
Yeah that’s all right, coz that’s life
and the cards she deals us
I am bright, I am bright, but that
doesn’t mean I’ll reach your highs
I am wise, I am wise, but that doesn’t mean
I’ll give up this fight! This fight!
You Are Travelling
You are travelling away from me
our distant minds were too alike
You are drifting far beyond my reach
and I don’t see the point
in trying to pull you back
in trying to pull you back here
You are running fast away from me
through your tunnel wide
like icy rainbows
You are like a broken wing in need
of someone or something warm
to protect you tonight
to protect you tonight
But don’t you worry
coz I’ll always be there for you
And don’t you lose sleep now
coz I’ll be right next to you
I’ll be right next to you
You are falling through an open window
and I can see your face all fierce
and bloody-minded
You are fooling the best of friends
by thinking you’ll go unnoticed
I will read you some lines
from your bedtime book, that make
dancing words and rhymes
dancing words go by
But don’t you worry
coz I’ll always be there for you
And don’t you lose sleep now
coz I’ll be right next to you
I’ll be right next to you
I’ll be right next to you
Eyes Closed
I came upon your house
so I could see you sleeping
I broke into your room
so I could hear you breathing
But you seemed real sad
with your eyes closed like that
You seemed oh so sad
with your eyes closed like that
I lay next to your face
and covered you in helium
I whispered to your lips
in a language of oblivion
But you seemed real sad
with your eyes closed like that
You seemed oh so sad
with your eyes closed like that
And your fist clenched, and your
heart stopped, and your mind bent
on turning me down
I prayed that you would feel
a molecule of emotion
And get behind the wheel
of an impulse to be near me
But you seemed real sad
with your eyes closed like that
You seemed oh so sad
with your eyes closed like that
And your fist clenched, and your
heart stopped, and your mind bent
on turning me down, down down down
George Emerson
I want to meet you on a tight rope
high above your hometown
of powder and pills
I want to see you go real crazy so I can
be Miss Daisy in your mother’s bed
I want to watch you when your horny
playing with your pony
in your jail cell
George, George Emerson
he’s the only one who can show you
how to have some fun
George, George Emerson
he’s your antithesis
you’re antidote to boredom
I want to wrap you in newspaper
and tie you in red ribbon made of thorns
I want to send you to my Grandpa
who lives in his apartment
in the underworld
He’ll tell you a story from the last century
about a girl from landed gentry
who fell in love with George
George, George Emerson
he believed in beauty for everyone
Goerge, George Emerson
he’s a poor mans son but he’s a real one
I want to tell you that I love you
but I’d be lying to…
George, George Emerson
he believed in beauty for everyone
George, George Emerson
he’s the only son of a poor man
Mirror
What’s the time on your internal clock say
when you’re running past tomorrow?
What do you do when you see yourself in a
windowpane?
Do you wanna jump and break it?
How cool would it be
to see the insides first
How cool would it be
to see the insides first hand
How cool would it be
to see the insides of you and me
How am I supposed to answer your words?
Should I give you the same story?
I have only known you for five short days
How do you want me to control this?
How cool would it be
to see the ending first
How cool would it be
to see the ending first hand
How cool would it be
to see the ending before the rest
You are like a distant star above me
that’s been waiting for me to follow
If I hang my dark clouds out to dry
will you still shine through me?
How cool would it be
to see the insides first
How cool would it be
to see the insides first hand
How cool would it be
to see the ending before the rest
Apple Tree
Lying there with your ailing eye
trying to fall asleep to a morbid lullaby
I trusted you with your bad dreams
In your head it’s a cold and misty night
candescent leaves shelter you from my
window, where the apple trees grow
In between the dark corners and coves
we managed to stay welded to each other
And the metal lock stayed fastened, even
though the air blew hell through our keyhole
Oh happy times await your healthy eye
can see me holding you
And your lips will remember
Oh happy times await your healthy eye
can see me holding you
And your lips will remember
Tried to lie, tried to get by
thinking you were challenged by
my security breakdown, where I broke down
In the light I can see you were too scared
to take me to, your secret garden
where the apple trees grow
In between the dark corners and coves
we managed to stay welded to each other
And the metal lock stayed fastened, even
though the air blew hell through our keyhole
Oh happy times await your healthy eye
can see me holding you
And your lips will remember
Oh happy times await your healthy eye
can see me holding you
And your lips will remember
Mushroom in my Hard-Drive
My computer died today
I heard nothing as it withered away
The screen went dead, and left me numb
I watched it fade, like a setting sun
Maybe my mobile phone will die
and everything electric will fry
Cars will laugh as they turn away
from a chance to dance in a suicidal way
The power’s gone forever
the power’s gone forever
And we will be forced to use sunlight
and travel in a bus led by a kite
Maybe my mushroom cloud will come
and eat me up like a burning sun
Fish will jump and say “Hello”
…HELLO…
to Peace, Eternity and the Chosen One
Soon their megaphones will cry:
The power’s gone forever
the power’s gone forever
And we will be forced to use sunlight
and travel in a bus led by a kite
I Am Right
You don’t want to touch me
unless it hurts me
All you want to do is look at me
and tell me I’m not right
You don’t want hold me physically
All you want to do is look at me
and tell me I’m not right
But I know that when you kissed me
I know that you desired me
And I know that all this bullshit
is to disguise the fact that I am right
to disguise the fact that I am right
You don’t want to be with me
or speak the same language as me
All you want to do is look at me
metaphysically, and tell me I’m not right
You don’t want to taste me
or this, or anything
All you want to do is criticise life
and tell me I’m not right
But I know that you desire me
and I know you’re thinking of me
When you touch your _____ at night
YES, I know that I am right
I know that I am right!
L’Amour
Tu es le seul au monde
Tu es le seul à répondre
Tu es mon rayon
mes médicaments
Tu es mon amant
C’est l’amour, l’amour
c’est l’amour, l’amour
Tu es mon confident
Tu es mon p’tit téléphone
Tu es ma destination
Tu es mon amant
C’est l’amour, l’amour
c’est l’amour, l’amour
Et des fois tu me dis que je suis la plus belle
Et des fois tu me dis que je suis ton échelle
Mais c’est l’amour, uniquement l’amour,
c’est l’amour, uniquement l’amour
Tu es mon p’tit vampire
et avec toi je crains pour ma vie
Mais en disant ça je veux te dire
que tu m’assoupis
C’est l’amour, l’amour
c’est l’amour, l’amour
Et des fois tu me dis que je suis la plus belle
Et des fois tu me dis que je suis ton échelle
Mais c’est l’amour, uniquement l’amour
c’est l’amour, uniquement l’amour
LYRICS
From the “Journey To The End Of The Waves” Album
BEVERLY FARMS
Over Beverly Farms
You shine on
Over Beverly Farms
You shine on
ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Over Beverly Farms
You shine on
Over Beverly Farms
You shine on
We rise up into the sky
The train by our side the moon on our right
We ee ee rise up into the sky
the train on our right the trees by our side
We move
Faster
the moon is high
and the train’s going by
Over Beverly Farms You shine on
GOODBYE
This is a letter to say goodbye,
I hope you’ll enjoy the show x 2
We will still be friends,
we will meet again, and
We will watch the waves go by,
and we’ll sing goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Everytime, and every thing, I thought I wanted you to be/say
I got it so wrong
I thought we were the same, making up names, at Edge’s mile, but it was all for show
Sometimes I get scared that when I dare to speak my mind, people don’t care
But not for you, green and blue, a light hearted truth that got lost up there
We will still be friends, we will meet again
and we will watch the waves go by
and we’ll sing goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
This is a letter to say goodbye,
I hope you’ve enjoyed the show x 2
LOLITA’S DEATH
Lolita’s Dead x 4
You call her your little gun
you know she’s a virgin
her lipgloss is rasberry
and you’re married to no-one she says
“I wantcha to hold me and im anxious to play,
but when we’re alone, dont wanna be touched that way”
Gone is the kiss of an unmade promise
The People aren’t watching
and the people are wrong
and the reasons they left you
is the reason you’re gone
You’ve covered up your legs
and you’ve covered up your and mouth
no-one can touch you now the woman is out
Lolita’s dead, Lolita’s dead x 4
She’s changed her walking
and she’s changed the signs
her eyes dont do head and
her lips don’t do nights
the sting is gone from her
the sting was right
looking for answers
to the rest of her life!
I know what I want why I like what I do
I’m hungry for love but I’ve eaten you
Licking her finger, biting the skin,
but the sighs that she’s making are keeping her thin, and
she’s looking for a pick up
in the Men’s room and that dance
it’s what you thought I was askin
when I gave you the chance
Gone is the kiss of an unmade promise
You know what I want why I like what I do
I’m hungry for love but I’ve eaten you
Patent shoes, bring me to my teacher
I’d pay for the one, who’d make me want him.
Who’d make me want him x 3
THE RISE AND THE FALL
Forgive you for your cruel tongue
for your duplicity and for telling me I’m no fun
I’m not the one you’d like to play with
even though we’re both Young,
and and looking for favours
Forgive you for your one track lips,
misguided yet driven with unkempt desire
swaying from side to side around mine
so you could get hold of my sinking heart
and watch it capsize
CHORUS
Forgive you for it all, for the rise and the fall
I forgive you for it all, for the rise and the fall x 3
You build me up you break me down
you treat me like a fool but it’s you the clown
And all I ever wanted/gave you was the truth x 2
I forgive you for your hands
for gripping my palms
sucking on my soft skin
holding my waist
Forgive you for your knees
for letting me dangle
letting me breathe/bleed
in a room full of dragons
consumed by their own smoke
CHORUS
I forgive you for knocking me to one side
like the beer that fell at our feet
And for letting me play it cool in my bed,
and for pretending to be beat
I forgive you for taking on the voice of my ex-lover,
who’s hate is all over your face.
And his shame is there too,
that I am who I am and I sing for a place
in life and in Space!
CHORUS
I DON’T DESERVE YOU
I dream about you in my sleepless night
Your lips give me meaning in my empty room
CHORUS
I wish I could take you
but I know I don’t deserve you
I wish I could take you
but I know I don’t deserve you
I’ve already got it so good
I don’t deserve you,
I don’t deserve you
I’ve already got it so good
I don’t deserve you,
I don’t deserve you
I’ll write you letters that I’ll never send
I wonder if we’ll ever touch again
CHORUS x 2
THE LAST TIME
Take off your 80s hair cut
Put back on your birthday suit
hide behind the bedroom curtain
wrap me up in bloody sheets
And you keep looking right at my t-shirt
And you keep looking right at my t-shirt
I don’t wanna share anything with you at all
I don’t wanna share anything with you at all
I don’t wanna share anything with you at all
I don’t wanna share anything with you at all
hum hum hum hum x 2
On the rocks you’re sleeping
thumb inside Mr. Gray
I arrive to read you
and your eyes open when I turn the page
and your eyes open when I turn the page
But we keep looking right at the sun-set
and we keep looking right at the sun-set
I don’t wanna share anything with you at all
I don’t wanna share anything with you at all
I don’t wanna share anything with you at all
I don’t wanna share anything with you at a- a- all
hum hum hum hum
So don’t be afraid,
the word’s out, your safe,
I’ll wait for the unsettling to start x 2
HIGHER
We don’t say a word
we don’t see the reason for it
we sit still and wait
You don’t put your mouth,
near the place you know it’s welcome
You just wait for me, to say
I don’t know if I’m ready to take this,
Higher than you, Higher than you
I don’t know if I’m ready to take this
Higher than you, Higher than you
You don’t put your mouth,
near the place you know it’s welcome
You just wait for me to say x 2
I don’t know if I’m ready to take this
Higher than you, Higher than you
I don’t know if I’m ready to take this,
Higher than you, Higher than you
Ba da da da da da da, da di da
di da bum ba da di do da x 4
NO GOOD GIRL
You sat on the edge of me
Watching words come out of my mouth
You saw sunlight touch me
as you played with my heart
You felt all my sympathy
Drip down from your open book
You sang me me my own melody
but I didn’t want to hear it back
Singing
She is just a no good girl x 3
Like you, like you, like you, like you
Like you o o o o
Like you oo
You made sure I see your picture
Blown up on the wall of fame
You made sure I take your number
So you got somewhere to stay
And we made sure to hurt eachother
Bidding false goodbyes
And we are cruel about all the Others that we’ve known
And we shake hands like bitter partners x 2
On the road to love
Singing
She is just a no good girl x 6
Like me, Like me, Like me, Like me
Like Me me me me me me me me
ROBIN HOOD
Robin hood, you got wings made out of wood,
you got courage made out of steel
And you know how to make things real
Robin hood, you came all the way from England x 4
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
English towns, English countryside
English towns and English suicides
that make you smile Robin hood,
you got words that rage like fire
And the flames they take you higher
Through the walls of your heart
Robin hood, you came all the way from england
Robin hood, you came all the way from england
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
English towns, and English countryside
English towns and English sucicdes
that make you smile Robin hood,
you came all the way from england x 4
THE WHITE EAGLE
Ive been running around with my ears to the ground
waiting for a heartbeat from the Earth to speak
like an Indian child
in the desert wild
watching the moon rising
You’re not alone, you just think you are,
said the white eagle, passing:
Come fly with up high
I know my way around this big black sky
come fly with up high
I know my way around this big black night
The strange thing is I’ve been running away
from this feeling I had once
that no matter who you are or how hard you try
the wheel of fortune keeps turning its back on time
The eagle laughed and he grabbed
my back and we went through the air, gliding
Saw people’s faces in the clouds and spaces
as we stepped through the window of my dreams
Come fly with me up high
I know my way around this big black sky
Come fly with up high
I know my way around this big black nightx 2
We will face our fears,
they’ve been there through the years
Come fly with me up high
I know my way around this big black sky
Come fly with me up high
I know my way around this big black night
SATURDAY MORNING BLUES
Don’t push me away, you know how it feels
To be hanging on a heart string
And carrying all the wheels x 2
Doomed by my Momma, doomed by my Dad
To think that love was a desperate fad x 2
So I went to the fields looking for gold
but the only thing I found
was shivering in the cold x 2
I ran away from home and I runaway from you
And I’ll keep on running
till you beat me with the truth x 2
Don’t push me away, you know how it feels
To be hanging on a heart string
And drowning in, your fears
WHAT’S A GIRL TO DO?
I don’t know what I did wrong
It’s happened again
The same disappointment, the same old pain
I didn’t mean to offend you by being myself
Lost in the darkness. Lost again.
What’s a girl to do, when she’s so misconstrued
by a boy that she hardly knew? x 2
I think I’ve met your type before, you don’t look very far
for the heart of the person to show you who they are
There’s something about you that seems so confused
It’s holding you captive and hiding the truth
What’s a girl to do, when she’s so misconstrued
by a boy that she hardly knew? x 2
I can’t hear your voice no more
I can’t see your eyes
I made sure to close mine
The moment you smiled
Now we’re like strangers
who talked with the night
Will we ever meet again in the morning light?
What’s a girl to do, when she’s so misconstrued
by a boy that she hardly knew? x 3
VOYAGE
Something hapenned a long time ago
Beetroot marks still on the floor
Voyage au bout de la nuit
Reading passages to me
I don’t question why things changed
I just know that they did
I don’t question why things changed
I just know that they did
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
Oh yeah baby, oh yeah baby,
things are crazy x 4
I AM WAITING
I have been waiting for you to come
Into my life,
I’ve been waiting for so long
And I want to hold you
And I want to hold you
And I want to hold you
But I don’t know if I ever will
I have been dreaming
About our love
And I have been waiting
For you to come
And I want to hold you
And I want to hold you
And I want to hold you
But I don’t know if I ever will
I have been waiting
For you
To come