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lost&found

by Michael Reinhart

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diamond 05:06
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diamond january 2006 montréal for a little while a long long time ago was a certain someone I wanted to know now I know I’ll never get a second chance she fell right out of love into other plans she said obviously you’ve never held a diamond in your hand ‘cause if you ever had you’d obviously understand [once] for a little while a long long time away I didn’t know half the things that I know today she was older than me by a couple of years sometimes the eyes can’t see ‘cept through their own tears she said obviously you’ve never held a diamond in your hand ‘cause if you ever had you’d obviously understand [repeat] lost without a lantern in a diamond mine is this what it means when they say that love is blind [once] for a little while a long long way from here the road up ahead wasn’t very clear sat with my brother at the bar & mourned my empty bed he bought another round & smiled at me this is all he said he said obviously you’ve never held a diamond in your hand ‘cause if you ever had you’d obviously understand [repeat] lost without a lantern in a diamond mine is this what it means when they say that love is blind [repeat] [instrumental break / guitar & bass] doo doo doodoo doo … © michael reinhart 2006 [h]and’sum music socan
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my mistake 03:24
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my mistake / october 18 07 montréal my mistake I should’ve known better not a hope in hell I was ever going to get her my mistake what was I even thinking going to take a little while for all this to sink in my mistake I should’ve guessed ‘cause I’ve never been lucky & I’m sure not blessed my mistake I was just careless ‘cause if it smells like trouble it’s going to end up in a mess the clouds in her eyes meant I was in for nasty weather that I was in trouble the very moment I met her the clouds in her eyes meant I was in for nasty weather by the look of those eyes it ain’t getting any better [break / instrumental] my mistake I guess I’ll take the blame love’s going to be difficult by any other name oh my mistake I was fanning the flame nothing left but smoke now & it’s such a shame [repeat line] girl now you got what you wanted but you didn’t know what to do with it but it’s still my mistake all those unpredictable things you did [repeat verse] all those unpredictable things you did [repeat line x 3 2nd time] [break / instrumental] my mistake I must confess I was saying no but I was still thinking yes © michael reinhart 2008 [h]and’sum music socan
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broken idea 06:02
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broken idea october 14. 2003 montréal don’t know how you did it but you got into my heart gonna drive me crazy but then you did right from the start don’t know how you did it but you got into my head keep thinking I might forget you but I keep thinking ‘bout you instead & something keeps on telling me you wouldn’t have to try very hard to have me falling down at your feet but it’s just not in the cards you’re much too beautiful just to be a friend but if I give in to this love girl well it would most probably end & it could only end badly so let’s not even start why’s it always seem to be so goddamned hard I can only think sadly that we’re better off apart but it’s getting kind of tiresome always being so smart when it comes to the love that might have been the stain of deceit’s upon me just like original sin sometimes it seems like you just can’t win & it’s not for any lack of practising & other times it’s very clear that it’s sink or swim once the fire of love love love’s gone touched against your skin lately when I see your beautiful face I could trade this living hell for an even hotter place this broken idea well it’s bleeding all over me & just like a blind man I can finally see please tell me what you’ve been thinking & I’ll likely go & break that too you know how when you’ve been drinking well nothing’s ever really true I know how to get in trouble but not how to make it end don’t need me another lover don’t need to lose another friend [repeat last phrase] so I hear you’re living with some pain well what can I say do you actually believe it’s any easier for me you’re crying there in the bubble bath trying to wash away the rain but the clouds just keep on coming well that ain’t about to change do you think I’m here in paradise without an original sin just trying not to get too dirty well now I know for sure I’ll never win [repeat phrase] this broken idea like a window lets air into the room this broken idea like a song chase away the gloom © michael reinhart 2003 [h]and'sum music socan
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falling into the sky 04:00
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falling into the sky / 2002 montréal ah he’s going to laugh he’s going to take it on the chin ah he’s had enough of his original sin oh there’s nothing left but the sound of the dropping pin ah this is the stuff life is made of once again [refrain] going to take all I can get & I know that it ain’t free going take all I can get before the devil finds me [chorus] now I’m falling into the sky like some crazy mixed up guy I’m done falling into hell been there done that I can tell don’t like the devil anymore someone please show him the door now I’m falling into the sky like a crazy mixed up guy [instrumental] he’s going to laugh he’s going to make some sad girl grin ah he’s had enough of all this fussing & fighting oh there’s only love when you’ve factored it all in oh this is the stuff life is made of once again [refrain] [chorus] © Michael Reinhart 2003 [h]and’sum music socan
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if I'd only known 04:53
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if I’d only known / aug 27 ’03 / aug 4 ‘06 montréal if I’d only known what I know now, then I might not have closed the door oh I never thought there’d be no time again or I’d have thought a little longer before if I’d only known what I know now, then things might have just gone differently oh I never guessed it would ever end guess you could say the last laugh’s on me but I’m not laughing & it was really raining & these aren’t just the words in some song oh I left you standing wet without explaining that I’d already gone & moved on [repeat x 1] if I’d only known what I know now, then I might have known what was in store I never thought there’d be no time again or I’d have talked less & listened even more oh if I’d only known what I know now, then we might just have had half a chance I never dreamt it would ever end til you gave another the last dance [refrain] & I’m still not laughing…. now if it’s my understanding of the memory remaining I guess you could say I was wrong & these aren’t just the words in some song oh I mean when I say I guess you could say I was wrong [repeat] if I’d only known what I know now, then I still might have closed the door © michael reinhart 2006 [h]and’sum music socan
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face the music 05:35
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face the music / may 22 2007 montréal well I’ve burned a lot of bridges down now I’m out on a limb scenario’s a little bit like uh, sink or swim rub up against this hard life trying to shed this old skin still waiting on some former self did you happen to see him you managed to catch my eye with one single glance like snagging my skin on a barbed wire fence & now I can’t see anything but you & it don’t make sense I’m hard-pressed to find any signs of my intelligence don’t know why my eyes fell onto your hands there in the open doing some kind of perfect little dance & there in the shadow I fall into a deep trance looking back on it now seems I never stood a chance it’s time to face the music one, two, three, four you know deep down woman that I am a good man & deep down’s where I live not behind some closed door making out of this holy mess whatever life I can now you can hate me if I have roiled up some dirty water made it near impossible now for you to drink (down) the truth I’m just a human man I am I am nobody’s father I promise if you give me your time I’ll give you your proof [instrumental] now I’ve already lost you a hundred times in my head never even once kissed your lips I never felt the soft side of your hand yet & sometimes without knowing there’s things that you just know even though I’ve never really had you it’s clear I have to let you go it’s clear I have to let you go [chorus, verse, chorus] repeat last line 4x © Michael Reinhart 2007 [h]and’sum music
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nola 06:47
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Nola sept/oct ‘05 corning NY/montréal QC Nola, she's no stranger to death she’s throwing firecrackers into the hurricane’s breath she wake up tomorrow, & to her surprise she’s black & blue & barely breathing ah (but) she’s still alive ‘Ole man river’s rhythm’s swollen & strong & that old lake’s been holding up her pretty blue dress now far too long the sky’s hell-bent on its own dark shade of the blues living beneath the horizon, you better have a good excuse mother nature’s temper ‘round these parts ain’t exactly news yeah living beneath the horizon, (one day) you going pay your dues oh no oh no oh no oh Nola [repeat] no tradition (‘round) here of being afraid of the dark it’s the daylight coming’s tinder waiting for a spark now the devil he in town & the good lord‘s long gone & a rusty trumpet in the Quarter practise a funeral song Nola why you doing those crazy things that you do no sense asking a stupid question just ‘cause something’s true Nola why you singing the blues instead of playing that oldtime jazz the whole world miss the way you used to shake your pretty little ass now you’ve always been true to yourself & to nobody else & there’s those folks got it in their little minds you got to do some time in hell you’re just shit out of luck, ain’t no nothing you done wrong even your god-fearing neighbours up north ain’t always been so strong & after all those saints ah they go marching on (& on & on) a rusty trumpet in the Quarter still playing that funeral song oh no oh no oh no oh Nola [repeat] [chorus] (the whole world miss the way you used to turn & smile & make a little pass) the whole world miss the way you used to shake your pretty little ass oh no oh no oh no oh Nola © Michael Reinhart 2005 [h]and’sum music socan
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accident of love 05:44
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accident of love Nov 10 04 this accident of love now you left the scene of the crime this accident of love you left me here doing time you swerved into my line of vision there wasn’t much I could do I was faced with a difficult decision while you just went rolling right through love was not my first ambition even though the chances are so few but would I avoid a head-on collision well maybe not with you you were in my path, I was going too fast I couldn’t get out of the way it’s not the first time & it won’t be the last we’ll both live to see another day I swear I saw your signal but now you’re claiming there was none your alibi’s anything but original it just seems like a hit-&-run this accident of love I’m not sure it’s anyone’s fault but it may have just been enough to bring my life to a screaming halt [instrumental part] this accident of love you’ve left the scene of the crime this accident of love you left me here doing time © Michael Reinhart 2004 [h]and’sum music socan
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lost&found 06:35
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lost & found / june 6 ‘07 I was born with a smile on my face going to pay the price for the rest of my days I been lost & found in this search for grace & now I’m just making it up along the way I was born of a country western singer, see & a counterfeit gypsy seems the open arms of misery is where I was always meant to be meant to be [chorus] ooh ooh falling out of the lap of luxury ooh ooh into the arms of misery obsession, my most faithful friend you seem more like the enemy you’re going to take me to an unkind end for the whole damned world to see confession, I got a soul to mend this ain’t no comedy somebody please wake me before I fall into the open arms of misery, misery [chorus] & [instrumental in fm] save me from the lethal charms of a faulty memory somebody please pinch me real hard before I disappear into some dark reverie see I was born with a smile on my face going to pay the price for the rest of my days I been lost & found in this search for grace & now I’m just making it up along the way up along the way [chorus] x 2 © Michael Reinhart 2007 [h]and’sum music SOCAN
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smile for the camera 04:25
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smile for the camera / november 21 ‘06 people since forever still keep having babies downtown traffic snarls like a dog with rabies your whole next year’s one big series of maybes smile for the camera everybody say cheese not really anything now much the same got a different face, but the same old name gets to be like some kind of guessing game trying to figure out what it is that you became [instrumental break short] god died & went to heaven, no one’s seen him since now the one & the other just like siamese twins the whole world goes on & on committing their sins out of sight is out of mind, now everybody wins fastfood & billboards line the info highway poor schmuck dying full-time monday thru friday can’t take much talent to imagine the sky grey seems nobody’s listening, no matter what a guy say [chorus / not really anything now…] [instrumental break] walk through a world now, seems so foreign brain’s become toxic with poker, pop & porn can’t recall his death, can’t remember being born ‘cause love’s never drawn blood, that beautiful thorn now kicking & screaming, you’re going to go down going to go down in history with an indelible frown strange thing is, the truth laid bare no one but you’s ever really going to care [chorus / ooh ooh ooh ooh…etc scat w/ percs] [chorus w/ percussion only] © michael meinhart 2006 [h]and’sum music
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wintertown 06:24
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wintertown / november 2006 / may 31/07 well I’ve fallen into wintertown from a grey cloud in grey sky & there’s one question not worth asking for the same reason & that’s ‘why’ turbulence rattles the teeth oh a percussion in the head in someone else’s story I might be already dead now the body falls just briefly out from the skin surprised exposed for what I just might be gravity realized grounded now in wintertown snow as black as soot too late for the silence I think I’ll just stay put grounded here in wintertown snow as dry as dust the old blood of a memory well it flakes away like rust terminal city, halfway there & the picture’s getting plain Tim Horton’s selling doughnuts to the conspicuously sane prairie flatness in the voice of the cute peroxide blonde before the sound’s even left her lips oh the gist’s already gone now small talk at the bar let fall so careless to the floor swallow on the despair, mouth makes room for even more [chorus] suitcase packed so careful like a brilliant little mind careful what he look for so careful not to find improbable bird, it belly-flop hard against the wind falling forward into faith like the penitent who’s sinned now the words are getting scarcer long before the ink’s run out fills the poet’s mouth with the empty taste of doubt [pause / repeat line] [chorus] repeat ½ of last line the old blood of a memory…. © Michael Reinhart 2007 [h]and’sum music SOCAN

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11-song album. Recorded live-off-the-floor in Montréal QC in December 2010, released in Montréal on November 18 2011 at Cagibi.

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released November 18, 2011

All words & songs written by Michael Reinhart.
Michael Reinhart: acoustic guitar & vocals.
David Ryshpan: keyboards.
Jérémi Roy: contrebasse.

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Michael Reinhart is a Canadian artist, composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist. He has released six albums to date & has created several instrumental scores for contemporary dance, theatre & even films.

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