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Isn't life

from Heads of the family by I'dawn

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This song's title comes from a short story by Katherine Mansfield 'The garden party'. The last words of the main character, a young aristocratic girl consist of this unfinished question to her brother : 'Isn't life... ?' after she just saw a dead man at a funeral, in the lower and poorer section of town. What life is, she does not have a clue but the mystery is here, unreachable by language.
Just what I felt that night at the restaurant.

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Where is your smile ?
I must admit that I lost mine
Why is it so dark ?
Far away beyond your eyes

Then you grab my hand
And light comes back
I feel that stab
All the way down my broken spine

They brought us the food
But I could not eat a single bite
I craved to touch your cheeks
And promise everything would be all right

The day was gone
When we left
Surrounding us, the night
Your smell, your touch
Was all I ever asked, before I died

Crawl away back home
Pictures of you still alive
In my drunken mind
Isn't life... isn't life... ?

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from Heads of the family, released February 22, 2022

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I'dawn Bordeaux, France

Renaud Ehrengardt is the main composer of I'dawn. He has lived on four continents, playing music with many different people along the way. I'dawn was his first solo project and the more personal. Now living in Morocco, Renaud eats tajine in Marrakech.

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