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I wrote Bittersweet the same year I left my job in the corporate world and started working for myself. It's both a reflection of the way I was feeling at the time - I was desperate to find meaning - but also of the way I think many of us live our lives, going through the same old daily routines in order to retain our comfort levels.
Ultimately though, I'd sell it all for love.

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Is it morning again?
Is it time to wake up?
Oh, its another Monday
Another turn of the clock

It’s the same old routine
The same old disease
Oh, I have all that I need
But it tastes bittersweet

I think today
I will put my heart away
I will join in this charade.

Would you ever give it up?
Cos I would sell it all for love
Oh it tastes so bittersweet
To have it all
Is bittersweet

Are you trapped in indifference
Where there’s no time to breathe?
It’s much safer to stay
In this middle class ease

Do you wonder what it would be like to live your dream
As you lie awake at night, thinking
What more could there be?
What more could there be?
What more could there be?

Would you ever give it up?
Cos I would sell it all for love
Oh it tastes so bittersweet
To have it all
Is bittersweet

Before its too late
I’d like to live free
And I’d like to get out
So I’m down on my knees
To pray, I’m ok
But I won’t join in this charade


Would you ever give it up?
Cos I would sell it all for love
Oh it tastes so bittersweet
To have it all
Is bittersweet

Thought I had it all, but its bittersweet

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from Where Oceans Meet the Sky, released February 23, 2017
Vocals - Mary Anne Constable, Guitar & Backing Vocals - Jan-Hendrik Foerie, Bass - Manfred Klose, Keys - Justin Ridge, Drums - Behan Croeser

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Mary Anne Constable Cape Town, South Africa

Mary Anne has been writing poetry and singing in the shower most of her life. A late bloomer by music world standards, she picked up a guitar for the first time at the age of 21 and began to turn her poetry into songs. Accompanying her stirring vocals, is a combination of gentle acoustic indie-folk sounds – soulful, sometimes bluesy, and hauntingly honest. ... more

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