Between the Waves

by Rodrigo Braga

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'Between the Waves' is Rodrigo's debut solo album and was written on his travels around the world in 2008. Recorded by Edinburgh producer Garry Boyle, the songs feature a whole host of guest musicians from the Scottish live music scene, adding textures to Rodrigo's guitar playing and rich vocal harmonies.

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released 25 October 2009
Produced by Garry Boyle and Rodrigo Braga.

Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Garry Boyle.

All Words and Music by Rodrigo Braga.
(except track 8 by Lennon & McCartney)

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tags: acoustic braga brazil jazz latin rodrigo singer songwriter soul bossa nova folk singer world London

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Track Name: Apollo 18
There's panic in the streets
And everybody wants to hide
Leave it to the police
But are you sure they're on your side?
Didn't you see it in the papers?
Y2K is back.
You just can't trust the 20th Century
But we'll be right this time, yeah we are right this -

Time to go and leave this world
Don't you know that nothing's gonna change
if you don't learn and grow a soul
so we'll evolve and turn away from the distractions

There's nothing on the TV
And I need it to numb my brain
Wipe away all the excitement
Flush my feelings down the drain
Yes I've heard of the enlightenment
But wasn't that a while ago?
They didn't know what we know now
To err is human, don't you know?
Track Name: Eagle Bay
An exciting day and you are lost between the waves,
the highs and lows that rain on your parade
and leave you shaking with the resolve
to see it through this time.

But in this race the only place your grace is safe
is right by the starting line, new and unused,
smooth and unscarred.

As you face this awkward maze and find your way
in a hazy daze, you'll find your way through the thorns,
feeling each puncture draining you of your blood.

You'll move with fist and claw, ruining your body,
so smooth and unscarred til now, just to find
a shadow of yourself.

Another ending day and you have got so far to go
and still the bruises show and ring with pain
to leave you wondering if this is worth
the years you spend in vain.

As you near the rewards,
the one you'll never hope to reach
lies entombed beneath,
under the scars.
Track Name: Red Skies
I took a leaf out of my book
to replace it with your own.
Though the morals were the same,
something had changed.
There was no compromising
the sense of perspective arising.
The feeling of urgency subsiding in haste.

So I return your courtesy
and offer you a conclusion.
Lay the pages where you will,
for the book is yours.
And yours alone.

Imagine you're on an Island,
covered in beauty and excitement
Searching for harmony with spade in hand.
You notice the steam on the horizon,
Turn and wave, and suddenly you're boarding.
Harbouring the fruits you gathered in those years.

And it feels like you're losing, but it doesn't have to be.
I won't pretend to understand, but I will say this;
With the close of this chapter, a new one will begin.
It doesn't have to be The End.

So I leave you on your ship, still aspiring to be great.
Put your eyes on the horizon and sail on.
Track Name: Drumbeatz
It hurts in the beginning
but now its alright.
Keeps me on my toes
and breathing slow
through the night.

First I'm lost for words,
then they're frozen in time.
I gotta ride this wave,
and take control of my life.
Someone help me lord,
cos I'm losing my mind
Between the peaks and troughs
I'm leaving pieces behind.

And with all this struggling that's in vain
All of the pieces from this moment
fragment in time.
Escaping me…

Can't stop the beat of this drum.
Can't stop the beat of this drum.
Oh no just keep the pieces in your head and let them run around a while.
Oh yeah you gotta keep them flowing
gotta keep them brewing into something new.

All of the pieces from this moment
fragment in time.
Escaping me…
Track Name: The Point of Realization
I praise the morning light,
I wonder if each morning that goes by
Is signaling my time to grow.
The morning comes the signal fades,
But apathy remains and so it reigns.

For all my sins,
I should have nailed this one a long time ago.
I never should have let it take hold.

But hope will make me rise
And wash away the common from my eyes,
I don’t need it at it’s best.
I’ll take a crowbar to my chest
And expose it to the world,
and so it goes, it’s not that bad.

I should have done this a long long time ago.
No need for sureness to be bold.
No waiting for answers to evolve.
Just take this crowbar – problem solved.

For all my sins it’s gonna be so good.
Track Name: Lament
I never meant to make you low.
Love wasn't something I
prophecised to know
I only wanted your throne,
and you gave it to me so.

I never meant to do you harm
I know no voodoo or supernatural charms
I only felt the fall from grace
with the natural alarm.

But you gave me something...
I just don't know.

I never meant to stop loving you
But I had no control.
Until the day my soul parted you
I only wanted to share the world with you
But there ain't nothing to chain a human soul.
Track Name: Soothe
Ten weeks to the day I sped away,
You walked around the block
and I flew round the world.
And under the throat we shared a lump
That gave the mistrust the oil it needed to burn.

As day followed day, ideals changed
We swam around the circles again and again
Til covered in scrapes something broke.
The anger and hate drained away.

Under a shade of hurt,
which the colours of the world soothe.
Even this cloud of hate,
which the wind and the time soothe.

Now as we meet all the dreams that faded
Give way to new ways to be and exchange.
So ninety-nine days coalesce today
And the dunes that we crossed turn to grains

…and then blow away for good.

…like each sun that passes, the lessons that we learn soothe.

…I never claim to know the score, but in this foreign soil the body sores soothe.
Track Name: Had I Known
Oh yeah I never knew that
I’d meet somebody like you
Who could do to me the things that you do
But its true, yes it’s true, yes its true.

Oh yeah I never realised
what a kiss could be,
This could only happen to me
Can’t you see? Can’t you see?

That when I tell you that I love you,
You’re gonna say you love me too.
And when I say that you are mine,
You’re gonna say you love me too.

Oh yeah I should have realised
a lot of things before
If this is love you’ve got to give me more
Give me more, give me more, give me more.
Track Name: Onda Nova
Outwith the training ground
the skeptic & the septic thrive
And swimming into bigger seas
Concealing all the innocence inside

The new wave, the masters and the slaves,
Intoxicated with lust.

Down comes the pedestal
and up goes the magic ball
And in it’s acrid essence
a series of events unfold.

Illusions or dreams being made,
directions to take.

When all is said & done,
and Karma has it’s way
The skeptic and his sons evaporate.
When all the plans we made are given right of way
The big fish in the little pond escapes.
Revealing his meaning, making waves…

In the school that collides, the reactions made
Propagate the chain across the new wave.
And in the sea beyond the tide is felt
And in this space and time desire swells.

The salt is no place for a fresh water raised carnivore
so clutching your beginnings sneak a little taste and then more.

The new wave, the sacrifice we made,
the proteges revealed.
Track Name: Ode to the Devil
The brightest stars are the first to fade,
And you may say that's just
the way that we are made.
Well candles are burning, and I guess
redemption is heading your way.

But still it seems to me,
That you could have had
more time than you did,
To lighten more lives
than those that you did,
And I wish you so much more
than all your dreams could give.

In this life or the next.
And I will miss laughing with you.

Burning out fast beats a slow decay.
And may the memories
trap an idol in his age.
No more confusion, free an angel
from his fleshy cage.
And who needs that anyway?

But still it seems to me,
That rational loss is still tainted with grief.
And we must confide in the chances we seized.
And I hope you find relief in knowing pride cocoons your image

Buried deep in me.