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She jumped right off the Hoover Dam - Left a note sayin’ : « If
If the world was but halfway grand,
I wouldn’t have to jump that cliff… »

She rose so high up in the sky - Just like a bird ‘d have flown
« Oh, if the world was but halfway lies,
I wouldn’t have to drop like stone… »

« From up here I can see the city lights
From here I can see the stars above
In the stillness of this desert flight
Impossibles are true – like – “love”…

A body lay on this riverbed
Her eyes a hollow blue – that said :
« If the world was but halfway dead,
We’d blink to see it through… »

« From down here I can grasp the endless sky
From here I’m the world and galaxy
In the stillness of this desert night
Impossibles are true – like – “We…”

Oh the water fills these lungs with forgiveness- And resonates like prayer, cold and damp
God bless the ones - still standing - God bless the ones –still standing
on Hoover Dam…

God bless the ones – still on… - on Hoover Dam…

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from The beauty of lost causes, released August 19, 2022
words by Michael Frei
music by Michael Frei & Emilie Roulet

Emilie Roulet: Shaman Drums, Vocals, Piano
Michael Frei: Vocals
Delphine Périllard Frei: Shaman Spirit
Chris Diggelmann : Recording, Mixing, Producing, Mastering
Main Recording : Mazzive Sound, Bellmund, CH, January 10/11 2021

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emilie roulet & michael frei Vevey, Switzerland

A quiet and melancholy songwriting dialogue between pianist Emilie Roulet and singer Michael Frei (both members of Swiss Pop/Folk Band Hemlock Smith) gives birth to a profoundly moving and surprising album.

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