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But A Girl

from For The Winter (2014) by Brenda Xu

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    The five years since Brenda Xu released her debut full-length album "A Little Illusion" have been filled with considerable change, all of which is apparent in her new record "For The Winter". After receiving numerous accolades for the debut, including a nomination for "Best Acoustic Artist" in the San Diego Music Awards, Brenda relocated to Seattle and took an indefinite hiatus from music, focusing on navigating her way through a new city and finding her place in the Seattle music scene.

    Slowly, the pieces fell into place: she became friends with Seattle-based producer Don Farwell and began forming a band to support her new songs. The years between Xu's debut and her newest release, "For The Winter", are immediately apparent. Not only has her ability as a lyricist grown far beyond her years, but sonically, the album is a noted departure from her past singer-songwriter career, and instead treads the delicate line between washed-out ambient tones and carefully crafted acoustic arrangements.

    "For The Winter" will transport any listener through a range of seasons and emotions, while reminding us that for every season's waxings and wanings, they all share one commonality: that they will eventually come again. Summer will continue to be followed by autumn, and winter by spring. As for Brenda Xu, she's leaving an unusually long winter behind and turning the leaf into her second spring.

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lyrics

when I met you I was but a girl
writing all her golden tales in the hills
oh you had loved me a long time ago
and all I had was this heart to fill

I was 17 when the weeds were high
fallen leaves that stole my heart from the skies
fall became winter and then it was gone
and soon I lost sight of you

and I changed in my heart
years passed by before it was known
slow like the leaves in the fall
I didn't notice that I changed at all

Chorus
it's been alright, and I am doing fine
all this winter I can't breathe now

told in my ear I could be yours
as you said it I believed
that it was me who you would keep
and all I saw was a boy

Chorus

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from For The Winter (2014), released September 18, 2014

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Brenda Xu Seattle, Washington

Ambient/folk artist with sounds reminiscent of Cat Power, Daughter, and Aimee Mann.

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