2005년 말 셀프 타이틀 데뷔 앨범[Corinne Bailey Rae]가 발매되자마자 영국에서 가장 잘 나가는 잭 존슨(Jack Johnson)의 [In Between Dreams]를 정상에서 끌어내리고 곧바로 1위로 데뷔를 하며 영국 미디어 사이에서 격한 폭풍을 몰고 있는 신예 여성 싱어송라이터 코린 배일리 래의 데뷔 앨범 [Corinne Bailey Rae].
영국 리즈(Leeds)에서 서인도제도 출신의 아버지와 요크서 출신 어머니 사이에서 태어난 혼혈의 코린 베일리 래는 어릴 적부터 성가대에서 노래하며 자연스럽게 가스펠과 블루스 감각을 익혔다. 사춘기 시절에는 우연히 얻은 일렉트릭 기타에 끌려 레드 제플린(Led Zeppelin)의 세계에 빠지게 되고 곧이어 전원 여성으로 이뤄진 얼터너티브 록 밴드 헬렌(Helen) 을 결성하게 된다. 이런 록 밴드의 경험은 첫 싱글 <Put Your Records On> 의 중간 훅 부분에서 당시 시절의 흔적을 읽을 수 있다. 빌리 할리데이(Billie Holiday) 그리고 그 전통 하에 블루스와 재즈의 합일을 구사한 ‘클래식 소울의 모던 주자들’ 에리카 바두(Erykah Badu), 메이시 그레이(Macy Gray), 로린 힐(Lauryn Hill)등과 자주 비견되는 그녀는 “어깨 힘을 뺀 채 유유히 흐르는 목소리, 마치 보듬어주는 듯하고 미묘하면서도 매우 순수한 느낌이다.”라는 찬사를 받고 있다. 팝과 소울, 재즈가 혼합되어 기품 있는 코린의 목소리는 부드럽고 재지(jazzy)한 동시에 도도하면서도 거친 싱싱함이 묻어 나온다.
총 11곡이 수록되어 있는 앨범의 그녀가 직접 쓴 모든 곡들은 막연한 사랑이야기가 아니라 사랑이 갖는 기대와 현실의 괴리를 묘사하고 있고, 그녀의 짙은 보이스는 진실한 내용의 러브스토리에 실려 더욱 진한 공감을 창출해 내고 있다. 개인적인 면을 드러내고 있는 <Like A Star> 가 지난해 EP로 처음 발표 되었을 때 영국의 모든 미디어는 일제히 호감을 표시하였다. 빌리 할리데이의 기품의 조각이 묻어 나오는 이 블루스 곡은 사랑스럽고 미묘한 그리고 굉장히 순수한 코린의 목소리가 듣는 이들의 귀를 사로잡고 있다. 부드러운 재즈 기타에 소울 비트와 달콤한 코러스가 함께 어우러진 아름다운 느낌의 첫 싱글 <Put Your Records On> 은 영국 Radio 1 과 Radio 2 에서 가장 많이 선곡된 곡 Top Ten 에 수 주 동안 랭크되었다. 그리고 뷰욕(Byork)과 매시브 어택(Massive Attack) 을 연상시키는 잔잔하면서도 마치 주술로 포박하는 것 같은 <Enchainment>는 마치 코린 자신을 압축적으로 정의하기 위해 만든 곡으로 보인다. 어느 특정한 카테고리 안에 넣을 수 없는 그녀의 유니크한 스타일은 데뷔 앨범 곳곳에 묻어 나오고 있다. ‘물 흐르듯 하면서도, 어쿠스틱의 명징함이 있고, 별나기도 하면서, 대기처럼 떠있으며 소울 감성이 넘치는’ 코린의 데뷔 앨범은 청자에게 잊을 수 없는 감동을 선사할 것이다. .... ....
Just like a star across my sky Just like an angel off the page You have appeared to my life Feel like I'll never be the same Just like a song in my heart Just like oil on my hands
Oh.. I do love you Still i wonder why it is I don't argue like this With anyone but you We do it all the time Blowing out my mind
You've got this look i can't describe You make me feel like I'm alive When everything else is a fade Without a doubt you're on my side Heaven has been away too long Can't find the words to write this song
Oh.. Your love Still i wonder why it is I don't argue like this with anyone but you We do it all the time Blowing out my mind
I have come to understand The way it is It's not a secret anymore 'cause we've been through that before From tonight I know that you're the only one I've been confused and in the dark Now I understand
I wonder why it is I don't argue like this with anyone but you I wonder why it is I wont let my guard down for anyone but you We do it all the time Blowing out my mind
Just like a star across my sky Just like an angel off the page You have appeared to my life Feel like I'll never be the same Just like a song in my heart Just like oil on my hands
I wait for you I don't know why all i know is i can't hide at this temperature you could take over my mind
like gossamer you softly touch he draws me in i'm powerless he possesses an enchantment tell me i'm forgiven he calls don't know how i fell under his spell lately i've been driven he smiles an enchantment
i wait for you I'm mesmerized this love is like a potion in disguise i'd tightrope walk with a blindfold on my eyes
I can't escape or so it seems I'd run away he's in my dreams he possesses an enchantment tell me i'm forgiven he calls don't know how i fell under his spell lately i've been driven he smiles an enchantment it's the kind of sleepwalk that never ends a type of loan with no dividends it's a parlour game where you're given chase guess it could be called an acquired taste i know he knows he calls i go i know this could be an enchantment why don't you tell me i'm forgiven he calls don't you know how i fell under his spell i'm forgiven lately i've been driven he smiles and i give in an enchantment
Three little birds sat on my window And they told me I don't need to worry Summer came like cinnamon So sweet Little girls double dutch on the concrete Maybe sometimes we got it wrong but it's alright The more things seem to change the more they stay the same Oh don't you hesitate Go put your records on tell me your favourite song You go ahead let your hair down Sapphire and faded jeans I hope you get your dreams Just go ahead let your hair down You're gonna find yourself somewhere somehow Blue as the sky sombre and lonely Sipping tea in the bar by the road side just relax just relax Don't you let those other boys fool you Gotta love that afro hairdo Maybe sometimes we feel afraid but it's alright The more you stay the same the more they seem to change Don't you think it's strange Go put your records on tell me your favourite song You go ahead let your hair down Sapphire and faded jeans I hope you get your dreams Just go ahead let your hair down You're gonna find yourself somewhere somehow Just more than I could take pity for pity's sake Some nights kept me awake I thought that I was stronger When you gonna realise that you don't even have to try any longer Do what you want to Go put your records on tell me your favourite song You go ahead let your hair down Sapphire and faded jeans I hope you get your dreams Just go ahead let your hair down Go put your records on tell me your favourite song You go ahead let your hair down Sapphire and faded jeans I hope you get your dreams Just go ahead let your hair down Oh You're gonna find yourself somewhere somehow
I know what i said was heat of moment but theres a little truth in between the words we've spoken it's a little late now to fix the heart thats broken please don't ask me where i'm going cuz i don't know no i don't know anymore It used to feel like heaven used to feel like may I used to hear those violins playing our strings like a symphony now they've gone away nobody wants to face the truth but you won't belive what love can do till it happens to you till it happens to you went to the old flat guess i was trying to turn clock back how come that nothing feels the same now when i'm with u we used to stay up all night in the kitchen when our love was new ooh love i'm a fool to believe in u cuz i don't know no i don't know anymore It used to feel like heaven It used to feel like may I used to hear those violins playing our strings like a symphony now they've gone away nobody wants to face the truth until their hearts broken don't u dare tell them what u think to do till they get over U can only learn these thing from experience when u get older I just wish that someone would have told me
It's late and I'm feeling so tired Having trouble sleeping This constant compromise Between thinking and breathing Could it be I'm suffering Because I'll never give in Won't say that I'm falling in love Tell me I don't see myself Couldn't I blame something else Don't say I'm falling in love Some kind of therapy Is all I need Please believe me Some instant remedy That can cure me completely Could it be I'm suffering Because I'll never give in Won't say that I'm falling in love Tell me I don't see myself Couldn't I blame something else Don't say I'm falling in love Cause I've been there before It's not enough So nobody say it Don't even say it I got my eyes shut Whoah no Whoah no no no Could it be I'm suffering Because I'll never give in Won't say that I'm falling in love Tell me I don't see myself Couldn't I blame something else Don't say I'm falling in love Don't say that I'm falling in love Don't say that I'm falling in love Don't say that I'm falling in love Don't say that I'm falling in love
Don't say that I'm falling in love Don't say that I'm falling in love Don't say that I'm falling in love Don't say that I'm falling in love Don't say that I'm falling in love
How does it feel being in these arms what's it really like to be loved
i've been alone now how long have you ever loved the way that i have and i have often wondered who who could love you the way i do now i just want you to know how i'm touched deep in my soul just being with you and i need you more each day baby if you're still awake call me when you get this i've got all this poetry now i didn't know then i kept inside guess i had never seen anything beautiful till i first saw you asleep at night and i have often wondered who who could love you the way i do now i just want you to know how i'm touched deep in my soul just being with you and i need you more each day baby if you're still awake call me when you get this
i just wanted to know what it was like what's it really like to be loved these little volcanoes came as a surprise to me i never thought i could be this way and i have been cautious and i've tried to keep to myself who could love you the way i do now i just want you to know how i'm touched deep in my soul just being with you so much more each day baby if you're still awake call me when you get this just want you to know touched deep in my soul being with you and i need you and i need you more each day if you're still awake call me when you get this
I was just waiting for your phonecall When they came along to say That a rose don't chase you clear away
You had said i was gamine But we didn't mean the same thing i think Broke my choux pastry heart Guess life's no picture postcard
One for sorrow Two for joy Sometimes you will lose Sometimes you lose Don't wanna lose ya Don't even own ya yeah I just wanna stay right here until never dawns yeah Oooh Mmmm I was just waiting for your answer Still you made your own apologies I cried so much I had to leave
Three for a girl Four for a boy oh Sometimes you will lose Sometimes you lose Don't wanna lose ya yeah Don't even own ya yeah I just wanna stay right here until never dawns yeah Oooh Oooh
Seems like everyone else has a love just for them I don't mind we have such a good time My best friend but sometimes well I wish we could be more than friends Tell me do you know Tell me do you know oh I get so breathless when you call my name I've often wondered do you feel the same There's a chemistry energy synchronicity When we're all alone So don't tell me You can't see What i'm thinking of
I can understand that you don't want to cross the line and you know i can't primise you things will turn out fine But i have to be honest I want you to be mine Tell me do you know Tell me do you know oh I get so breathless when you call my name I've often wondered do you feel the same There's a chemistry energy synchronicity When we're all alone So don't tell me You can't see Oh Cause i've tried to do this right in your own time I've been telling you with my eyes my heart's on fire Why don't you realise Tell me do you know Tell me do you know I get so breathless when you call my name I've often wondered do you feel the same There's a chemistry energy synchronicity When we're all alone So don't tell me You can't see oh What i'm thinking of I get so breathless when you call my name I've often wondered do you feel the same There's a chemistry energy synchronicity When we're all alone So don't tell me You can't see What i'm thinking of
Lying with you reminds me of those days Me and Candice waking up to a heat wave Mother's in the garden inviting everyone Ooh, we pull up our old jeans and go outside Neighbour's always smiling with the baby on her knee Mia's sitting on the front step getting her hair combed out in weaves Music, bass is boomin' from the car parked in the street Got that new song on repeat, oh oh
I'd, I'd like to put my fingers on you I'd, I'd like to paint a picture for you Sometimes you don't understand where I'm coming from I just like to make a scene I just like the sympathy
Growing up we didn't have a lot of money Used to spend my summer having parties on the drive Plastic cups for all and punch, eating chicken that's hot and sweet Women discussing what love is like, ooh you know what I mean And I'm just sitting watching hoping the boys will call for me Got that new song on repeat, oh oh
I'd, I'd like to put my fingers on you I'd, I'd like to paint a picture for you Sometimes you don't understand where I'm coming from I just like to make a scene I just like the sympathy
Maybe then I will know I want somebody Maybe then I used to dream of someone to love Now you come and you invite me I know I'm in love
I'd, I'd like to put my fingers on you I'd, I'd like to paint this picture for you Sometimes you don't understand where I'm coming from I just like to make a scene I just like the sympathy I'd, I'd like to put my fingers on you I'd, I'd like to paint a picture for you Sometimes you don't understand where I'm coming from I just like to make a scene I just like the sympathy
In my mother's house there's a photograph of a day gone past always makes me laugh There's a little girl wary of the world she got much to learn get her fingers burned an infinty between you and me coz we're family said that i'd be fine give me all your time and I left your side like a butterfly shower me with your love all of everyday you make the red rose sunshine on me lift me up so high watch me fly away would you give me a life like a butterfly
In my mother's house there was happiness I ride my myself in it was my cresolence as my life unfolds see a pattern through of you protecting me and i protecting you what was i to say make your own mistakes and when you woke make sure that you remain the same now i realise what was on your mind when i left your side like a butterfly shower me with your love all of everyday you make the red rose sunshine on me lift me up so high watch me fly away would you give me a life like a butterfly
shower me with your love all of everyday you make the red rose sunshine on me lift me up so high watch me fly away and you give me a life like a butterfly
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh maybe you've been puoring everything into this your mistake of this attends to agony you contradict this when it comes to it you can't hide from me but don't you surrender anything don't you know that that passion's season avert you yes it is and life is a waiting game don't you know that peace must be learned to you and all the money in the world can buy you nothing i tell you that all these things i've found all these things i've done for a reason don't you go on and through it all the way when the seasons change you gonna change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh hurts me to see you feel this way but it won't be always don't you know everything got to change oh feel like all your opens gone you can't carry on but there's nothing oh you don't have to pretend with me don't you know that that passion's season avert you yes it is and life is a waiting game don't you know that peace must be learned to you all the money in the world can buy you nothing let me tell you that all these things i've found all these things i've done for a reason don't you go on through it all the way when the seasons change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Yeah oh when the seasons change
Working from seven to eleven every night, It really makes life a drag, I don't think that's right. I've really, really been the best of fools, I did what I could. 'Cause I love you, baby, How I love you, darling, How I love you, baby, How I love you, girl, little girl. But baby, Since I've Been Loving You. I'm about to lose my worried mind, oh, yeah. Everybody trying to tell me that you didn't mean me no good. I've been trying, Lord, let me tell you, Let me tell you I really did the best I could. I've been working from seven to eleven every night, I said It kinda makes my l ife a drag. Lord, that ain't right... Since I've Been Loving You, I'm about to lose my worried mind. Said I've been crying, my tears they fell like rain, Don't you hear, Don't you hear them falling, Don't you hear, Don't you hear them falling. Do you remember mama, when I knocked upon your door? I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more, yeah I open my front door, hear my back door slam, You must have one of them new fangled back door man. I've been working from seven, seven, seven, to eleven every night, It kinda makes my life a drag... Baby, Since I've Been Loving You, I'm about to lose, I'm about lose to my worried mind.
I awake to the drip drop of icicles Melting outside my window Everything was new
I had noticed a bird and seen Cherry blossom was falling like confetti What is happening to me these days?
I, I got intuition, oh I, I had my suspicions I'm in love with you It feels like springtime
Emeraldine, apple seed, olive green intense Colors unfurl like petals in a time lapse sequence Feels like something in embryo My heart melts like two inches of snow in April's glow
What's this urgency? What's this heat I'm feeling? Could I say I'm dreaming? Do I change my ways? What is happening to me these days?
I, I got intuition, oh I, I had my suspicions I'm in love with you I, I got intuition, oh I, I had my suspicions I'm in love with you It feels like springtime
there's no love there's no lovechild there's no love baby there's no love for your child
well I've been searching high i've been searching low feel this completeness everywhere that i go maybe if i just keep walking, walking, walking through my mind i'll stumble on it somewhere and somehow in this space and time i will lose my worrying mind
where's the love where's the love where's the love where's the love
and the sunlight hurts my eyes i got to open what's inside i saw this feeling i got to hide pulling down my pride precious love i hold inside strangers eyes smile wide at me been looking for peace of mind i've been looking in the wrong direction
oh, give me your love sweet baby give me your love sweet child
give me your love sweet baby give me your love sweet child
I wait for you I don't know why all i know is i can't hide at this temperature you could take over my mind
like gossamer you softly touch he draws me in i'm powerless he possesses an enchantment tell me i'm forgiven he calls don't know how i fell under his spell lately i've been driven he smiles an enchantment
i wait for you I'm mesmerized this love is like a potion in disguise i'd tightrope walk with a blindfold on my eyes
I can't escape or so it seems I'd run away he's in my dreams he possesses an enchantment tell me i'm forgiven he calls don't know how i fell under his spell lately i've been driven he smiles an enchantment it's the kind of sleepwalk that never ends a type of loan with no dividends it's a parlour game where you're given chase guess it could be called an acquired taste i know he knows he calls i go i know this could be an enchantment why don't you tell me i'm forgiven he calls don't you know how i fell under his spell i'm forgiven lately i've been driven he smiles and i give in an enchantment
Lying with you reminds me of those days Me and Candice waking up to a heat wave Mother's in the garden inviting everyone Ooh, we pull up our old jeans and go outside Neighbour's always smiling with the baby on her knee Mia's sitting on the front step getting her hair combed out in weaves Music, bass is boomin' from the car parked in the street Got that new song on repeat, oh oh
I'd, I'd like to put my fingers on you I'd, I'd like to paint a picture for you Sometimes you don't understand where I'm coming from I just like to make a scene I just like the sympathy
Growing up we didn't have a lot of money Used to spend my summer having parties on the drive Plastic cups for all and punch, eating chicken that's hot and sweet Women discussing what love is like, ooh you know what I mean And I'm just sitting watching hoping the boys will call for me Got that new song on repeat, oh oh
I'd, I'd like to put my fingers on you I'd, I'd like to paint a picture for you Sometimes you don't understand where I'm coming from I just like to make a scene I just like the sympathy
Maybe then I will know I want somebody Maybe then I used to dream of someone to love Now you come and you invite me I know I'm in love
I'd, I'd like to put my fingers on you I'd, I'd like to paint this picture for you Sometimes you don't understand where I'm coming from I just like to make a scene I just like the sympathy I'd, I'd like to put my fingers on you I'd, I'd like to paint a picture for you Sometimes you don't understand where I'm coming from I just like to make a scene I just like the sympathy
1.Loving you is hard Loving you is wonderful When you are holding back It seem so imposible
Tell me why~~I try Do control what's on your mind When you shouldn't be here by my side You shoudn't be making me cry
* so don't go say yeah~ contemplated That I'm bed to offer lord cause you're amazing and drive me crazy when you're gonna know~~~ but you're too fright to let it show but I won't let you lie to yourself
2.You got it in your head I went made someone else not you~ It's a little late you may come and dreams come true
Tell me why~~I try Do control what's on your mind where you should be here by my side you shoudn't be making me cry
You don't need to worry I got all the time in the world for you babe~ When you're here in my arm You're gonna feel it I keep on telling you Tell you belive me
i got taken in We feasted on olives from the fridge We stood the whole lonely day We made love all afternoon Til the stars went blue You wrote a ballad We dined on oysters and champagne That's it seemed like We connect in so many ways So easy I must say Why am I so shy around you Why am I so shy Why do I take care to astound you Why do I even try Another rainy day We sat inside by the radiator Watching old black and white films Where everybody sang You played in my solitude Didn't get dressed 'til 2 The rain says all I wrote this song on my guitar But it didn't turn out right So we just connected in other ways So easy I must say Why am I so shy around you Why am I so shy Why do I take care to astound you Why do I even try Why am I so shy around Why so shy Why do I take care Why do I even try
Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you Look at my mind floating away
He's the kind of guy that would say Hey, baby let's get away Let's go some place, huh Well I don't care He's the kind of guy that you give your everything You trust your heart, share all of your love Till death do you part
I want to be what he wants When he wants it and whenever he needs it When he's lonesome and feelin' love starved I'll be there to feed it I'm lovin' him a little bit more each day Turns me right on when I hear him say
Hey, baby, let's get away Let's go somewhere huh Baby can we Well, I don't care Hey baby let's get away Let's go somewhere huh Baby can we Well, I don't care
I wanna be what he wants when he wants it And whenever he needs it And when he's lonesome and feelin' loved starved I'll be there to feed it Lovin' him a little bit more each day It turns me right on when I hear him say
Hey, baby, let's get away Let's go somewhere huh Baby can we Well, I don't care
Hey baby let's get away Let's go somewhere huh Baby can we Well, I don't care
Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you Look at my love floating away Daydreaming of you Daydreaming Thinking of you