House

Description:
BARBRA LICA - Vocalist
LOU POMANTI - Acoustic piano

STYLE AND MOOD:  A female vocal and piano ballad expressing concern and loss.

THEME:  A bittersweet narrative by a woman selling her house and experiencing feelings of loss and displacement…and concern for the stray cat that she fed.

Lyrics:
This house has seven rooms
A wonderful back view
And everywhere
The scent of lilacs in the air

I wonder if you care
To climb this old pine stair
And see the second floor
You’ve never seen before

It’s good to hear
The floor boards creak
I polished them the other week
For you

The light reflecting
From the windows
Only happens after four
I’ll show you more

Take the door that’s on your right
And I’ll turn on the light
See the pretty pictures hanging
On the wall

I took them all last fall
To make sure that I’d recall
A wonderful vacation
By the sea

But it sure was nice to come back home
There’s lots of rooms
That I can roam
Around in

The tree you see
Outside the window
Only blossoms after May
What did you say?

This house was built in ’84
A century ago
And getting older by the minute
Does it show

But it’s solid on the ground
Even though it’s been around
I’ll miss it more and more
Than words can ever say

You’ve bought a piece of property
But you have also bought a part of me

The cat that’s calling at the window
only visits once a month
Please give it lunch

Artist Bio:
BARBRA LICA is considered one of the best female vocalists in Canada.  Please go to www.barbralica.com for more information. 

Award winning LOU POMANTI accompanies Barbra on acoustic piano.  Please go to www.loupomanti.com for bio and credits.

Writer Bio:
MICHELE CHICOINE writes intimate songs that reflect a mature woman’s experience with relationships…the love, the yearning, the fear of abandonment…and eternal hopefulness.  She crafts unique and focused imagery to portray the mood and emotion of the character in each song.