Cidny Bullens - LITTLE PIECES

ALBUM CREDIT AND LYRICS

LITTLE PIECES

RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 27, 2023

PRODUCED by Ray Kennedy and Cidny Bullens

RECORDED at the world famous Room & Board Studio, Nashville, TN

ENGINEERED by Ray Kennedy

MIXED by Ray Kennedy with Cidny Bullens

MASTERED by Ray Kennedy

BAND:

ELECTRIC/LEAD/SLIDE GUITAR: George Marinelli*

VOCALS/ACOUSTIC GUITAR/MANDOLIN/SYNTHESIZER/

ELECTRIC SITAR/HARMONICA: Cidny Bullens*

KEYBOARDS: Mark T. Jordan*

BASS: Steve Mackey

DRUMS: Lynn Williams

PERCUSSION: Ray Kennedy

*ELECTRIC LEAD GUITAR: Stanton Edward on “Lucky For Me”

*ELECTRIC RHYTHM GUITAR: Cidny Bullens

*STRING SYNTHESIZER: Cidny Bullens on “Walkin’ Through This World”

on “Walkin’ Through This World”

*ELECTRIC LEAD GUITAR: Cidny Bullens on “Crack The Sky”

*ELECTRIC GUITAR: Cidny Bullens on “Healing The Break”

*LEAD GUITAR: Ray Kennedy on “Purgatory Road”

*RICKENBACKER ELECTRIC 12 STRING: Ray Kennedy on “Little Pieces”

*ACOUSTIC GUITAR: Ray Kennedy on “Crack The Sky”

GUEST VOCALS:

RODNEY CROWELL on “The Gender Line”

DEBORAH HOLLAND on “Sugartown”

SIOBHAN KENNEDY on “Laugh In The Rain”

Photo: Joanne Berman

HARRY STINSON on “Call Me By My Name”

REID BULLENS CREWE on “Healing The Break”

MARY GAUTHIER, BETH NIELSON CHAPMAN, BILL LLOYD, JESS LEARY, MICHAEL KELSH, SIOBHAN KENNEDY on “Walkin’ Through This World”

BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN, SIOBHAN KENNEDY with CIDNY BULLENS on “Little Pieces”

Reid Crewe’s vocal recorded by Bob Colwell at The Root Cellar, Hallowell, Maine

Deborah Holland’s vocal recorded by Winston Hauschild at Little Island Studio, Bowen Island, BC, Canada

SONGS:

1. Little Pieces
2. Purgatory Road
3. Walkin’ Through This World
4. The Gender Line
5. Crack The Sky

6. Sugartown

7.. Not With You (Featuring Beth Nielsen Chapman)

8. Laugh In The Rain
9. Call Me By My Name

10. Lucky For me*

11. Healing The Break

All songs written by Cidny Bullens

and “Not With You” (Cidny Bullens/Beth Nielsen Chapman) @2023 Red Dragonfly Music/BMI and Songs of Prismlight Music (PRS World exc USA and Canada/SESAC USA and Canada)

Rodney Crowell appears courtesy of RC1 Records

Beth Nielsen Chapman appears courtesy of BNC Records

Mary Gauthier appears courtesy of Thirty Tigers

Bill Lloyd appears courtesy of Spyderpop Records

CONTACT: CID BULLENS

cid@cidnybullens.com

cidnybullens.com

(207) 831-0080

LYRICS

LITTLE PIECES

Flat on the floor my face to the ground

I grumble a word but I make so sound

Haven't you noticed that I disappeared

I'm not here

Boxes of photos are strewn on the bed

Snapshots of memories fall out of my head

Someone's existence has gone up in smoke

It's my own

Little pieces falling away

Every day, every day

Little pieces, little pieces

Falling away

My head in the clouds I stand in the rain

I need to know if the rain feels the same

Water is water as it hits my skin

I breathe in

Little pieces falling away

Every day, every day

Little pieces, little pieces

Falling away

Somedays I worry myself

What will I become?

Remember I made up my mind to do what I've done

Anyway it's too late now

Get up off the floor

Little pieces falling away

Every day, every day

Little pieces, little pieces

Falling away...

Written by Cidny Bullens

PURGATORY ROAD

I felt the hot black tar beneath my shiftin' feet

I heard the rumble of the fire before I felt the heat

Like a moth to a flame, I felt my wings explode

Now I find myself stumblin' down Purgatory Road

I got a hole in my pocket and it's drivin' me mad

I'm losin' every little bit of any sense I had

I'm in a whole lot of trouble, it's a fact I know

Cause I can't see what's comin' down Purgatory Road

Did I leave myself stranded?

Did I get myself lost?

There's no goin' back over

All those lines I've crossed

There's nothin' I can do now

'Cept carry my own load

And just keep on walkin' down Purgatory Road

Down Purgatory Road

I heard somebody whisper, I heard somebody shout

There's nothin' you want down there and there's no way out

But fools rush in and the wise man knows

You best not get caught down Purgatory Road

Written by Cidny Bullens

WALKIN' THROUGH THIS WORLD

Some may walk on the wild side

Of course you can walk like a man

I'm walkin' through this world

As exactly who I am

You can't see me now

And you couldn't see me then

But I'll keep walkin' through this world

As exactly who I am

You know I've done a great workaround all my life

What you see is what you get

But I grew tired of tryin' to fit a square peg in a round hole

I want a life with no regrets

Now these boots were made for walkin'

I feel like I could walk around the sun

My travels as a man in this world

Have only just begun

Doo doo doo doo doo...

Now all my years that brought me here

Were full of light and love and loss

I wouldn't trade one single minute

No matter what it cost

So you can walk this way

Or you can walk on by

But unless you walk a mile in my shoes

You won't know my walk of life

Doo doo doo doo doo...

So some may walk on the wild side

Of course you can walk like a man

I'm walkin' through this world

As exactly who I am

You can't see me now

And you couldn't see me then

But I'll keep walkin' through this world

As exactly who I am

Doo doo doo doo doo doo...

Written by Cidny Bullens

THE GENDER LINE

If you were me what would you do

You look in the mirror and it's not really you

You fumble around for something to wear

You feel invisible, you're not really there

Would you think you were crazy

And out of your mind

You're not in your body

You're living a lie

There's a train in the station

There's a car in the drive

But they can't take me over the gender line

No they won't take me over the gender line

I knew about a young man in my little town

Kept to himself and didn't run with the crowd

Wicked secrets locked up in his head

A vicious monster hiding under his bed

There was no reason in anyone's mind

What would posess him to take his own life

There's a train in the station

Planes lined up to fly

But they couldn't take him over the gender line

No they couldn't take her over the gender line

Are you a boy or are you a girl?

It's an easy answer in a binary world

There's a boat in the harbor

Planes lined up to fly

But they can't take you over the gender line

No they won't take you over the gender line

I had to crawl over the gender line

Written by Cidny Bullens

CRACK THE SKY

In an casual conversation

I whisper on the side

I mention just in passing, I could die

There's nowhere I can run to

I know my time is runnin' out

I feel the paradigm shifting

There's no doubt, not a doubt

I need to crack the sky

Can I fly beyond my Universe

Oh you ask can I crack the sky?

It's indeed a world of wonder

And at times a grand charade

I won't walk the path before me unafraid

So I pray for navigation

The way is thick with fog and rain

Searching for a road to follow

But in vain, all in vain

I need to crack the sky

Break the glass that holds my Universe

Oh you ask can I crack the sky?

Hey can I come back

Will I come back alive?

Crack the sky

I'm gonna fly beyond my Universe

Oh you ask can I crack the sky?

Crack the sky...

Written by Cidny Bullens

SUGARTOWN

I got a problem with my thinkin'

My head want to take me down

When my motivation's shrinkin'

I know I gotta turn it around

As I wander in the darkness

I hesitate to think out loud

But you're layin' right beside me

Baby take me to Sugartown

Weave me in your magic spell

Pull me closer to your soul

With your sweet lips upon my own

It makes me love you even more

In my momentary lapses

You dare me to dig down deep

Then you send me straight to Heaven

Like a prayer that you're sayin' on me

I can learn from my transgressions

Takes me a while to come around

All of time takes on perfection

Baby take me to Sugartown

Weave me in your magic spell

Pull me closer to your soul

With your sweet skin upon my own

It makes me love you even more

I got a problem with my thinkin'

My head want to take me down

When my motivation's shrinkin'

I know I gotta turn it around

As I wander in the darkness

I hesitate to think out loud

But you're layin' right beside me

Baby take me to Sugartown

Written by Cidny Bullens

NOT WITH YOU

By Cidny Bullens & Beth Nielsen Chapman

I started believing

There’s no such thing as love for me

I settled for easy

And I let go of all my dreams

Love’s a chance that’s hard to take

Knowing that my heart could break

It’s nothing but a big mistake

A crazy thing to do

But not with you

I knew in a moment

Life became so crystal clear

I thought I was dreaming

The walls began to disappear

I had every chance at love

But It had never been enough

So what’s this voice from up above?

Such a crazy thing to do

But not with you

Of every star that’s in the sky

I found you

You’re everything that I’ve

Been waiting for

Love’s a chance that’s hard to take

Knowing that my heart could break

It’s nothing but a big mistake

A crazy thing to do

But not with you

CALL ME BY MY NAME

All this soul chasin' aint all it's cracked up to be

I swear on my future grave it's gonna be the death of me

Sometimes I think I must have done somethin' Gawd-awful

In one of my previous lives and it keeps on comin' back to me

Hey are you there?

In the sky or wherever the Grace lives

I pray for some time

Just to breathe, to find where my place is

And please call me by my name

Well I ran to my mama when I was four years of age

Oh I cried in the kitchen, Ma there's been some mistake

She looked at me and smiled like she knew somethin' I didn't

When I said I was born wrong, she said "Honey, you're just a little different."

Well I had my own two kids but I raised only one

That force that I reckon with took one to the sun

Now since I last checked in there's been a little change

My daughter said, "What do I call you, Ma?" I said "Call me by my name!"

Hey are you there?

In the sky or wherever the Grace lives

I pray for some time

Just to breathe, to find where my place is

And please, please call me by my name

Now to make things more confusing I just took on a wife

She says I'm perfect just the way I am and she sure has changed my life

But sometimes I'm still wary of how this world may change

But I guess it doesn't really matter cause she calls me by my name

Hey are you there?

In the sky or wherever the Grace lives

I pray for some time

Just to breathe, to find where my place is

And please call me by my name

Please, please, please call me by my name

Written by Cidny Bullens

LAUGH IN THE RAIN

Laugh in the rain

Cry in the sun

No tellin' how this day will end

Sure not like it's begun

I had a dream

Maybe a few

I remember when I lost them all

The one day they all came true

So laugh in the rain

Cry in the sun

No tellin' how this day will end

Sure not like it's begun

Some say it's wrong

Some say it's right

All I know is that the sun goes down

And the moon comes up at night

Well it ain't black

No it ain't white

All I know is that I love you so

So baby let's hold on tight

How could I know after all that I've been through

The day I met you baby was the day my dreams came true

So laugh in the rain

Cry in the sun

No tellin' how this day will end

Sure not like it's begun

How could I know after all that I've been through

The day I met you baby was the day my dreams came true

So laugh in the rain

Cry in the sun

No tellin' how this day will end

Sure not like it's begun

Written by Cidny Builens

LUCKY FOR ME

Call of the wild

Luck of the draw

Never did I think I'd get this far

Tweedle-dee-dum, Tweedle-dee-dee

Alive and kickin'

Lucky for me

I'm ringin' the bell

The party goes on

You can never tell if you'll live this long

Tweedle-dee-dum, Tweedle-dee-dee

Alive and kickin'

Lucky for me

Down in the bottom of my bag of tricks

One little thing that can never be fixed

Oh I know the day will finally come

Before the reaper greets me face to face

I better step up and stake my place

And no time to waste-let you're mojo run

Tweedle-dee-dum, Tweedle-dee-dee

Alive and kickin'

Lucky for me

Only so much time in this bag o' bones

I'll be raisin' up a ruckus till they draggin' me home

Tweedle-dee-dum, Tweedle-dee-dee

Alive and kickin'

Lucky for me

Written by Cidny Bullens and Ray Kennedy

HEALING THE BREAK

I'm holding my own

I'm doin' all right

I'm finding my way through this curious life

I don't understand

Not even a clue

But some days I think I do

I felt this before when I sun comes up

Lending it's light to the day

When breathing comes easy

And worry fades away

It's all about healing the break

A part of me's broken

There's no doubt of that

Like weeds in the sidewalk life grows in the cracks

I'm not one on wishing for magical things

But one sweet little red bird keeps flapping her wings

I felt this before when I sun comes up

Lending it's light to the day

When breathing comes easy

And worry fades away

It's all about healing the break

Written by Cidny Bullens

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