MELODY GARDOT - SO WE MEET AGAIN MY HEARTACHE

SO WE MEET AGAIN MY HEARTACHE

MELODY GARDOT

SONGWRITER: GARDOT MELODY JOY

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE ABSENCE

LABEL: VERVE RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2012

Melody Gardot/ɡɑːrˈdoʊ/(born February 2, 1985) is an American jazz singer who has been influenced by such blues and jazz artists as Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz and George Gershwin as well as Latin music artists such as Caetano Veloso. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award.

At the age of 19, Gardot was involved in a bicycle accident and sustained a head injury. Music played a critical role in her recovery. She became an advocate of music therapy, visiting hospitals and universities to discuss its benefits. In 2012, she gave her name to a music therapy program in New Jersey.

Gardot started music lessons at the age of nine and began playing piano in Philadelphia bars at the age of 16 on Fridays and Saturdays for four hours a night. She insisted on playing only music she liked, such as The Mamas & the Papas, Duke Ellington, and Radiohead.

During her time in the hospital she learned how to play the guitar and began writing songs, which were made available as downloads on iTunes and released on Some Lessons: The Bedroom Sessions in 2005. She began to play these songs at venues in Philadelphia and was noticed by employees of the radio station WXPN, operated by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, which helped to start the career of Norah Jones. She was encouraged to send a demo tape to the radio station, and the tape found its way to the Universal Music Group. She released her first album, Worrisome Heart(Verve, 2006), then My One and Only Thrill(Verve 2009), produced by Larry Klein.

So we meet again my heartache

So we meet again my friend

I should've known that you'd return

The moment I was... ?

So we meet again my heartache

Like two lovers torn apart

Bound together by the breaking

Of a tired and torrid heart

So we meet again my heartache

Just as leaves begin to change

How you've made my life a story

Filled with whirls you've rearranged

So we meet again my heartache

Come and join me in my pain

You're the reason I remember

Every sweet and sad charade

So we meet again my heartache

Come and sit with me a while

Rest your head upon my shoulder

Hide your face beneath my smile

So we meet again my heartache

Hold the glasses stilled with wine

I hope you join me in my toast, my ghoulish host

And maybe stay a while this time.