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Dream Big

by Soda Blonde

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1.
Lying low Dancing slow Everything is changing but I don’t grow Tell me though If you know Never mind I have a midnight show Red sky at night I drift through the moors I see a young man I like how he moves I don’t speak his language But that is fine I’m not understood nearly all of the time Lying low Dancing slow Everything is changing but I don’t grow Tell me though If you know Never mind I have a midnight show He asked what I do I said that I sing He said I’m afraid that’s not worth a thing That made me sad I felt like a fool I could dance for some money Wait is that not cool? Lying low Dancing slow Everything is changing but I don’t grow Tell me though If you know Never mind I have a midnight show I’ve been told I’m a pro It was never what I wanted though Tell me though If you know Never mind I have a midnight show Breaking my own heart again Dancing for money Be as it may Some people they said it wasn’t ok But I bled from the mark You pushed with a shove You’ll all get a turn I mean heavens above Dancing for money What can I say The moons changed it’s orbit And nobody came I lay in the heather Started to cry I just wanted to sing But I’m not good enough am I? Lying low Dancing slow Everything is changing but I don’t grow Tell me though If you know Never mind I have a midnight show I’ve been told I’m a pro It was never what I wanted though Tell me though If you know Never mind I have a midnight show
2.
Bad Machine 03:28
What did I hear you say What did I hear you say I thought I was to blame What did I hear you say I want to live But I don’t like lonely Take me alive Or baby drive it in slowly Every part of me like a bad machine Breaking everything all the time Every part of me has been wired to repeat I’ve got a bad desire by design What did I hear you say baby I thought I was a game I want to live But I don’t like lonely Take me alive I’ll be going til morning Every part of me like a bad machine Breaking everything all the time Every part of me has been wired to repeat I’ve got a bad desire by design Every part of me like a bad machine Breaking everything all the time Every part of me has been wired to repeat I’ve got a bad desire by design Every part of me like a bad machine With a big bad dream on the line But every part of me has been wired to believe That it’s a bad desire of my design
3.
Boys 03:43
Somebody’s been yelling in my head That you’re the wrong one Somebody’s been spelling it out for me That I am too strong for you Ooh ooh Can you imagine it Ooh ooh I get it You only tell me when it’s too late to deny it I know that you’ll do this Again and again and again I never knew that you were two sided Too guided by your boys all saying Again and again and again and again I can see you dreading a loneliness But I can help you Should have known what it was that you had Now can you please move Ooh ooh You are so damaging Ooh ooh Now I get it You only tell me when it’s too late to deny it I know that you’ll do this Again and again and again I never knew that you were two sided Too guided by your boys all saying Again and again and again and again You only tell me when it’s too late to deny it I know that you’ll do this Again and again and again You’re gonna see that I am too good to pass by And you will never do this Again and again and again and again You know you did it to yourself I know you did You know you did it to yourself I know you did You know you did it to yourself I know you did You know you did it to yourself I know you did You only tell me when it’s too late to deny it I know that you’ll do this Again and again and again I never knew that you were two sided Too guided by your boys all saying Again and again and again and again You only tell me when it’s too late to deny it I know that you’ll do this Again and again and again You’re gonna see that I am too good to pass by And you will never do this Again and again and again and again
4.
Dream Big 04:56
I know what I am I know what I could be Put me in place But nothing can hold me I won’t hide I thought it out loud I’m screaming in public You’re oh so polite I’m sick to my stomach I won’t lie Dream big like everyone baby Take all of everything darling It’s only sad from the outside How’s about you try I play with my glass You’re laying the table This home is safe This city’s not able I won’t lie to you I try to embrace this wave as it’s breaking I picture your face Mistakes I’m still making I can’t cry no more Dream big like everyone baby Take all of everything darling It’s only sad from the outside How’s about you try Dream big like everyone maybe Take all of everything darling It’s only sad from the outside How’s about you try Dream big like everyone baby Take all of everything darling It’s only sad from the outside How’s about you try Dream big like everyone baby Take all of everything darling It’s only sad from the outside How’s about you try Dream big like everyone baby Take all of everything darling It’s only sad from the outside How’s about you try
5.
Space Baby 04:21
Stitch me up and hold me I’ve been hurting you they told me I’ve got all of the time in the world to unwind If you’re paying Talking, bitching, bruising Are you stopping me from using it I’ve got all of the time in the world to unwind If you’re paying Say what you want You didn’t listen I was so polite No opposition Now I don’t give a what Give a what What do you want want I need space, baby I need space, baby I need space maybe Why do you call me baby anymore Life is so uncertain Bang my head against the skirting Would you marry me still If I don’t know myself any better Put me on your shoulder Can’t admit that I am older I’ve got every mistake As a line on my face and an answer Say what you want You didn’t listen I was so polite No opposition Now I don’t give a what Give a what What do you want want I need space, baby I need space, baby I need space maybe Why do you call me baby anymore I need space, baby I need space, baby I need space maybe Why do you call me baby anymore I need space, baby I need space, baby I need space maybe Why do you call me baby anymore
6.
WWDWD 03:38
My mind oh Has been ravaged Gave my guts up To a savage Everybody knows That I ran out of rights To speak from My heart now it’s famished When we die we die oh But so does everyone ever so I know oh When we die we die oh So I won’t ever just ever be alone When we die we die oh But so does everyone ever so I know oh When we die we die oh Would you Let me speak frankly Life is a machine And you might thank me I think that you should let go Of all of that shit you did I can’t let go of mine Who’s the hypocrite When we die we die oh But so does everyone ever so I know oh When we die we die oh So I won’t ever just ever be alone When we die we die oh But so does everyone ever so I know oh When we die we die oh So I won’t ever just ever be alone When we die we die oh But so does everyone ever so I know oh When we die we die oh So I won’t ever just ever be alone
7.
An Accident 04:59
Oh man I’ve been trying to make it from A to B But I can’t seem to pay what I owe Daddy I’m not become what I would want you to see I let go I let go Ooh ooh ooh Oh see the metal I have put inside of me But it wasn’t the key I’m locked out Mama it wasn’t the banker who tore me up It was your joke An accident can happen at any time Should be glad I’m alive To stand by your side An accident can happen at any time Should be glad I’m alive Along for the ride with you Ooh ooh ooh “Damage was done to the heart”, they said casually The scrape of the pen on clipboard Lordy I’m glad that somebody could see the pain And it’s not just in my mind An accident can happen at any time Should be glad I’m alive To stand by your side An accident can happen at any time Should be glad I’m alive Along for the ride with you Ooh ooh ooh An accident can happen at any time Should be glad I’m alive To stand by your side An accident can happen at any goddamn time Should be glad I’m alive To see all these sides of you
8.
I want to be clear I want it in the drivers seat Between my teeth You know that it’s sad But they said he was a lucky man Such a young girlfriend I don’t really care what anybody says I t’s never gonna phase me Lady Madonna has gotten to lazy Gonna make you be fair Go make those cheques out to my first name Gonna make you be scared of me I’ll make your night and ruin your day I want to be clean I wish that photo didn’t exist I know we were kids I try new skin I’m wishing I’m an only son Disappointing someone I don’t really care what anybody says It’s never gonna phase me Maybe tomorrow you’ll understand it baby Gonna make you be fair Go make those cheques out to my first Gonna make you be fair to me You know the night I mean, ok? Gonna make you be scared It is not ok Gonna make you be fair to me I’ll make your night and ruin your day Gonna make you be fair Go make those cheques out to my first Gonna make you be fair to me You know the night I mean, ok? Gonna make you be scared It is not ok Gonna make you be fair to me I’ll make your night and ruin your day
9.
Take my hand up Take my hand up And I will show you what it’s like to be enraged Pull my fist up Pull my fist up And you will quickly see that I don’t really understand Like waves Your shelling starts in waves They hit me hard These days I’m finding it’s harder to cry And I said How many bullets do you have to sell How many bullets do you have to sell Why Die For Danzig Why Die For Danzig Hold my head up Hold my head up And I will tell you what it’s like to be enraged Pull my heart out Pull my heart out And you quickly see that I don’t want to understand Like waves Your shelling starts in waves They hit me hard These days I’m finding it’s harder to cry And I said How many bullets do you have to sell How many bullets do you have to sell Why Die For Danzig Why Die For Danzig
10.
When, when’d we get so lifeless Sewn into the lining of the couch baby When, when you knew every single answer To the quiz on the TV I thought now isn’t that romantic When, when I was lying in the bed beside you I thought about the girls in the boxes in Amsterdam and I I felt I was holier then them but also Kind of a bit sick Because I knew that I was jealous Tell me I am less than nothing Straight into the arms of something Nothings getting easier Nothings getting easier Easier Easier Easier When, when we fell out of the taxi onto Bond Street I talked about all the bad thing I had ever done I thought it was the beginning of the decline But then the most amazing thing Was that your hand returned to mine And I said Tell me I am less than nothing Straight into the arms of something Nothings getting easier Nothings getting easier Easier Easier Easier Tell me I am less than nothing Straight into the arms of someone Nothings getting easier Nothings getting easier Easier Easier Easier
11.
Going Out 07:19
Tell me where I’m going Going out Going out Probably should have eaten something Going out Going out Everyone is busy but Never stopped me from Going out Going out You shed me in so many pieces So many So how many pieces You shed me in so many pieces So long I know that I’ve been entitled My whole life That’s why I’m going out Going out Hoping that I’ll run into Someone like you When I’m going out Going out You shape me in so many pieces So many So how many pieces You shape me in so many pieces So long Ooh darling I... Ooh darling I... Doesn’t have you hands and eyes But it was enough Going out Going out Will it ever be the night That will stop me from Going out Going out You shed me in so many pieces So many So how many pieces You shed me in so many pieces So long You shape me in so many pieces So many So how many pieces You shape me in so many pieces So long Ooh darling I... Ooh darling I... You shed me in so many pieces So many So how many pieces You shed me in so many pieces So long

about

“I know what I am. I know what I could be. Put me in my place but nothing can hold me.”
- ‘Dream Big’, Soda Blonde

Dream Big, the second studio album from Irish band Soda Blonde, is far more than a collection of catchy and cathartic pop songs; it’s a mantra – a mission statement from four lifelong friends. It’s their promise to themselves, and a message to all who come along for the ride: A reminder that life is precious, fragile, and fleeting, so we might as well dream big and hold nothing back.

Following two successful introductory EPs (2019's “Terrible Hands” and 2020's “Isolation Content”), they released their debut album, “Small Talk”, in 2021. The LP was subsequently nominated for RTÉ’s Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year and received rave reviews from Paste Magazine, Atwood Magazine, and The Irish Times, who called it "a record so articulate and expressive that its title has to be a wry in-joke."

The band have grown tremendously in the two years since their debut, and it shows. Whereas “Small Talk” was an anxiety-fuelled coming-of-age record about navigating their twenties, “Dream Big” is a mature awakening to the world at large; one that dives deeper and hits harder than its predecessor.

“It definitely was a conscious titling, that relationship between Small Talk and Dream Big,” the band’s guitarist and producer Adam O’Regan explains. “Small Talk was trying to decipher whether everything meant something or nothing. With Dream Big, we’ve arrived at the point that it means something.”

Press release © Mitch Mosk, 2023.

credits

released September 8, 2023

PRODUCED BY SODA BLONDE

RECORDED AT BLACKMOUNTAIN STUDIOS, DUNDALK

ENGINEERED BY PETER BALDWIN

MIXED BY ADAM O’REGAN

MASTERED BY AIDAN MCGOVERN AT ACADEMY OF SOUND

SODA BLONDE ARE:
FAYE O’ROURKE
ADAM O’REGAN
DONAGH SEAVER O’LEARY
DYLAN LYNCH

ALL LYRICS BY FAYE O’ROURKE*

MUSIC ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY SODA BLONDE

STRING & BRASS ARRANGEMENTS ON ‘MIDNIGHT SHOW’
& ‘MY FIRST NAME’ BY ADAM O’REGAN

STRINGS PERFORMED BY THE GLAS QUARTET:
AILBHE CLANCY - VIOLIN
FRANCESCA DE NARDI - VIOLIN
ANNEMARIE MCGAHON - VIOLA
DAVIDE FORTI - CELLO
LOMAN SHERLOCK - TRUMPET
BRIAN MURPHY - BASS TROMBONE

COVER ART PHOTOGRAPHED BY PATRICIO CASSINONI

CONCEPT & ART DIRECTION BY SODA BLONDE

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