Snakes and Ladders - Basia Bulat

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These mirrors you've broken are your cry for art.
Salt and pepper shakers over your shoulders, cross your heart.
Don't you know it's bad luck to stay in one place for too long?
You've been listening to voices in your head, helpless when they go.

So we play a game of snakes and ladders,
Gambled our mistakes, didn't know what could come after.
Threw away the cards. Who thinks it could matter?
Oh, who believes in fate anyway?

When only you could be the one
To win out over me,
When it isn't just a game. It's the way we come undone.
What a perfect accident. How we dance around and,
oh, like we didn't even notice, oh oh oh oh oh.
I love the way we come undone.

Thought I saw something hiding in the yard
but it was bad weather to keep a watch out in the dark.
You know, all this time we've been playing for your heart
But I never let it on. I'll love watch you play the part.

So we played a game of snakes and ladders,
Gambled our mistakes, didn't know what could come after.
Threw away the cards. Who thinks it could matter?
Oh, who believes in fate anyway?


When only you could be the one
To win out over me,
When it isn't just a game. It's the way we come undone.
What a perfect accident. How we dance around and,
oh, like we didn't even notice, oh oh oh oh oh.
I love the way we come undone.

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Basia Bulat is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in London, Ontario. She released a self-titled Independent EP in 2005. Her debut album, Oh My Darling, was released in 2007. Her second album, Heart Of My Own, released in January 2010. As reviewed in Pitchfork, Feb 8/10, "...but while Bulat's versatility's a selling point, it's her rare, extraordinary voice that makes her a fresh find in the notoriously musty folk-pop bin. Graceful and incandescent, confident but approachable, her alto's the aural equivalent of the perfect party host who makes every guest not only welcome, but certain they're the most important person in the room."

She appeared in the September edition of Now! Magazine. She also appeared on the LOLA 2007 line-up, using her lush instrumental back-ups to accompany her reedy voice. Her first album has been hailed in the Exclaim! monthly newspaper and on several online publications.

Basia was nominated in 2010 for a Polaris Music Prize and nominated in 2011 for a Juno in the Best New Artist category. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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