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Stop This World

by Halie Loren

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The world is growing ever stranger, and ever more estranging, and it can sometimes feel like the whole dang thing is about to break apart. Luckily, Mose Allison wrote a song for this whole situation. When life just feels too precarious to be funny but too ridiculous not to be a joke, and the whole rig feels just a little too reliant on those paper clips and bits of tape holding it all together, ‘Stop This World’ is the song friend I can always
turn to for some cathartic commiseration. It’s world-weary, a little bit brassy, plenty sassy, and features an infectiously groovy second-line rhythm and killer solos (by guitarist Sam Kirmayer and pianist Taurey Butler). In short, it’s ‘The Blues for shaking off the blahs'.

lyrics

Stop this world, let me off

There's just too many pigs in the same trough

There's too many buzzards just a-sittin’ on the fence

Stop this world, it's not makin’ sense

Stop this show, hold the phone

Better days, better days this woman has known

Mmm, better days so long ago

So hold the phone, won't you please stop the show

It seems my little playhouse has fallen down

Seems little ship has done run aground

I feel like I'm in the wrong place

And my state of mind is a disgrace, so

Stop this game, deal me out
I know too well what it's all about

I know too well that it had to be

So stop this game ‘cause it's ruining me

Well, I got too smart for my own good, and

I just don't do the things that everybody knows I should, and

There's bound to be, bound to be some better way, and

An’ I just got, I got one more thing more to say

And that is



Stop this game and deal me out 

I know too well, I know too well what it's all about

Yeah, I know too well that it had to be

So stop this game ‘cause it’s ruining me

Stop the show ‘cause it just had to be

Stop this world ‘cause it’s wrecking me

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released January 19, 2024
Halie Loren - vocal
Morgan Moore - bass
Jim Doxas - drums
Taurey Butler - piano
Sam Kirmayer - guitar

Produced by Halie Loren
Co-produced by Morgan Moore
Recording engineering by Nicolas Nicolas Pétrowski
Engineering assistance: Nazar Klepatskyy & Gwendoline Dumontet Mastered by: Adam Ayan

Music Publisher: BMG Rights Management
Songwriter: Mose Allison

℗ White Moon Productions under exclusive license to Justin Time Records Inc. & JVC Kenwood Japan

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Halie Loren Eugene, Oregon

Halie Loren is an international award-winning jazz-pop singer/songwriter. She brings a fresh perspective to time-honored musical paths, singing in several languages and channeling her innate understanding of connectedness across musical boundaries to forge bonds with diverse audiences in North America, Asia, Europe, and beyond. Her latest album "Dreams Lost and Found" releases April 12, 2024! ... more

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