Alannah Myles

I catch a chill when I look into your eyes
Something too familiar, I seem to recognize
Like lookin' in the mirror baby
And I'm scared of what I see
Lookin' at you baby, is the dark side of me

Comin' from the same place, two of a kind
Brought up on the wrong side of a one track mind
Whenever we're together baby
We're as bad as we can be
Lookin' at you baby, is the dark side of me

Bridge:
There's two sides to every story
For every shame there's a glory
And I've tried to keep a balance
Between the dark and the light
But something don't add up
When I'm with you, how can two wrongs feel so right
Feel so right

Verse III:
Well it's a one way conversation between you and I
You ask all the right questions and need no reply
On all the wrong answers baby, we always tend to agree
Lookin' at you baby, is the dark side of me

Lookin' at you baby, is the dark side of me

When Alannah Myles played the role of a young aspiring singer on an episode of The Kids Of Degrassi Street, it was more than just an act. Less than a decade later, the daughter of Canadian Hall Of Fame Broadcaster William Douglas Byles would be a Grammy and Juno Award-winning singer best known for her 1990 international hit “Black Velvet”.

Myles (who changed her last name from Byles as a teen) began writing songs at nine and was participating in Toronto’s Kiwanis Music Festival at twelve. While gigging solo at nineteen across southern Ontario, songwriter/musician Christopher Ward invited her to form a rock and blues cover band with him. During this time Ward became MuchMusic’s first VJ.

Ward spent seven years trying to get Myles signed. He produced a three song demo for her, and her entertainment lawyer Stephen Stohn came up with the idea of making a ‘video demo’ of Myles singing “Just One Kiss”. This finally attracted Warner Music Canada in 1987. The demo was passed along to Warner’s US affiliate labels and Atlantic Records also took interest.

more tracks from the album

A-lan-nah

From the album

A-lan-nah (1995)

Alannah Myles popular songs

Dark Side Of MeAlannah Myles

Alannah Myles

A-lan-nah