Alannah Myles

Lightning in a bottle
Fish in the stream
You in all your glory's
What I need

You got a gambler's grin
In the glow of the match
Hard as steel
And as soft as ash

Oh no...Tell me are you really like a sparrow in a hurrican

It's like lightning in a bottle
Fish on the line
Tell me a story
Read my mind

I don't want
Waste my time
Tell me will it be your world
Or will it be mine, mine, mine

Oh no...Tell me are you ready like a sparrow in a hurrican
Whoa no...Are you prepared for a walk in the naked rain

Chorus:
I would crawl, you know, you know I'd swim
I'd climb a mountain baby, I'd dive right in
Do the monkey, do the fly
Take a chance on comin' back for another life
One more time

Verse III:
It's like lightning in a bottle
Fish in a stream
You in all your glory's
What I need

Dogs are in the field
Moon floats on the lake
This is all too good
To be a big mistake

Chorus:
Solo:
Oh no...Tell me are you ready like a sparrow in a hurrican
Whoa no...Are you prepared for a walk in the naked rain

Chorus:
I would crawl, you know I'd swim
I'd climb a mountain baby, I'd dive right in
Do the monkey, do the fly
Take a chance on comin' back for another life

One more time

One more time

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.

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