Ferron
Ferron, born Deborah Foisy on (1952-06-01) 1 June 1952, is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter and poet. In addition to being one of Canada's most famous folk musicians, she is one of the most influential writers and performers of women's music, and an important influence on later musicians such as Ani DiFranco, Mary Gauthier and the Indigo Girls.
Early life
She learned to play guitar at age 11, and left home at 15. Ferron attended Total Ed, an alternative high school in Vancouver, graduating in 1973 (Thomas 2002). Of her earliest musical memories, she wrote, "my mother's French Canadian family played music. I heard guitars and banjo and accordion and scrub board and my grandfather clogging. I put it together...music meant fun, meant love and laughter. I started writing songs when I was 10, never saved them after some kids at school found them and teased me about it. I wrote songs and remembered them and when I forgot them I felt they were not important anymore. The next time I saved a song I was 18. It was 1970." It was with that first saved song that she made her professional debut in 1975, playing the song "Who Loses" at a benefit for the Women's Press Gang, a feminist publishing house.
Ferron (disambiguation)
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ALBUMS
- Impressionistic released: 2000
- Inside Out: The IMA Sessions released: 1999
- Still Riot released: 1996
- Driver released: 1994
- Resting With the Question released: 1992
- Not a Still Life released: 1992
- Phantom Center released: 1990
- Shadows on a Dime released: 1984
- Testimony released: 1981
- Backed Up released: 1978
- Ferron released: 1977
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I Am Hungry
by: FerronI am hungry how are you?
you say that every lie came true
i will hold you anyway
and you'll grow strong and leave one day
is there any other way?
look desire in its face
watch it eat and leave no trace
after you have disappeared
who will know and who will hear?
oh it's such delicious fear.
brushes with a starving hand
just the ache i understand
after you have swallowed me
who do you think you will be?
you'll be you and i'll be me.
and still i will lay my body down
and in your many voices drown
oh we are a hidden pool
we are so long we are so cool
while underneath we're dark and cruel
and i am hungry how are you?
you say that every lie came true
i will hold you anyway
and you'll grow strong and leave one day
is there any more to say?
but: take the front door leave just one
and don't return there are no chances pending
if you want to live this way
only those like you will play
and they never play to stay.
and they never play to stay.