Bernadette | Reina del Cid (new single!)

Bernadette by Reina del Cid
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Surprise! Here's the official audio of one of the songs off of our upcoming album, Morse Code. This is a tune called Bernadette. This one baaaaarreeely made it onto the record at the last second. We basically had the album fully recorded were in the very last stage of adding the harmonies to the tracks. While I was supposed to be working on the harmonies at home, this melody kept popping into my head. Then the first few lyrics came, and strangely, they were about a ghost named Bernadette. Eventually, it seemed like this ghost wouldn’t leave me alone and I had to sit down and just write out her story in the form of this song.

I called up the band and our producer Matt Patrick and we scheduled a last minute session at the studio to get this song on the new album. There were no rehearsals, not much discussion on arrangement—we just came in and tried out ideas and played what we felt, and this is the result.

So, I present Bernadette. I hope you like her!. :) Lyrics are below.

Credits:

Recorded at The Library Recording Studio in Minneapolis, MN
Engineered, mixed, and produced by Matt Patrick
Mastered by Huntley Miller
Written by Reina del Cid

Vocals: Reina del Cid
Guitars: Toni Lindgren
Bass: Andy Mark
Drums and aux percussion: Nate Babbs
Organ, mellotron, and marxophone: Matt Patrick

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Bernadette lyrics:

It was a quarter to four am
alone in my kitchenette
that's where I met Bernadette
and I still can see her now

First she kicked on the wash machine
streaked 'cross my tv screen
rustled the magazines
and blew my candle out

But how many days passed since then?
Since I saw her silhouette
now I want her back again
Oh, my Bernadette

It was the strangest of summer dreams
those nights she spent haunting me
she touched me 'cross centuries
and I never felt alone

But one morning I knew she'd gone
left the lights and Victrola on
and I woke to the saddest song
a tune from long ago

Now it feels like I lost a friend
and I find myself wondering
will she haunt my home again?
Oh, my Bernadette

Each night when I go to bed
I leave one candle flickering
She finds her way back again
Oh, my Bernadette


About Reina del Cid:
Reina del Cid is a singer songwriter and leader of the eponymous folk rock band based in Minnesota. Her song-a-week video series, Sunday Mornings with Reina del Cid, has amassed a devoted and diverse following made up of everyone from jamheads to college students to white-haired intelligentsia. In 2011 she began collaborating with Toni Lindgren, who is the lead guitarist on all three of Del Cid’s albums, as well as a frequent and much beloved guest on the Sunday Morning videos. The Sunday Morning videos also feature a rotating cast of bandmates, special guests, and occasional random bystanders.