Heather Nova is the Bermudian Songwriter who grew up on a boat in the Caribbean and went on to sell over 2 million albums in her 15 year career to date. She has released seven albums and has opened for artists like Van Morrison and Neil Young as well as performed with artists like Sarah McLachlan. She has also had hit records with co-writes featuring artists like ATB (Renegade), and Eskobar (Someone New).Her brother is the Reggae singer Mishka.
By the end of the 1980s, after leaving RISD, Heather moved briefly to New York City (where she unsuccessfully tried to interest some major labels in a demo including Columbia , who rejected her, only to sign her five years later ), before moving to London, England. She has British citizenship due to her Bermudan origin. In 1990, she released her first recording, an EP called 'Heather Frith' — she had not yet changed her name by then. The name change came a year or so later after several gigs in the Netherlands, where, after finding out that the Dutch have trouble pronouncing "Frith," she chose a name that would be easily pronounceable in every European language, "Nova," her Canadian mother's maiden name.
The new name debuted in 1993 with her second EP 'Spirit in You' and her first full album, 'Glow Stars'. The success of the album led her to record and release her first live album, 'Blow', the same year, which she supported by a tour of Europe. A year later in 1994 she released what many consider to be her finest work to date, the emotional yet jagged album 'Oyster', for which she toured for almost two years. Another live album, 'Live from the Milky Way', was released in 1995, and after its release she toured for nearly three years straight, twice joining Sarah McLachlan and others on the North American Lilith Fair, which is a music festival with only female performers. Heather is also a frequent performer at European music festivals such as Roskilde.
In 1998, the long-awaited follow up to 'Oyster' was released. After the release of 'Siren', Heather took a break while various television show and film soundtracks licensed some of her songs and her record company (Sony Records/The WORK Group) released various singles from the album, which received only moderate play on America's MTV2, Europe's MTV and Canada's MuchMusic and on mainstream radio, although she was popular on college radio. Also during this time, she recorded a version of the often covered Billie Holiday song, 'Gloomy Sunday', for the German WWII drama Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod. In 2000, she released yet another live album, called 'Wonderlust'.
Over the years, Heather has written and recorded over a hundred songs, so that her albums are selected from work that has often already been performed live, rather than being conceived during rushed songwriting sessions. Half the songs on 'Siren' had been written during the 'Oyster' sessions and were frequently played live prior to being committed to a studio session, and most of the songs for 2001's 'South' were written between 1999 and 2000 while she was on hiatus from touring. With the release of 'South', she returned to the international spotlight with an appearance on the soundtrack of the John Cusack movie "Serendipity", a couple of music videos, and a collaboration with Swedish band Eskobar, for a song called "Someone New", also released as a video, which proved so popular that it was played primarily on America's MTV, not just MTV2 (which is normally reserved for less-popular songs). 'Storm', Heather's fifth studio album, was released in late 2003 on Big Cat Records, as was 'Redbird', released in 2005.
In 2002, she self-published 'the sorrowjoy', a 72-page book of her poetry and drawings. An album of the same name was released in March 2006, which featured Nova reading the poems from her book set to ambient music. The album has only been available for purchase at concerts beginning with the Intimate Evening tour, from the fan-run websites, HeatherNova.Net and HeatherNova.De, and from the official website, www.heathernova.com.
The album Storm was released in 2003. It was a more refined album, using Mercury Rev as Heather's backing band. The album was Top 5 in Germany and Top 10 across Europe. It was an album of dark ballads, marking a step away from the polished sound of South. It was also Heather's first release on her own record label, Saltwater Records. Despite being pregnant, she toured hard with a new line up and band, before returning home to Bermuda. (A live DVD was made of these concerts (live at the Union Chapel)
Make You Mine
Heather Nova Lyrics
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You're the one that comes to me visions in the night
I want to complicate your feelings
I want to heat you up inside
Yeah yeah yeah I want to make you mine
I'll be your sun coming up
I'll be your dog days
Kiss you baby
I'll be the bluebird singing
I'll keep you warm
I'll take you deep in
Take you deep in
Gonna make my bed beside you
In the bluebells of your soul
Gonna slip into your river, babe
Linger in your shoals
And when the stars are bright like fireflies
And the night is black as coal
Yeah yeah yeah, I'm gonna make you mine
I'll be your sun coming up
I'll be your dog days
I'll be your sweet honey
I kiss you baby
I'll be the bluebird singing
I'll keep you warm
I'll take you deep in
Take you deep in
On another side of time
Before the sea runs dry
Yeah yeah yeah
On another side of time
Where the love runs high
I'm gonna make you mine
Gonna make you mine X4
Gonna make you mine, yeah
I'll be your sun coming up
I'll be your dog days
I'll be your new morning
Kiss you baby
I'll be the bluebird singing
I'll keep you warm
I'll take you deep in
Take you deep in
Yeah, yeah, yeah
On another side of time
Before the sea runs dry
Yeah yeah yeah
On another side of time
Where the love runs high
I'm gonna make you mine
Gonna make you mine
Gonna make you mine
I'm gonna make you mine
On another side of time
Before the sea runs dry
Yeah yeah yeah
On another side of time
Where the love runs high
I'm gonna make you mine
Gonna make you mine
Gonna make you mine
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm gonna make you mine
Gonna make you mine
In the bluebells of your soul
Yeah before the sea runs dry
The verse of "Make You Mine" by Heather Nova describes a person who is consumed with thoughts of someone else. The person in question is constantly in their mind, appearing in their dreams and thoughts day and night. Despite wanting to complicate their feelings, they want to heat them up inside, suggesting an intense passion yearning to be unleashed. The chorus amplifies this sentiment by declaring the singer wants to own this person and be the source of all their happiness. The singer pledges to accompany the person through all stages of their lives, beginning with being their sun coming up, their dog days, and their sweet honey. The singer also promises to go deep with this person, taking them to new heights of passion and intimacy.
The second stanza continues with the idea that the singer is going to incorporate themselves into every aspect of the person's life. They're going to make their bed beside them and slip into their river, which could be interpreted as forming an intense emotional bond physically and metaphorically. The reference to the bluebells of someone's soul could signify a deeper spiritual connection, and "linger in your shoals" consolidates this idea of committing to this person intensely. The rest of the song reiterates the singer's desire to make the person theirs and promises that they will make them theirs on another side of time where the love is high.
Line by Line Meaning
You're the one I think about time after time
You constantly occupy my thoughts and emotions
You're the one that comes to me visions in the night
You appear frequently in my dreams and subconscious
I want to complicate your feelings
I desire to challenge and intensify your emotions
I want to heat you up inside
I wish to generate passion and intensity within you
Yeah yeah yeah I want to make you mine
I am deeply interested in having a romantic relationship with you
I'll be your sun coming up
I will bring warmth and light to your life
I'll be your dog days
I will be at your side through difficult and trying times
I'll be your new morning
I will bring new beginnings and positive change to your life
Kiss you baby
I desire to express my love and affection for you physically
I'll be the bluebird singing
I will bring joy and positivity into your life
I'll keep you warm
I will provide comfort and security for you
I'll take you deep in
I will intimately explore and connect with you emotionally and physically
Gonna make my bed beside you
I desire to be physically and emotionally close to you
In the bluebells of your soul
In the deepest parts of your being
Gonna slip into your river, babe
I desire to intimately explore and connect with you physically and emotionally
Linger in your shoals
I desire to take my time and explore every part of you intimately
And when the stars are bright like fireflies
During times of great beauty and wonder
And the night is black as coal
During the darkest of times
I'm gonna make you mine
I desire to have you as my romantic partner and build a deep connection with you
On another side of time
In a different time or place
Before the sea runs dry
Before the end of time
Where the love runs high
In a place where love is profound and all-encompassing
Gonna make you mine X4
I am committed to pursuing a romantic relationship with you
Yeah, yeah, yeah
An expression of enthusiasm and excitement
I'm gonna make you mine
I am determined to have you as my romantic partner
Gonna make you mine
I desire to build a deep and meaningful connection with you
In the bluebells of your soul
In the deepest parts of your being
Yeah before the sea runs dry
Before the end of time
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: HEATHER NOVA
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