Heather Nova (born July 6, 1967) is a singer-songwriter.

She was born Heather Frith in Bermuda, and spent much of her childhood on a 40-foot boat built by her father. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989.

She self-published the sorrowjoy in 2002; it is a 72-page book of her poetry and drawings.

Discography

• The First Recording (1997, re-release of her first EP from 1990)
• Glow Stars (1993)
• Blow (live, 1993)
• Oyster (1994)
• Live at the Milky Way (live, 1995)
• Siren (1998)
• Wonderlust (live, 2000)
• South (2001)
• Storm (2003)

Example of lyrics

As a poet, Heather Nova writes poetical lyrics:

Kiss me, kiss me, under a glow-star sky;

If they're stuck on the ceiling I don't mind.

It's a brittle world but it's soft inside

I'll make the milky way for you, only you

You, only you.

And I will always ride far into the night with you,

And I will take my chances, far into the night with you.

Love me, love me, under a glow-star sky,

It's a galaxy when we get high

And sleep to the junkies' lullabies;

I close my eyes for you, only you.

You, only you.

And I will always ride far into the night with you,

And I will take my chances, far into the night with you.

I touch your face, I'm flying over fields,

I touch this moment – it's mine.

I'm an angel, I'm a parasite,

I'm a vessel – I shine.

Kiss me, kiss me under a glow-star sky,

We'll be digging up soil someday, sometime,

So hold me now, hold me tight,

I'll make the milky way for you, only you,

You, only you.

And I will always ride far into the night with you,

And I will take my chances, far into the night with you.

—from Glow Stars on the eponymously titled album.

And this, the chorus from Island on the Oyster album:

I need an island,

Somewhere to sink a stone.

I need an island,

Somewhere to bury you

Somewhere to go.

(© Heather Nova)

Books

• the sorrowjoy (ISBN 0954211502)

External links

• Online Community
• Official website
• Website for the sorrowjoy
• Biography, available from allmusic.com; the same biography is also available from the VH1 website,