Lips: Music for Saying It is a 1999 live album by Jane Siberry.

It presents material she recorded at a 1996 concert at the famed New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 club The Bottom Line. The material includes both original songs by Siberry and covers of other songwriters, all organized around the theme of self-expression.

The album also includes the song "Mimi Speaks", a sequel to her first hit "Mimi on the Beach" (from 1984's No Borders Here

No Borders Here

No Borders Here is the second album by Jane Siberry.The album's single "Mimi on the Beach" was Siberry's breakthrough hit in her native Canada, and remains one of her most famous songs. Toronto's CFNY was the first radio station in Canada to recognize the song's hit potential...

). In the original song, Mimi was merely observed by the narrator; in "Mimi Speaks", Siberry presents Mimi's perspective.

It was one of four concerts she performed at The Bottom Line. Two of the others appear on the double album Child: Music for the Christmas Season

Child: Music for the Christmas Season

Child: Music for the Christmas Season is a 1997 live double album by Jane Siberry.It presents material she recorded at two 1996 concerts at the famed New York City jazz club The Bottom Line. The material includes both original songs by Siberry and covers of Christmas standards.The concerts were two...

, and the last appears on Tree: Music for Films and Forests

Tree: Music for Films and Forests

Tree: Music for Films and Forests is a 1999 live album by Jane Siberry.It presents a concert she recorded at New York City's famed Bottom Line jazz club in 1996. The concert predominantly presents songs that Siberry wrote which were in some way about trees and forests; however, she also includes...

. All three albums have also been released as the New York City Trilogy

New York City Trilogy

The New York City Trilogy is a four-CD box set, compiling the concert albums that Jane Siberry recorded at New York City's Bottom Line nightclub in autumn 1996...

box set.

Track listing

All songs written by Siberry, except where noted.

1. "First Word"
2. "Valley of the Dolls" - André Previn
   André Previn
   André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...
   
   /Dory Previn
   Dory Previn
   Dory Previn, née Dorothy Veronica Langan , is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet.During the late 1950s and 1960s she was a lyricist for motion picture songs, and with her first husband André Previn received several Academy Award nominations...
   
   
3. "Freedom is Gold"
4. "Hotel Room 417"
5. "Foecke"
6. "I Will Survive" - Dino Fekeris/Freddie Perren
   Freddie Perren
   Frederick "Freddie" Perren was an American songwriter, record producer, arranger, and orchestra conductor best known for as a co-songwriter and co-producer of such mega-hits as "Boogie Fever" by the Sylvers, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, and "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Peaches &...
   
   
7. "Flirtin' is a Flo-Thing"
8. "Say It (Excerpt)"
9. "Grace Hospital"
10. "You Say I Say"
11. "Mimi Speaks"
12. "Last Word"
13. "Say It"
14. "Barkis Is Willin'"