1. |
Rewind the Day
03:21
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A love so real
Feel naked still
I’m counting
Mysteries, obsidian night
Glowing look in your eyes
Honey-gold fireflies
I’m memory’s fool
On a dark pool
I’m waiting
Velvety wings of a moth in my hand
Or the scent of a
Cinnamon tree
Shimmering weightlesness
Whispers of listful bliss
Open your mouth with a smile
So please
Just rewind the day
For me
Just rewind the day
Won’t you please
Just rewind the day
For me
A love so real
I Feel naked still
I’m counting
Mysteries, obsidian night
Glowing look in your eyes
Honey-gold fireflies
I’m not ready to undo this dream
So please
Just rewind the day
With me
Let’s rewind the day
Won’t you please
Just rewind the day
With me
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2. |
Astronaut
03:43
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Open up the station airlock
As we spin above this blue rock
Spit your heart up, watch it drift out
Astronaut, I’m bored
Lalalala
Dive into the ocean darkness
Down so deep the sharks are left breathless
Cough your lungs out, watch them float up
Smile through the gore
Lalalala
This is the day I begin again
Open down the throttle’s throat
My hands these moonlit lacerations
Pious pull of gravity
The flames lick up your sunglasses
Bones puppet in the shudder
The bite of dark runs through you
All the ground is burned away
And I float
Exploded time
My face
An icy grin
Words are air and nothing more
Tears are salt and nothing more
Songs are noise and nothing more
You are flesh and nothing
Let me
Let me
Let me
Go
Life under the starlight
Had enough I’ll take flight
Life under the starlight
Had enough I’ll take flight
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3. |
Valediction
02:42
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When we see that this is all we are
This negotiation, these promises
When day by day we testify,
Throwing incantations against the dark
Valediction to it all
Valentines go off to war
Valediction to it all
Valkyries will lead us home
All we have is hope and omens
To awake naked and unafraid
Prisoners will be unwalled, unchained
In bright chambers of day
Valediction to it all
Valentines go off to war
Valediction to it all
Valkyries will lead us home
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4. |
One More Son
05:01
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Soul’s branches outgrow your body
Escaping through cracks in walls
Eyelashes crumple
A piece of burnt paper
Shivering in the cold
Ruptured, cracked, and broken
Filled with love then drowned in hate
Watched you bleed out
Said put a smile on
Why’d I turn away?
Cuz now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
Now I’m scraping at your leftover shadows
Lingering here in my head
Melting fragments, fractured faces
Slippery in my hands
Ruptured, cracked, and broken
Filled with love then drowned in hate
Watched you bleed out
Said put a smile on
Why’d I turn away?
Cuz now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
Why’d you go?
Why’d you go?
Yellow flame
Smoking gun
Bullet claimed
One more son
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5. |
Like a Little Rain
05:02
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Now it feels so superficial trying to be sad all over again today
What am I feeling. What am I thinking about except
Someday it might be me
Someday it might be me
Turned the page on all of you
Pictures flood my screen
I scroll past all of you
Does giving you a
Happy face help you or hurt
Me?
Liquid pooling back into my head
Like a little rain
Like a little rain
Crawling by its fingertips
Up into the sky
Like a little rain
Like a little rain
Gone
Bye
Liquid pooling back into my head
Crawling by its fingertips
Up into the sky
Like a little rain
Like a little rain
Not used to
Nice things lasting
Find out when you fall
You will find out when you fall
Like a little rain
Like a little rain
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I wanna hear the sound of your laughter
As it swirls across the room
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
You might think I’m too emotional sometimes but
At least I’m able to cry
You might say I’m just too out there for you but
Let me pry open your eyes
I wanna thrash I wanna fight like Motoko
I wanna hold my breath till all of me implodes
I wanna break up this primordial silence
Eternally naked insides on display
You look a little confused right now, like
You don’t get how I transformed
Myself into an elastic dreamer
Come on don’t be such a bore
I wanna thrash I wanna fight like Motoko
I wanna hold my breath till all of me implodes
I wanna break up this primordial silence
Eternally naked insides on display
Girl swallows nightingale
Careful now, Cosmic egg
I’m a flesh eater, shape shifter, daring you to
Wipe off that fake little grin
What makes you so very cautious out in the world
Why don’t you take off your skin
And when you do what will I find underneath it?
And when you do what will I find underneath it?
And when you do what will I find underneath it?
I smell the animal swimming inside
Open up spread your legs don’t let it die
Girl swallows nightingale
Careful now, Cosmic egg
Born!
Born!
Born!
Little bird
Little bird on a fiery field
I’ll swallow
I’ll swallow
You
Whole
Whole
Whole
Whole
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Girl Swallows Nightingale Oakland, California
These bones carry stories and we reap them through song.
Girl Swallows Nightingale delivers
big, ambitious sound. The Oakland-based experimental pop/rock band crafts intricate song structures buoyed by infectious funk grooves and heady harmonies. Storytelling and performance are also central to their music; the band thrives where sensory planes intersect.
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