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Songs for a Sea - Demo

by Heloise

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1.
There is no potion Like fire and leaves There is no purple Like mountain trees There are no words quite like Parting eyes The spell of misty mornings Sullen goodbyes Lullabyes (chorus) The earth my witness Dare I ask for place With races won or lost Bring me home someday... But why so far My Adirondack sky I'm coming home someday The stars know why You speak to me in Coattails and dreams I long for past all future State of being The sky carves way For birds in parallels The home one knows one brings is Where one dwells Where one dwells Chorus Clear blue sky...
2.
My Sweetness 03:49
I'm sweet like honey My hungry bee Hotter than sugar and Strong like the weeds It's an amber-y, sticking-ly world out there And the one breaks my jar Has a mess in his hair (chorus) And it's Ay-Oh-Ay-Oh-Ay.. No man can own What the seas made for free And I can't give you heart or soul If you can't see The skin between you and me Open spaces and Hands in their places Backbone twists and Homerun graces All feels so good when we're climbing the bases But who leads you home When the wolves take their places Chorus Fistfuls of kites Imaginary fights Solos and so low the bottom drops tight All this sweetness, My dear, it's a weakness Who can know pleasure Without showing meekness Chorus
3.
It's calm and we're pleasant But raging for truth Peaceful peasant All grown up shoulder The weight of your world Sunshine boulder I'll tell you a story but listen up close It haunts and it wants And it's only your ghost because (chorus) You don't know my secrets You don't know what I hold What the real thing feels like Why my dance is gold Hold hands and wonder Why plunder why thunder Why chances Speak needs so clearly But who holds you dearly Build fences In struggle my dear ones I love you all so Hands that do justice Feed mouths of their foes, and yet Chorus
4.
If a picture in black and white is only shades of gray Then what gave you flourescent light that day For every hand you hold there forms a 'c' Spinning silent shape that knows its piece (chorus) Now I can't say I know what's best, what's right But I need you for more than just one night Oh love love love love love I wanna radiate Etched into our veins, so many signs Empire falls, rebuild between the lines From me to you a voyage rife with speed With love its purples hang in drip drop freeze Chorus Red is not the color we all think Precious darkness battles fiery ink The tension in a starry atmosphere Will only find repose when eyes are near Chorus
5.
I got a day older today I'm an auburn patchwork skunk Neither woman nor man Somewhere in between, leave me be (chorus) Leave me be When I'm alone Find me water When rocks are my home California, give me eyes Lift me up with your basket of sky Wrestled my alligator today I'm a torn-up jackalope hide My scapula's stiff I've got bruises and grit And I can't help but try try try Chorus There is not a sole right But a wrong And yet, sunshine all the day long Somewhere someone welcomes me Why can't it be? Maybe wristwatches turn with disdain At my trippin'-up door-slammin' ways Only old seeks in young What's been lost to the tongue Leave me be Chorus
6.
On an average day In an average town It all fell down In an average man On an average street No friend to meet I've been living deeply I've been eating whole I've been feeding the (w)hole I've been having strange dreams Girls locked in holes Heavy the bell tolls Somewhere in America Far from his home Someone's been sold (chorus) I've been living deeply I've been eating whole I've been feeding the (w)hole So fill me with your American charms Cuz I've got pain in my American arms I once owned an island Belonged not to me Land of the free Take care your pipe dreams Then give them away Send love my way Chorus
7.
WILD 04:38
I'm a restless wandering one Build so high Between me and the sky My feet and the earth The sound of the rain This worryin' work Hear me cry In somedays and sundays Bygone snow-froze Tree-whisper ways It ran dry (chorus) Wild Oh this world only knows what it takes How we break To be wild Oh I swim with a passion I dry up with lust I tortured nobody but Ashes make dust Wanna fly Between heartache and soul-shake Hungry meat bones And the lies Oh the lies Then a hundred-word kindness Comes rushin' in See it through sun-spreading eyes Watch it rise Chorus When all of the art has been wrung out of me And all my dances run dry When body is withered and smile shining gold Oh then, only then dear world let me die Chorus
8.
How we Play 03:55
I don't love you, my love No, just your hands And I don't know where you are I just understand Coming home to your feet Gracing my air Traces of worlds complete Tucked in my stare Truth you may love me, oh How could I say? Mouthfuls of honesty've Been driven away (chorus) Take me away To the place Where we don't love How we play If I could love someone Surely they'd be Just as your twisting wave Calls out to me (From deepest seas) And I'd be quite fine With us parting ways Just promise me this love - I'd still have you all days You'd still have me all days Chorus
9.
Born tangled in knots Plume and feather White cloud serenade Feed me better Of all the cold I've known Yours bit down the bones But I'm told Hold unfold Hold unfold Give grace with a name Hear no story Let sail, should it be Yours the only Of all the blues at sea The truest sky was me But I'm told Hold unfold Hold unfold Light of an age Bound by ceiling Straight from ancient page Sight light feeling Some horizon deep Lifting flesh from feet And I'm told Hold unfold Hold unfold
10.
Slow black cat Seeking its own company A drop in the ocean Of simple seas Names and places Who've never been Meet the flutter Black butterfly wing (chorus) Barn's burnt down I can see the moon Sands roll wide Lift me over dunes I feel wings They're pulling at my back You see fur But I'm free Yes I'm free (this old tree..) Long slope journey On elephant's back House of worship No house looking back Dig through tunnels Press roots in so deep Taste caresses Of hungry owl feet Chorus Broken habits And useless charms The search for beauty Came empty to my arms Fight for power Sit only with your own rage Know the flavors Of truth on your own stage Chorus

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Original songs recorded on an iPhone in Burlington, VT. I'd love to make a full album in studio - hopefully time and funds will allow for this in the near future... Thanks for supporting! -H

*p.s. please respect all copyrights. See track 2..."the one breaks my jar has a mess in his hair";)

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released May 5, 2015

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Heloise New York, New York

photo & cover art by J.Heloise. See www.jheloise.com for more info.

Heloise was raised on classical music (piano, french horn, trumpet, voice), & musical theater. Folk music & harmonies were also cultivated at summer camp. She picked up guitar at age 21& began writing songs in her 30s. She is a graduate of Parsons & has created art for 12+ yrs (incl. cover art). She currently lives in NYC area. ... more

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