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Lullaby for Friends
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based on this melody: https://youtu.be/xfOhOJv2aLI
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I want to go somewhere with you
I don't know where we're goin to
I want to go somewhere I've never been
Do you want to be my friend?
/
Yes I'll be your friend
(be my friend)
There's hot tea for...??
Buzzin round the door
She's been there before
Cat Stevens, my favorite record for sure
Tea for the ??
I'll be your friend
(you'll be my friend)
??
(knocks)
Come in
Friend
(Friend)
Friends
(Friends)
Keep it keep it keep it keep it low like that
Oooh
Wah wah wah wah wah
Oh oh oh
(knocks)
I'm lettin em in.
(+outro monologue and byes...)
live version (improvised) https://youtu.be/9CE3MhVdUKE
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In the place where things come true
I can see you
like a rainbow meets the sky
I am holding you like a butterfly / lullaby
And all I wanted to be true
when I was small
And all the light in your hair
is sparkling for all the world
(to me)
And I know I'm getting things wrong
somehow
like signing off and on
And still you hold me like a song
that I'm always getting wrong
And we're all flying down from the sky
And you see with eyes that you've been given
Not the ones you wanted to light
by writing a thousand songs and
singing them all this time
still I don't feel the kind of thing that I am seeking
so I've learned
learned to fly
like a pegasus or pony
do unicorns have wings?
well I guess they don't
and all the things I've gotten wrong
like this song I'm trying for you
Do you know that it's all always coming true?
Growing over and under at the same time
Floating over and under at the same time
And I'm like a bird that wants to fly away with you
But away from you and to you
I don't know which way to choose...
*FYI this song was improvised from a crowdsourced collection of lyric/topic suggestions* (primary suggestion being unicorns - hence the unicorn lyric fail, because I kept talking about flying away, before realizing unicorns don't have wings...) https://youtu.be/2QiOiBgjeCc
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I like to be with you in the car
I like to be with you wherever you are
We like to go to places that aren't far
Where we go, you know I love it where you are
Da da da da
Da da di da
Why do you want to go anywhere but where we're going?
Why would you want to go anywhere but where we're going?
Cause I'll go anywhere with you
Anywhere with you
Anywhere with you
Anywhere with you
live version (improvised): https://youtu.be/fjxuatBChX8
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When you want to see the world through new eyes
When you want to grow in ways that are not a surprise
And you can see all the colors you were made to be
When you wake up from this dream we are living in
When you see all the pain that surrounds us and you want to go back into your room / womb
And all this color is too bright
And maybe you're just trying things on for size
And maybe you
should
should do somethin new
should
should do somethin new
something different than you've been doing
something different than you've done
live version (improvised, filmed by Lamp Light kitchen crew - thank you!) https://youtu.be/n9vw2rYVbKE
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Something in my skin is waking up
To the place where we begin making up
All the beauty in the world breaking up
like a bad connection
Something on your face lets me know
I don't need to change the world just to grow
I'm a tiny little seed, don't you know?
That won't change in bloom
And you
take me in your vision
And I'll
take what I am given
And I'll
write it down for you
Something in the world speaks your name
Like a tiny little moth to a flame
I am brighter than I will be again
That's because of you
And you
take me in your vision
And I'll
take what I am given
And I'll
write it down for you
live version (written, practiced 1hr before filming, xo <3) https://youtu.be/5UulukduLzU
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People everywhere in my mind
in my skin
in my energy
they're living inside me
like birds or butterflies
they're made of light
And I can see these colors in my mind
in my eyes
in my time
like a fiction I didn't write
and didn't want at all
And taking a cue from you
is all I can do
Time makes you blind to all the things you knew as a child
when you were born
before you were born
before you were made to fit the mold
made from other molds
what's the first mold?
well I don't know.
And all this light like fiction makes me blind
And all this time like wisdom leaves you unkind
(I don't want to be unkind)
(cause I believe that's the whole point...
and they're waiting for us to decide to stop
missing the point)
live version (improvised, solo - the day after Nathan performed in this basement, but I didn't have enuf courage yet to ask people to do songs with me...so our collab happened months later, long distance <3) https://youtu.be/q6scVx8OeOc
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In your mind
You will find
Something you need to know
Way in there
Like a bear
It's waiting for you to grow
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if you wanna be
if you wanna be
my savior
my savior
if you wanna be
my friend
be my savior
from saviors
cause time is moving and
life is ticking onward
like little puddles collecting in a jar
and i can't hold this in me
i can't hold on much longer
and where you are
and where you are
is far enough away
to seem like mountains
cannot be climbed
cannot be scaled
but if i hold you in my mind
i hold you like a puzzle
that i couldn't put together
and you are with me
even when you're going
somewhere new
and you are with me
and i know i'm with you too
and everything works out
the way you wanted it to
Do you want to be my friend
if all that means is
friendship
not some
great spaceship
to the sky in your mind.
live version (improvised) : https://youtu.be/2-V_onocg9I
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Jessica in The Rainbow Michigan
~demos & lofi~
~existential dream folk~
~neoclassical lullaby pop~
~care bear
stare~
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