Name: The Assignment by Eileen Kolster
Duration: 1 min 3 s
Description: Written to a brief: 30s suspense, 30s action building to a climax

V1
Riverine take me away
I want to be on that nocturnal shore
Backwater mud and decay
Let me go somewhere like we were in 2008 it was great
Sweep me to somewhere like we were before
Like we were

Chorus
Riverine remember
Summer spring and winter
You were the first and the truest and best
If I could’ve I would’ve never have left

V2
Riverine how could it be
We used to walk in twin shadows a pair
olive and juniper trees
Playing like we didn’t need anything more outside of ourselves
Rising like cypresses lighter than air
How we were

Chorus
Riverine remember
Summer spring and winter
You were the first and the truest and best
If I could’ve I would’ve never have left

V3
Riverine was it my fault
You crossed two oceans to see me that fall
On the grass ficuses sprawled
We felt the sun on our skin and I watched from inside of myself
ruminant empress outside of it all
How we were 

Chorus
Riverine I wonder
winter spring and summer
You were the first person I’d want to see
If I could I’d be forever 19
Winter summer spring
Forgive me, Riverine
You were the first person I’d want to see
I wish that we were forever 19

Riverine

Waltz for Li Lian

On Klouds

I feel like I know you
I feel like I know you very very well
V-very very well
But you get in these bad moods
And I don’t know what to do
When you start to yell
When you start to yell

Why’d you have to be unkind
Baby don’t you know you’re mine


Tessa tell me tell me tell me
Do you really love me
Tell me tell me tell me
How to make you
How to make you happy
Happy

You watch me play guitar
You tiptoe over my heart
When I try to sleep
When I try to sleep
I come when you call me
Catch you when you’re falling
And you walk all over me
You walk all over me


Why’d you have to be unkind
Baby don’t you know you’re mine


Tessa tell me tell me tell me
Do you really love me
Tell me tell me tell me
How to make you
How to make you happy
Happy

Tell me tell me tell me
Tell me tell me tell me

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Tessa

Blankets piled on a mattress miles high
Soft things couldn’t even count them if I tried
But something there wasn’t right
Something there wasn’t right

Charming he was all going for the kill
Sweet words falling from his tongue like sleeping pills
And something there wasn’t right
Something there wasn’t right
But I was lost in time

Once upon us we were crazy in love
Feeling like I’d finally found the one
But nothing I did was ever enough
You kept on testing me and I never measured up

Landmines I was dodging landmines round the clock
Sleeping like a tired princess on a bed of rocks
You wanted proof of love
I wrote your name in blood
But I was lost in time

Once upon us we were crazy in love
Feeling like I’d finally found the one
But nothing I did was ever enough
You kept on testing me 

You put stones in the bedsheets
Thorns in my side
Every time you hurt me I apologized
I thought it was my fault
I thought I was mean for ever asking you to hear me

Once upon us we were crazy in love
Feeling like I’d finally found the one
But nothing I did was ever enough
You kept on testing me but I never measured up

The Assignment

Eileen Kolster

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