Lyrics:

I've gone to meet you at your best friend's house
I've gone to see you where you spend your hours 
I want to see you in your honest time 

I've been talking to a wandering moon 
And I asked her would I see you soon
She says open wide 
Open wide

Oh what a world I've come to love so much 
What a world I've come to love so much 
What a world I've come to love 

To a space I see is filled with stars 
I like to think that that is where you are 
Shooting up, eyes wide

I'm trying to 
See things through you 
I'll find you somewhere
distant in a dark sky 

Oh what a world I've come to love so much 
What a world I've come to love so much 
What a world I've found you in 
Ugly as sin
But I love it

The moon told me

I wrote this song about something a friend told me, about making your body something it's ok to just be in. I hope you like it :)

Lyrics: 
You told me something that I could have told myself
But didn't know yet how to find the proper words
You told me something that I could have told myself
But now I know, can't unknow it 

And I go forwards, ooh, and backwards
Ooh, a child on a swing
I go forwards, ooh, and backwards, ooh
Feeling ugly while I did it

I hoped you'd tell me what I longed to hear myself
I didn't know, you were a mirror
Oh now I am trying to pronounce the words myself
And it feels strange, but in a good way

And I go forwards, ooh, and backwards, ooh
A child, unaware of the swing
Forwards, ooh, and backwards
But now I know that there is no more to it

Than to say it softly
Say it on your own
Say it to me, baby

Say it softly
Won't you say it on your own
Say it to me baby

This body is a safe place
This body is a safe place

My body is a safe place
My body is a safe place
Baby, baby 

Oh it's a safe place
My body is a safe place

My body is a safe place
My body is a safe place
Can't wait to see me when I get home

Ooh, ahh 

I say the words that I know I long to hear
And I feel that I'll be alright
I go outside and there is no one else around
And I see moonlight

This Body Is A Safe Place

Hi there. I am currently studying a Master of Environment, and for one of my classes, I got to do a creative project. I hope you enjoy these four songs, which when listened to together, I hope, paint a story of growth and change from hard places. This world is beautiful and so worth loving.

Gaia

Momma

Sorry, Darling

Water

Over the most recent Melbourne lockdown, I had, like many others, a lot of free time. Here is the product, loosely based on my favourite poem by Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric. 

Lyrics

I'll go over
like a jet plane
and I'll gaze out from my window to your body.
I'll go over
like a soft rain
and I'll bring a greener summer to your body.

I will
sing electric.
I will
heap my praise.

On an absent thought
I will see your face
and I'll wave out from the windows of my body.
I don't know sometimes
how to speak my mind,
but for once I'm staying quiet just to listen,

while I
feel electric, 
while I 
heap my praise,
while I 
touch you slowly,
while I'm 
gentle in a way I could not be before. 

Before I knew there was such earthy joy in loving a moment on your own, 
I was spilling forth,
filling up my foreign home and 
hoping, always hoping for someone to come along, 
but in a moment on my own 
I find a new morning.

In the garden, I'll be tending to my soil.
At my touch, I don't recoil. 

And I'll sing the body electric 
I'll sing the body electric 
I'll sing the body electric
I'll sing, I'll sing
I'll sing the body electric  
I'll sing the body electric
I'll sing 

I was once the soldier beating down my door,
now you'll find me finally resting in my body.
On a day like this 
I might let you in
and you'll show me what is living in your body.

Body Electric

Happy birthday, Renny x

Thank you, Irene Zhong, for the beautiful harmonies and strings. 

Lyrics: 

Candle on a backlit stage,
lit up while I play
and you watch me sing sing sing.
No, not the curtain yet,
I have more to say.
So stay.

But you stand at my second verse,
say, "I know it hurts,
but I've seen this all before.
I've lived life one thousand times,
I've done this and 
now I must go."

It is what it is,
I end up letting you.
It is what it is.
Never forgetting to

play til my song is done,
there for everyone,
while you walk to the back of the room.
Empty where you stood,
where you stood,
but the show must go on.

I feel without you,
sing without you.
Be in a world that spins endlessly forward.
I play to the chorus
one more time,
sing meaningless, feelingless lines.

It is what it is
and I hate it for being so, 
but it is, it is, it is, it is.
It is what it is
and I hate it,
but not you, never ever.

It is what it is

Here's a song I wrote: 

Fifty years strapped to his chest, 
He kissed his best friend 
And then he left, 
Saying, "a proud man does things he's proud of."

He was once nineteen 
On that midnight scene
And love back then would tear your doors open.

Say, can't you see these constellations of things I've done 
Stuck to places where I've been and hung my clothes out,
Constellations of hands stretching inwards 
And feeding from the flesh I have inside.
You're already here, you might as well stay the night.

Is it really so insane to want, want something better 
Than the ceiling etcha sketching out your mind.
Baby I will take you out to an island way out on the sea.
We will have our holiday and bring our family,
Spend our nights making love out on the sand.

And I'll show you these constellations of things I've done, 
Left in places where I've been and hung my clothes out.
Constellation of hands stretching inwards 
And taking from the flesh I have inside. 
I love you baby, come on, come on, be my life.

She says, "I am racing home to check up on you baby, 
I'm worried you'll do something bad.
You keep talking about those years you'll never get back."
How'd I find a woman like you to take me on?
My mother was an awful drinker, and I'm her wayward son.
I'm so glad you called me tonight
Cos I want to call you, and
We all know what these itchy fingers wish that they could do.

I am a proud man,
I do things I'm proud of.
I am a proud man,
I do things I'm proud of.

Can't you see this constellation, all that I have become?
I am a mess of stars, and the blazing of suns.
A constellation, these hands always in me,
Taking taking never putting back.
We wait up smoking til the sky turns black.

Constellations

Lyrics: 

Held by a transience
And fixed by a meaning 
My words do not define. 

Made into a promise by the fact of my being,
I will come when the clock will chime. 

And by the last light of day 
I will finally be brave enough to face it. 

Ah... Home. Home. 
Ah... Home. Home. Home. 

And as I stood by the door to my communion with myself 
I fear that my feet are turning stone. 

And if I only turned and sprinted 
For the waves of my betrayal, 
All my choices would be swallowed and be gone. 

Ah... Home. Home. 
Ah... Home. Home. Home. 

But I knock and I go in and I must ask you all a question. 
I am here to find an answer, I am here to find an answer,
I am here to find an answer, I am here to find an answer,
I am here to find an answer, I am here to find an answer,
I am here to find an answer.  

Home, home, home.

Home

Here's a wee song I did up today. I hope you enjoy it. 

Lyrics

Lay me down
Be gentle with me from now on
I forgive
Everything
Else you've done

I walk from the train out to the sea
On the sand, you spill from me
They put that word there in my mouth
I would never snitch you out
Baby
You know me
A secret is a sexy thing to keep

Lay me down
Carve your name into my skin
Let no one else go where you have been
Eclipse the sun, forget the heat
In your shadow I gladly sleep
I'll make more and more and more of the dark side of the moon 
Born and live and die facing you
Born and live and die facing you

Lay me down
Love me gently if you want
And if not
You don't have to stop

Gently

I'm 26, Australian, and a pianist/singer-songwriter. I'm just learning to call myself a musician. Although I am home now, I'm still in love with Ireland and all I want to do forever is sing.

YouTube: coolishtypegurl

Amelia Adler

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