can't believe I found my favourite song of the year in February!

sex is good (but have you tried)

Rush

Anju - lyrics, vocals, string arrangement, instrumentation, production
Atlas Finch - production, instrumentation
Leonardo Vásquez Chácon - viola
John Mark Nelson - mixing
Alec Ness - mastering
Lily Xie - cover artwork

Gratitude to Dan Ramström and Nick J Meyerson

LYRICS:

Wake up to an open window and summer split ends
Last night and the cigarette grit still echoes and bends
I still taste you under my tongue
I don't want you, but you linger in my lungs

It's been months now, we're nearing on November
But sometimes to fall asleep, I stop to remember
The curve of your cheek

The sparsely filled subway car when midnight had passed
Giving thanks to the slices of sky as I maze my way back

There in the gate kept garden
Across from the alleyway stairs
Under the light of the corner store
You tucked a lock of my hair

Am I glowing yet?
Am I going to rain? I feel a monsoon in my chest
Drip to my knees
Believing again

Now I'm enveloped in yellow
I still dream I have insect wings
Reaching for creatures in make-believe lands
I speak through the worlds that I sing

The bugs below hum to the stars
I keep our New York night in a jar
Maybe some day I will go back
Maybe it's best when I dream from afar

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a cicada
Only emerging for moments like these
Only knowing how to sing in the times in between

It's been a long many years underground
I shake my shell, I make my sound
Awake to the world and I'm here to remember aloud
I remember

There in the gate kept garden
Across from the alleyway stairs
Under the light of the corner store
You tucked a lock of my hair

Am I glowing yet?
Am I going to rain? I feel a monsoon in my chest
Drip to my knees
Believing again

Am I floating yet?
Are my feet on the floor, or am I suspended in night?
Wings on my back
I flit like a kite
credits

Cicada

Lyrics:
A gardener, his pasture, a pastor of Growing and Affection
He walks with his flock of black sheep well
well, that love him

They're on their way down
They're on their way down
They're on their way down
They're on their way down

And then there's me, a person that thinks of dying at 23
a dramatic, complacent, complaining heap
of a Black Sheep

I'm on my way down
I'm on my way down
I'm on my way down
I'm on my way down

way down (DEMO)

I MET A GIRL (A GIRL NAMED ANGEL)

You wanna know how’d I get here, did I
roll myself down a very big hill, did i
dot my I’s, cross my t's, see a shrink, did i 
stop at some old well to drink, well no
I met a girl 

You wanna know how’d I get so smart, did I
study bibles or economist charts, did I
learn to talk to the mirror real nice, did I 
stop at some prophet’s cave for advice, hell no
I met a girl named        

Angel
no grand gestures 
no metaphors
no one needs more
just a girl named Angel
to tell it to me sock it to me play it cool 

You wanna know how did I fucking get through, was it
scientology or going semi-koo-koo, was it
how she held me like a seashell to her ear, was it
how she listened without judgment or fear like whoa
I met a girl named

Angel
no grand gestures 
no metaphors
no one needs more
Just a girl named Angel
to tell it to me sock it to me play it cool 

And if you run I'm right behind you  
there’s no lonely one I’m right behind you 
There’s a hidden sun in every type of weather
as long as we’re together 
Run! I’m right beside you 
There’s no lonely one I’m right beside you 
There’s a hidden sun in every type of weather
As long as we’re together

Angel
no grand gestures 
no metaphors
no one needs more
Just a girl named Angel
to tell it to me sock it to me play it cool 

Just a girl named Angel

I Met a Girl (a Girl Named Angel)

This second episode explores the idea of amor, the complexities of falling in love and sustaining it. The interview is with artist Nadia Westcott, the radio drama is a sound project by Crystal B. and the documentary portion is a question + answer game recorded with family in Lima, Peru.

Centered around telling stories in three different forms, Interviews, Radio Dramas and Documentary, 'Life Dasit' is a personal project produced to learn about the process of making audio and more importantly to speak to the community around me.

Air Date: ZUMIX Radio 94.9FM - East Boston - February 24th 2018

Amor Es

OB / //

We Fucked Up

song maker. booking, press, feelings - anjutunes[at]gmail[dot]com

Cicada

Anju

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