This is a cover I did of Chelsea Wolfe's Halfsleeper. Created without permission, but I don't think she would mind! Recorded in one live take with vocal manipulation added.

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Halfsleeper - Chelsea Wolfe Cover

I worked on this for a long time and am generally happy with how it turned out. One of my favorite songs of all time. I am releasing this without permission, but I don't think the band would mind too much. Recorded and mixed by Daughter of Dawn with further mixing and mastering by Michael Duffy at Basement Studios. Enjoy and let me know what you think.

BQAD(FA) - Deftones Cover

Recorded one night during the pandemic.
Used without permission.
Recorded and mixed by Daughter of Dawn with further mixing and mastering by Michael Duffy at Basement Studios.

JoGa - Bjork Cover

This song is about the inherent selfishness of choosing to stay blind to the injustices that marginalized people face every day. It is about choosing to ignore those injustices because your privilege allows you to ignore them, and it’s easier to turn a blind eye and bury your head in the sand. It is a wake-up call to the people of the world to check your privilege and to never stop fighting for justice for all people until we are all free!

Lyrics
What if I walked through that door
And burned this whole city down

Because I can’t look anymore without
Without breaking down

So much grief
That I weep
Time to tear it apart

Being meek is the law
When you’re not on the line

Don’t you realize that
There is no they
Just us, just us

Don’t you realize that
There is no they
Just us, just us

Breeze through
With no thought
Ignore
Keep your eyes shut tight

Acquiesce then
Forget
And walk on through
Stay blind

Have you
Ever thought to view
Yourself
In the blinding light

We are flawed
We’re all robbed
I beg of you
Just open your eyes

Don’t you realize that
There is no they
Just us, just us

Don’t you realize that
There is no they
Just us, just us

All wanting the same things
Freedom, peace, beauty

All wanting the same fucking things
Freedom, peace, and beauty

No they
Only us
Just us
Just us

No they
Only us
Just us
Just us

That is all we have
Just us
Just us

That is all there is
Just us
Just us

Backing Vocals by Jenny Chavez

Scrutiny Under The Blinding Light

This song is about being queer in a world that is inherently fearful of difference. It is about not just surviving in an inhospitable world but instead bending the world to your will through sheer power so that you can thrive.

Lyrics
Queerness pleads
Lost in the void
Carve out space
Try to thrive

Push and shove
Pull myself up
From the ashes
Fill my own cup

(Chorus)
I want to
Move from survival
No need to
Be my own rival

Portions of this
Portions of that
There’s no space
That truly fits

Can’t we
Create something better
Bend the light and
Slash at the tether

(Chorus)
I want to
Move from survival
No need to
Be my own rival

Violin by Walken Schweigert

The Liminal Space In Which I Reside

This track is about love, sex, passion, vulnerability, and fear. It's about putting yourself out there despite the fact that you may get hurt. It's about worship and the sacred act of sharing yourself with someone that allows you to transcend time and space.

Lyrics
I will write
My whole name
Upon your tongue
Scratch deep for blood

It fills your throat
Just like the sound
Of when you come
In you I drown

(Chorus)
Your love is god
Your mind is god
Your smell is god
Your cunt is god

Your fingers reach
So deep inside
I jerk so sweet
Nowhere to hide

You fill me up
With all of you
Worship me now
Your aim is true

(Chorus)
Your love is god
Your mind is god
Your smell is god
Your cunt is god

Grasping At The Lustrous Arms Of Amory

I wrote these lyrics during the first weekend of the uprisings in Minneapolis (where I live)following the murder of George Floyd. At that time, I felt dismay, grief, and hopelessness and decided to put pen to paper. In the process, I remembered that I wasn’t a helpless bystander in perpetuating white supremacy. With that remembering came a renewed sense of purpose. As a white person, it is my duty to call out racism when I see it, uplift marginalized voices, prioritize listening to BIPOC individuals, and continually challenge myself to critically examine the ways that I benefit from the sickness of white supremacy. It is also my job to continually check my fragility and not check-out of this fight. I implore all of my fellow white people to do the same.

This is a song of hope as much as it is a song of dismay. Never stop fighting.

ACAB. BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Lyrics
It’s justice we seek
No justice, no peace
The list becomes long
Of those that cannot breathe

We won’t stop
We can’t stop
This cannot be tamed

This has gone on too long
And now the levees break
Justice calls to us
At an alarming rate

We won’t stop
We can’t stop
This cannot be tamed
This rage has been building
We are all to blame

Now’s the time to fight
The day is growing young
Their names shall burn
on every tongue

Say their names

Their Names Shall Burn On Every Tongue

This song is about falling in love while trans and during a pandemic and the uprisings. It is about loving someone so much that the beauty generated from that act is so wondrous that galaxies open before you. It is about love without judgment. Simple, striking, overwhelming, and godlike. Love that transcends worlds. It is about being seen exactly how you need to be seen, held how you need to be held, and witnessed for the magical creature that you are. It is about seeing that the whole world can exist within another person and within yourself.

For Jenny

Lyrics
I awoke
Beneath you
Sweet afterglow
In full bloom

I see
The whole of you
The darkness clouds
But I can peer through

The Whole World Moves Within You

You are the shadow
But I am so cunning
Encircling your walls
Ceasing the flooding

I see
The whole of you
The darkness clouds
But I can peer through

The Whole World Moves Within You

Video here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdQO2C62jU

Juniper Boughs Collide Upon My Shores

Looking for label support!!!

Daughter Of Dawn is the solo project of Emma Goldman Grey (Malachi, Contentious, Hive), a trans musician and activist residing in Los Angeles, California.

Whereas Emma's former musical work tended towards the visceral end of the music spectrum, Daughter Of Dawn utilizes softness, minimally distorted guitars, electronic pulses, and glitch elements to encapsulate songs about love, grief, joy, and justice.

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