GIVE US THE MOON MIX  - A Bee Named Hallelujah

If I came here tonight, I came to sing you a love song, I'm done chasing broken things
I know I'm a little bit late
I grow slowly, I am water, I wake up like a child
There's no telling how long it will take until I'm whole

O, Mother I know you try
O, Father I do not chase your life

There's a telephone string from my heart to yours
It's broken and burning, but I try to ask forgiveness
Holy, everything you've given
Don't be fooled by the sinners

I am lost in the water over thee
Of thee, of thee
I'm lost in the water
Lost in the water
Of thee, of thee
I'm lost in the water
Lost in the water

All I've ever asked to be was my own breath
Like a starlight prayer left in silence

Got the best of my heart waking

Flight is a river and I want it
Flight is a river and I want it
Flight is a river and I want it

If I came here tonight, I came to sing you a love song, I'm done fixing broken things
The book in my hand, the blood that I leave
I am raising
Who knows how long it will take till I'm whole
I wake like a child
We all take our own sweet time, don't we, little lights

Flight is a river and I haunt it
Flight is a river and I want it
Flight is a river and I want it

RAW May 2017 - Flight Is A River

RAW MATERIALS / JUNE 2017

This one is pure scrap-booking, complete with laughter, wildly swinging emotions and tone changes. Welcome to my journal, friends.

xxxox Essy

RAW June 2017 - Travelling Songs, Dogeared

Drum and Vocal experiment / beat building and yelling at stars

Beat the Drum /

What should we do with this canvas?
This is where we wake up
Waters rising and I'm a dove
This is where we beat the drum
This is where we end up

What should we do with this canvas?
Tattooed skin and a pirate smile
Got me baby, where you want Love 
And I am gonna try to fight

This is where we beat the drum
This is where we end up
This is where we beat the drum
This is where we wake up
This is where we beat the drum
This is where we stand up

Baby have you go your hands up?
I'm not trying to be difficult

What we are is forged in fire
What we are is forged in fire
What we are is forged in fire, Love 

Waters rising are you with me love?
Wake in my bones says you're the only one

Friction and fire make me wanna come

This is where we beat the drum
This is where we end up
This is where we beat the drum
This is where we wake up
This is where we beat the drum
This is where we stand up

RAW Materials

RAW August 2017 - Beat The Drum

this is an "i got over it" folk song for an ancient heartbruise
a little folk thing i may never develop

xxo E

lyrics:

I'm caught up in the middle of it
Wake from sleep remembering your lies
Did you want to make me an example?
Did you want to hang me out to dry?
Standing soft here in my river
I am free and I am fine

We were hope, we were open
We were holding out our hands

You came like it was nothing
Up and walked into my room
Cast a spell and set your poisons
and they dried up like a July stolen moon

baby dont fight

All you had to do was ask her name
Years go by and you will feel the same

Think that you can make me an example?
Think that you can hang me out to dry?
I am hope 
I am open
I am holding out my hands

I am free in my ocean
Calling on the waves
Calling on the tides
Drawing out your bullet and I wash you from my mind

Calling on the waves
Calling on the tides
Drawing out your bullet and I wash you from my mind

RAW September 2017 : July Stolen Moon

lyrics sung from multiple written memos in my phone, scrolling through notes in real time, avoiding schedules and gate codes, phone numbers for old bosses.

RAW October 2017 - 3 Lies And A Truth

i have walked along these roads
i have known my place in the silence
i move like this
i have whistled down dark paths
refusing to light my way
i move like this

the stars know me so well
better than my family or friends
theres a silence
i can not begin to spell
we all know this

if you walk in the woods
were probably brothers
if you walk in the woods
you know all my best spells

i have walked down these roads
i could walk them forever
i have broken the light and come back
i have given the stars away
the so many ive named

i can look up and remember my lovers
i can look up and remember the ones 
i have left in the lane

and the stars know me so well
better than my family or friends
theres a silence i can not begin to spell
we all know this

if you walk in the woods
were probably brothers
if you walk in the woods
you know all my best spells

and the stars know you so well

RAW November 2017 - Walk In The Woods

lyrics (roughly)

your golden rings
wrapped 'round your head
time to pull away
some tides return

you make an exit into a song
i am deep water
i never return
never return

we were the worst thing that i can think of
climbing and barely half down
i have learned to love the answers
why / goodbye / no 
and when will it all?
when will it all?

you got your white linen 
i love in hotel rooms
i love the silence
you love the virtue

we were blue
blue as lightning
how didn't i see it

you would think after all these years of stargazing
i would recognize
at the edge of electric we wait for a sign

i have lost this one
i have found an ocean

into the sea again, my heart
into the sea again, my love

RAW December 2017 - The Sea Again

RAW January 2018 - Cut My String

RAW April 2018 - Stranger

Kristen Plays Tennis - On Yr Knees
melody/vocals/lyrics : Essy Hart
production: Lisa Hickox
instagram @kristenplaystennis / @essyplaysdirty

Produced by Essy Hart @essyplaysdirty
Directors of Photography
Rose Ngyuen and Aaron Inman
Editor
Jason Ogawa

Starring:
Karina Vahitova
Gregory Barnett
Essy Hart
Eddie Gessford
Carolyn Manning
Christina Havis
Villis Yore
Mayson Tillotson
Jessie Meehan
Amy Skarb
Jonathan Fairchild
Bekah Fly
Dee Filecia
Sara Barsky
Alana Baum
Shakeitha Green
Robin
Raelena Massie
CJ Britz
Captain 
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KRISTEN PLAYS TENNIS - On Yr Knees

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