Dust - Wild Hum

This song is for our recently deceased friend, Derrian "Deante" Baylock.

~Love for eternity, Deante~

Composed by David Palmer
Written & performed by Hannah Rooth
Graciously mastered by Joe Bozzi of Bernie Grundman Mastering

Alternate mix with video available on http://instagram.com/palmerdrums/channel

LYRICS
No peace
You came to me
Go be
Your soul is free

If home is in the heart
Then that is where you are
If home is in the heart
Then that is where you are
If home is in the heart
Then that is where you are
If home is in the heart
Then that is where you are

Go sleep
Take what you need
So leave

Deante's Hymn

So Lush & Hannah Rooth Collaboration

LYRICS

Why you gotta build me up
Just so you can cut me down
Baby I ain't askin' for much
Just stop throwin' my heart around
You don't wanna give me up
You're too scared to put it down
Baby I ain't askin' for much
Just stop throwin' my heart around
You ain't gotta pick me up
Just don't tell me you'll be coming around
I got my heart on sleeve you got that power on me
And I'm beggin' I'm beggin'
Why you gotta build me up

Why you gotta build me up
Why you gotta build me up
Why you gotta build me up
Gotta build me up
Cut me down
Build me up

Guess you couldn't think deep
Couldn't take the real thing
Don't you know a woman as good as me
Comes from the inside
Isn't gonna try to hide
I am simply me

If you can't open up inside
better luck next time

Why you gotta build me up
Just don't tell me you'll be coming around
I got my heart on sleeve you got that power on me
And I'm beggin' I'm beggin'

Why you gotta build me up
Why you gotta build me up
Why you gotta build me up
Gotta build me up

Needed something from me but
Couldn't take the real thing
Don't you know that when it feels this right
Grabs on the inside
Gonna be a down side
The loss of control could blow your mind

If you can't take the risk this time 
Cut me off your line

Why you gotta build me up
Why you gotta build me up
Why you gotta build me up
Just don't tell me you'll be comin' around
I got my heart on my sleeve you got that power on me
And I'm beggin' I'm beggin'

Why you gotta build me up
Why you gotta build me up
Why you gotta build me up
Gotta build me up
Cut me down
Why you gotta build me up

Build Me Up

Do Me Like That is for anyone who’s been led on while sexting when you really just need to get it in. LA’s “music for misfits” artist Hannah Rooth brings high-energy sex-positive feminist electropop that’ll leave you with a glowing post-coital toothy grin. Mastered by Joe Bozzi (Bernie Grundman, “Where Is The Love,” BEP), this song is just fun! And the music video will feature A LOT of bananas. FFO Charli XCX, Lilyisthatyou. Rooth is an LGBTQ artist/activist building power through vulnerability.

Do Me Like That

“Loneliness is dangerous,” resounds this deep, dark baroque journey through an ocean of suffering that any listener can relate to in their own hidden way. This live piece explores the depth of a universal suffering -loneliness- with purity of heart and intention. Confronting the dangers of alienation in both society & the complex human heart, songwriter Hannah Rooth exposes an open wound to the air where it can heal. Piano-pop FFO Birdy, FATM, Feist. Rooth makes music for misfits & LGBTQ folks.

Dangerous (Live) - Wild Hum

Live recording of a tender, lyric-centric song. Explores the conflict of aiming to be true to one's nature in a society that opposes nature. 

LYRICS

Well I’ve been havin days where I feel like I’m not enough
I guess you know the feeling I’m just saying that’s it’s tough
And I do not belong in this container that they’ve made
Not sayin that I’m special just hoping that I’m brave
Enough to stay
Human
Under all this weight

To be honest I like the way I am
I like that I’m tender I like that I understand
That we deserve to enjoy this planet that we roam
That everyone deserves to be together not alone
Oh I’m trying to be sober, I’m trying to be sane
I’m trying to be honest and it goes against the grain
And I’ve got splinters
From being human
Under all this weight

Well I guess you know the feeling and I’m sure I’m not alone
And I hope somehow together we can change the way this goes
But the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting long
And sometimes I’m just not sure since we’ve been doing it all wrong
So I’m begging please be honest, and I’m here to say be brave enough to stay
Human
Under all this weight

If you're wondrin where I'm going
If you wonder what I mean
Well I think that it's important that I'm clear about one thing
That the only thing that matters is that you untie the knots
That you used to lace your chest and your more tender feelings block
There's a lot in life that's scary but one thing that you can trust
And you’ll find it in the unencumbered center of your heart
That's the thing that we call love
Under all this weight

Human Under All This Weight

Make You Feel My Love (Live Cover)

feat. Lucian Waters
Mastered by Joe Bozzi of Bernie Grundman

Photography by Allison Tulk

what's a star

The story following is from a new friend of mine in Los Angeles. Please read - it's so beautiful.

"Gaza helped me believe in miracles, I witnessed the power of love in one of the most “hopeless” places on earth. 

I got to work on entrepreneurship projects in Palestine between 2016-2019 with AngelHack. When I was prepping to visit Gaza, someone who lived 20 minutes away from its border told me I would likely be “brutally murdered” there because of my Jewish ancestry. What happened was the opposite, to me Palestinians are our ancient cousins and they treated me royally as many people fleeing oppression have experienced. There is an old saying in the region "every bloodline will have both royalty and refugees, so remember to have mercy when it's your turn to have power." Soon after entering through Erez crossing and a kilometer long cage surrounded by weaponry and snipers, I had a feeling of energetic suffocation knowing I was closed in on all sides by cages, walls and high-tech death machines. Inside, I saw mostly teens and children. I started feeling angry that none of the people I saw could leave this tiny crowded strip in their entire lifetimes, yet Gazans had a strange calmness and sweetness, and with all their brushes close to death treated each day like a miracle as we all should but forget to. When speaking of any future possibilities I noticed they prefaced it with “If I’m alive…”. We forget most there never really resist the horrible life conditions they’re handed and quietly hold their great suffering all their lives in a way Westerners couldn’t imagine. Yet we’re all fresh with judgments when misery from these lands disturbs Western “peace” that is built on the suffering of millions across the planet. 

Coming from the land of moral apathy and riches, the “gated community of the world” where our city streets are spotted with our unhoused citizens, I noticed after a few days I hadn’t seen a single homeless person in Gaza even though they have a youth unemployment rate of over 70% and regular displacements from policies of collective punishment. I asked why and was gently told in Gaza people would never allow that, communities are so integrated and constantly checking on each other. So whenever it was discovered someone didn’t have food or a place to sleep everyone would collaborate until a solution was found, and this happened very often. One man in his 20s was given a rare opportunity to leave for a year to England and that was one of his biggest shocks. He told me “I can’t believe a country so much richer than us had people abandoned and hungry on the freezing streets… I just don’t understand.” That’s just one glimpse of the deep community and self-sacrificial love I saw throughout Gaza that could help us in the “first world” evolve. To love so deeply in conditions like that means they have something we still haven’t figured out. And it did create many "small" miracles as real love always does. 

One of my Persian cultures most famous poems by Saadi says “Humanity is one interconnected body. Whoever doesn’t feel the pain of one limb, is not fit to be called a human being.” In a world where divisions are constantly amplified and used for political purposes, we are also disconnected from our true selves, our hearts and our evolution potential. Othered humans are our great mirror. Until we see ourselves in the “other” we haven’t truly seen ourselves. We should remember our deep ultimate interdependence between all our “limbs”, and that what we allow in one place reverberates into the collective hearts and minds across this universe. Thank you Gaza for showing me how asleep the collective unconscious has been and also our potential strength, our potential great love encoded in all humanity."

~ Christina Lila Wilson

 
Generously engineered and produced by the wonderful DJ ZOLE, a pillar in the SoCal hip hop community and an amazing human.

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