I had a poll for recording in early March, and this song won! This took a while to make happen because of a series of events that seemed determined to keep me from recording. It is done at last, however, so enjoy!

Lyrics:

Her soul’s an arrow with an expiration date
But your heart is birds’ bone, easy to break
Strange things she whispers on rainy days
You’re just a girl with lovestruck carved into your face

And you couldn’t list the ways
For love is an unnamed taste
It’s buried beneath your bones
With hopes that you tied to stones, oh

When she’s sitting in your mind you feel a hole
But when she’s sitting in your room you think you know

‘Cause her soul’s an arrow with an expiration date
But your heart is birds’ bone, easy to break
Strange things she whispers on rainy days
You’re just a girl with lovestruck carved into your face

Arrow with an Expiration Date

DIY Or Cry - Cover of Human Petting Zoo

Stream free on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6FobS464tOAoeOG5tcbSG4
You can stream or purchase "Ivory" on Bandcamp: http://helenaruth.bandcamp.com/track/ivory 

Music video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_Eet--rWVCk 
and Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/helenaruthmusic/videos/1162215773819332

Please give the music video a look, so much work by so many talented people went into making it <3

Album art by SickingStar! (http://sickingstar.tumblr.com/)

Lyrics: 

It was a long and silent cry 
She spoke before she died 
I never true knew why 
I even tried 
Then just ivory lips she left 
To speak the words of the dead 
And this was what she said, fast losing sight 

When the heart does cease to beat 
How long must the mind survive? 
For only seconds split 
Until the night 
Or do agony hours ensue 
To follow the light inside of you 
Until it’s sudden through 
Into the blue 

It was a long and drawn-out sigh 
I breathed before I died 
I never true knew why 
She even tried 

Then just empty eyes I left 
To see the world of the dead 
As quietly she fled, out of my sight

✿❀✿

Helena Ruth on Tumblr: www.helenaruth.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCa8ZQSQiQc7nQoGzhr6FyfQ
Bandcamp: helenaruth.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/helenaruthmusic/
Twitter: twitter.com/helenaruthmusic

Credits:
Piano arrangement by Chad Stockslager 
Produced by McKenzie Smith 
Strings arranged by Buffi Jacobs (www.buffijacobs.com) 
Sound engineering by Jordan Martin 
Violin—Roni Gan (www.veronicagan.com) 
Bass—Mike Luzecky 
Guitar—Joey McClellan (twitter.com/joeymcclellan) 
Keyboard—Evan Jacobs 
Recorded at Redwood Studios, Denton TX (www.facebook.com/redwooddenton) 

"Ivory" from Good Kids, released January 2, 2016 
Lyrics and music by Helena Ruth 

Artwork © 2015 Holly Johnson at SuperSilvane.deviantart.com (used with permission) 

© 2015 Helena Ruth 
℗ 2015 Helena Ruth

Ivory

Davyd pogo (al remix)

I wrote a song about the natural world (not yet uploaded) and then wrote a sequel about what we are doing to it. Please enjoy and reflect with Organic Planet Part 2.

Organic Planet Part 2

'Raven' - to be released March 1st 2017

Domini Forster leads you by the hand through the dusk-lit corridors of her intricate song-stories, each scene as intimate and lovelorn as tea-stained lace. There, hovering deftly in the breathless spaces between light and dark, is Raven: the remarkably assured debut album from one of Melbourne’s brightest new voices in modern folk.

Turn The Light On

from my album "the summer i met the storm" inspired by denpasei's "ultramarine weather." 
download the album: http://helenaruth.com/storm
read the comic: https://tapas.io/series/ultramarineweather

lyrics:
highline, licorice 
nicotine, flick the wrist 
daylight, wasted... 
lover, it's an easy miss 

bar-side, riverbed, say; 
where you gonna rest your weary head? 
oh, what a fine night... 
say _sir,_ could you spare a light? 

--- 

highline, 
licorice nicotine, 
flick the wrist. 
daylight, wasted... 
lover, it's an easy miss. 

bar-side, 
riverbed, 
say. 
where you gonna rest your weary head? 
snakebites and long sighs 
get off the counter, get a life. 

--- 

[i don't THINK so. huh!] 
[did'ya hear what she said?]

the summer i met the storm

lover, it's an easy miss / barside, riverbed

http://helenaruth.com/muse
I said: "I saw you, I wanted to turn it back. I saw you, I wanted it to go another way. I too have despaired. I, too, felt it circle within me, all teeth and feathers. Don't leave, now, when there is still a chance... ! Don't shed your blood upon this sand, come back into my arms... 
Rosy in the golden hour. Barefoot on the shore. Lie your rusty head upon my lap, fold your gilded wings. 

Did we deserve better, or did I just want it? 

The world's end begins in the water, and the waters are red. We can watch it from here. I promise."
lyrics
is there blood beneath your nails? 
sun casting gold upon the sails 
are you waiting on an answer 
that doesn’t come? 

and as you’re standing by the water 
gods, i too have thought... 
but i’m still waiting on an answer, 
that doesn’t come. 

and as you’re standing in the water—a thousand frames i’ve seen a dozen times and words i’ve heard before—that this is the betrayal, 
it’s the blood beneath my nails 
it’s a train run off the rails 
but i’ve been this way before. 

and this is where i’d end it, 
i would twist it, i would bend it 
i would change the way it’s written 
‘cause i’ve sung this song before 

do we really have to do this? 
just to raise it, must you bruise it, 
god,/? i hate the way it’s written 
‘cause i wrote this song before 

and as you’re kneeling in the water 
(gods, i, too, have thought.) 
but i’m still waiting on an answer… 
and i'm not sure that it comes. 

is there blood beneath your nails? 
sun sinking red upon the sails 
are you still waiting on an answer… ? ✧

The Muse and the Devil

Red Upon the Sails

http://helenaruth.com/muse
i said: "i wanted to try not being afraid, but i still am. only you ever weren't. i envied that, you know? even though i shouldn't have. 

don't i get to be anything else? don't i even get the chance to show mercy? i think i saw it then; teeth and eyes. terrible. a body of despair. an impossible longing. 

the sanctuary in the dark. we sat, daring, solid, on the guardrail of the balcony, on the smell of polished wood. 
even though i knew how to play the organ, 
we sat in silence. 
it's the last place anyone would look."

lyrics:
(oh) 

would you call me the devil, if you 
saw it in my eyes? would you 
cast me to the floor, so wicked… 
i don’t think i could cry, and if you 
kill all your daughters, if you’ve no 
mercy on your sons, if you 
let the red-tide waters, if you 
let these waters run 

well, i’ve heard this before 
i’ve heard this, i 
i’ve heard this before 
i’ve heard this 
i, i’ve heard this before 
i’ve heard this, i 
i’ve heard this before 
i’ve heard… 

that the devil is the same as me 
and angels who would greet the sea, then 
come to rest down at my feet. 
their hair’s the same, but their eyes don’t bleed 

and the devil’s never met her match 
her eyes are wide, her voice is cracked 
and if you slept without a bat, 
i think you could be glad of that 

well the devil is the same as me 
his body’s bursting at the seams 
his eyes are wide, his words are mean 
i’m jealous, i’m not so obscene, well. 

the devil’s never met their match 
the doors are locked, the windows’s latched, but 
if i slept without a bat 
i wouldn’t worry ‘bout all that 

'cause i’ve heard this, i 
i’ve heard this before 
i’ve heard this 
i, i’ve heard this before 
i’ve heard this, i 
i’ve heard this before 
i’ve heard… 

so why 
make me the devil? think i 
outta play the rebel? think i like 
sleeping in the stable? you think there’s 
blood, beneath my nails? 

so why 
must we be the devils? can’t you 
see she's child? can’t you 
let me live once wild? won’t you say 
that i’m worthwhile, 
would 
you. 
... 
call me the devil, if you 
saw it in my eyes? would you, 
cast me to the floor, so wicked… 
i don’t think i could cry, and if you 
kill all your daughters, if you’ve no 
mercy on your sons, if you 
let the red-tide waters, if you 
let these waters run… 

… 

well, i’ve heard it before. ✦

The Devil Is the Same as Me

First time ever making this kind of stuff. To be honest, I'm digging this process of production of music. Really fun. Hope you guys enjoy it.

You,me First

all credit for this song goes to Brian David Gilbert and Jonah Scott over at The Altogether. Please go support them!

Mountain Man Song // The Altogether

hey! i'm helena. i write a lot of songs about webcomics, the devil, and video games. that’s my brand. http://www.helenaruth.com

i run handshake collaborations (http://hscollabs.tumblr.com)

Arrow with an Expiration Date

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