no one

coda

i don't move, i

you fear only love
say you won’t
say 
you won’t leave 
you own
everyone here but i 
want you to see me alone
say you won’t 
stay 
you want me
i don’t need you to be mine

monkey don’t say no monkey don’t feel none
monkey don’t see no monkey don’t wanna hear none

and you are the part of me
you are the part of me that don’t feel good
don’t feel good
you are a part of me
you you are a part of me but i don’t feel good
i don’t feel good, mo-


(instrumental)

swan songs

monkey

where the non existent

in your garden 
i grow 
you come to me wet with leaves 
and colour
on your hands and knees
come like early morning 
myrtle all in bloom
and rain falling on you

In my dreaming you grow
you grow new
out of the bark
in flower  
it unripens you
and all the life inside is fragrant and it’s new
you’ve grown on me 

in your garden I grow
in your dreaming

in your garden - feat. Saint Jude

i want to lie up
and lie down
-
two young 
women
out
to discover (their songs)
-
children swim
through life beside me
i’m running
over clover
speak of life and ruin
-
oh you’re young
-
stiff with time
like hours
speak out loud
-
ah
choosing 
between hunger and thirst
swallow
boredom 
into the table
eating watermelon inside

swallow - feat. Saint Jude

Here's a cover of Hey, Who Really Cares by Linda Perhacs. 
It had been requested aaaaages ago by my good friend Tristan and I guess it was just floating around in the mess that is my hard drive.. Anyway! Here it is, my acoustic version recorded with the awesome Peter John Walsh --- x

Hey, Who Really Cares by Linda Perhacs - cover

Recording, arrangement, mix and artwork by me.
Original song by Nico :)


These Days by Nico - cover

"put some special tubes into the right side of the heart.
put some tapes around the great veins
that enter the right side of the heart.
when these are snugged down,
direct all the blue blood 
back to the heart."

"It seemed incredible that it could be probed,
open to examination,
cut into,
repaired.

repaired."

"we knew there was a hole in his heart but where?
how could this organ function at all with a hole in it?!"/

.

/I wanna pick up the pieces of a broken pot,
collect them from the floor to the table, 
I wanna wake in the morning and find them gone,
back into the cupboard as a whole.

I wanna pick up the pieces of your shattered heart,
leave them laying on the table for the night.
I wanna wake in the morning and find it intact,
pumping on the surface in a puddle of blood.
 
I wanna open you chest and put it back,
softly placing it between the cushions of your lungs.
And when I sew back your limbs with a golden thread,
you won't be dead anymore, you won't be dead.

repaired // you won't be dead

did you see the sun rise
from over the mountain?
why is it that dawn
is never warm?

did you hear the ice it's
thickening the fall
but did you see the sun rise
from over the mountain?

and did it fight the darkness?

shadows come out from behind the leaves
can you feel their cold fingers against your cheeks?
in the dark the moonlight pouring on the trees
fears, they don't ever let me sleep

but did you see the sun rise 
from over the mountain?
and did it fight the darkness?

//

there's a mirror in the living room
that deforms all of the features
no one's here to prove it wrong
what if
it reflects my real nature?
there's a theatre in the kitchen
and the characters are waiting
"there's a turkey in the oven hun,
you're the strong one,
won't you take it?"
there are children in the garden
chasing after each snowflake
and the dog is always barking
the cat stealing from the plate
there's a mirror in the living room
that deforms all of the features
what if this is just a dream, my love?
what if that is our true nature?
and there's fire in the stove.

did you see the sun rise // mirror

mirror

did you see the sun rise
from over the mountain?
why is it that dawn
is never warm?

did you hear the ice it's
thickening the fall
but did you see the sun rise
from over the mountain?

and did it fight the darkness?

shadows come out from behind the leaves
can you feel their cold fingers against your cheeks?
in the dark the moonlight pouring on the trees
fears, they don't ever let me sleep

but did you see the sun rise 
from over the mountain?
and did it fight the darkness?

did you see the sun rise

who are all of these people?
i don't see anyone i know
i can't see you

someone said you were coming
and i'm stood here waiting trying to chat
to somebody new

and then i see you
oh it's not you
and i hear you
you have the voice of someone new
and i had you
but you slip away
i can't touch you
anymore anyway

i see you // northern lights

i see you

when the feeling's over
there's not much to say
you poured into each other once
now that garden has withered away
leaves
you with remains
of
shrivelled insides
salty tears sometimes.

hunger leads the fun ride
when couples divide
into single sides

like apples from that apple & cherry pie:
taste's alright.

when the feeling's over
there's not much to say
you put down the phone
stare at the ceiling that's floating away.

it's ok.

when the feeling's over // rewind, not

when the feeling's over

in the garden of summer where we once laid
the sun pours lovely on the bones and the grass lulls
heavy sleepy heads to stone
the music comes up flying from the roses
the bees swallowed by the flowers
sky turns multicolor windwheel

in the garden of summer where we once spoke
your curls lonely like a meadow, like a storm
words are funny little things
hang there teasing in the air
your skin melts under my finger
turning multicolor windwheel

other drugs EP

of gardens

let me hold your gentle hand
lead you dancing in my arms
in my arms in my arms in my arms in my arms

that was really nice, you say
come sing for me every day
every day every day every day every day

i'll put on lovely shows for you
you know i'd do whatever you
told me to told me to told me to told me to do

shall we follow?
is it so wrong?
i don't need you all for myself
shall we go on?
is it so wrong to be afraid?
and i'm scared we're just wasting time
leave me alone
when it's bad it's bad it's bad
it's all we know

let me hold your gentle hand
lead you dancing in my arms
in my arm in my arms in my arms in my arms

that was really nice, you say
come sing for me every day
every day every day every day every day

i'll put on lovely shows for you
you know i'd do whatever you
told me to told me to told me to told me to do

my blue florentine

do i sound lonely like you?

i pull myself closer
is it too close?
the door is open on the stairs
on both floors
there are people around me
but i can't see their faces
it sits on the counter
a line and a drink and it's
pulling me closer
is it too close?
i take it all in and then reach for more
it's taken and teasing and doesn't care
holds on to me just because i'm there

do i sound lonely like you?

so cut me to pieces
maybe if there's more of me i won't feel alone
oh, we all die so neatly
thinking that we're so deeply in love

so cut me to pieces
or love me completely 
love
cut me to pieces
no more of this weakness
this indescrete bleakness
love
cut me to pieces

lonely like you

redwoods
i'm feeling so confused
they have the thickest bark on earth
i can't figure out
why you would tell me all those things
they're resistant to disease
i can't believe 
these big trees come from small seeds and
how selfish
i needed love

redwoods (a few interesting facts about sequoias)

Music and Lyrics - Francesca Brierley a.k.a heka
Vocals, Guitar, Beats, Mix - Francesca Brierley a.k.a heka
Bass, Guitar, Piano - Ed Tullett
Trumpet - Jemima Coulter
Production - Ed Tullett & Francesca Brierley a.k.a. heka
Master - Dan Duszynski at Dandysounds. Austin, TX.

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Lyrics:

well i see you walking on the edge of it all
i see a wall, you walking on the edge of it all
and if hate is better than numb, but you bite your tongue
i see a wall

tongue hits the door --
no, nobody gets what they want anymore
and if hate is better than numb, hate is better then
hate is better than numb, cos i know sooner of later it’s gone.

(a) EP

(a) wall

you leave me tied onto the floor
i wonder what i came here for if you're not even listening and
you hold me pinned against the wall
oh god why did i fall in love with you

you stretch me out across the bed
i wish that you had fed me with some kind of knowledge 
on how to get out of this mess
i'm thinking about --
i'm thinking about you

cos all night, like a child
i stayed up to prove i can keep up with you

i take a dab of you and lick my finger
i've done it once before and i'd forgotten how it lingers
i'm lying on the floor and i can't pick my limbs up
i've done it once before
and i'd forgotten how it stings, i'd forgotten how it hurts
to be the only one in love

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Music and Lyrics - Francesca Brierley a.k.a. heka
Mix - Francesca Brierley a.k.a. heka
Master - Dan Duszynski at Dandysounds. Austin, TX.

(a) dab

i peel the wires open
it's all exposed
you're throwing water at them
it's dangerous
but when i touch you it doesn't burn
no when i touch them it doesn't hurt
it's dangerous

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Music and Lyrics - Francesca Brierley a.k.a. heka
Mix - Francesca Brierley a.k.a. heka
Master - Dan Duszynski at Dandysounds. Austin, TX.

. heka

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