so awesome i love the way your voice cuts through

Why and how didn't I find you sooner?! Love<3

I love imogen so much.. she's so talented and has a style of her own. 😍

your music has consistently changed my life for the better, imo

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Published by Megaphonic Publishing

Record label - Megaphonic Records

copyright 2015

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Lyrics

Oh my tiny human

At 05:08 you break me apart again

The space-time continuum

Buckles and bends around your every twist and turn
I can barely remember life before You came crashing in on one day Crazy beautiful you
 Blind me like the dawn
After ashes fell on Pompeii Crazy beautiful you
A miracle, a mystery

And one short stop away

From joy to misery.

When the night becomes day

I give you my every last ounce

You make a pin-cushion out of me

And you can thank me later, babe (if i'm alive)
How long can one live without sleep? Still i can't stand to imagine
 Life without....
You came crashing in on one day Crazy beautiful you
 Blind me like the dawn

After ashes fell on Pompeii
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Crazy bright beautiful you
Suddenly propelled,

So many light years from bliss
 And completely unprepared,
 How can anyone deserve this?

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I've tried, i've tried all the tricks in the book, I’m at my wits end, Now look here what do you want from me!?
I can barely remember life before... You came crashing in on one day Crazy beautiful you
 From the ashes of Pompeii
To fireworks and champagne Crazy beautiful you
You little devil, you

Oh i love you so much

It's the hardest thing i've ever done But you're so worth it
 Yes you are

Yes you are

You little devil, you
Recording Credits
Written, arranged, performed, produced and mixed by Imogen Heap
Imogen Heap – Vocals, programming, synths 
 Stephanie Appelhans - Violin

Diego Romano - Violin

Yasin Gündisch - Viola 

Hoang Nguyen - Violoncello

Simon Minshall - Trombone, Bass Trombone, 
 David Horwich - French Horn

Percussion – Florence “Scout” Heap-Lebor 
 Assistant engineer - Alexis Michallek

Studio Manager - Alexis Michallek
Recorded at The Hideaway, London
Mastering - Simon Heyworth Mastering assistant – Andy Miles String players appear courtesy of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
Artwork Credits
Sleeve design – Andy Carne

Streemliner - Andy Carne (File to be added) 
 Photography (stills from music video) – Michael Lebor 
 Image Selection from Music Video - Karen Carne
 
 
 Gear used for Recorded Song
Vocals :
Microphone: Neuman TLM 103 
 Pre-amp: Avalon Vt-737SP
Strings and Brass :
Microphones: Neumann TLM 103 - Sennheiser MK800 
 Pre-amps: Avalon Vt-737SP - Avalon AD2022
Instruments/ sounds:
Teenage Engineering OP1

Ameda Elite Breast Pump

Scout’s Rattles, Rustling cubes and Heimess Baby Gym
Software Instruments and DAW :

Avid Pro-Tools HD + Reaper Rewire

Plugins from Waves Gold Bundle and Focusrite D2/D3
EastWest - Orchestra Gold

Box Of tricks by Sonic Couture : Vocal Choir, Boomwhackers, Glockenspiel
Thanks
Scout Heap-Lebor, Michael Lebor, Alexis Michallek, Mum, Dad, sis and bro, Phil Cummings, Tim Shettatt, Uwe and all at Sennheiser, Ash Dorey, Jason Wapling, Jill Lebor, Giles, Kate, Jamie Bartlett, Paul Pacifico and all at the FAC, Vinay Gupta (and the Ethereum gang), Phil Barry and Russell Verbeeten (Ujo), Rupert Hine and Alan Graham (OCL), Chris Ellis Francesco Canessa (protip.is), Joe Lubin, Zoe Keating, Jennie Fagerstrom, Karen Carne, Andy Carne, Michael Harris (and all at the guardian), Tom Panton (and all at Sonos Studio London), Simon Heyworth and Andy Miles from SuperAudioMastering.com, Chris Vatalaro, Kumar Kamalagharan, Mike Benson, Pod Blumen.

Tiny Human

Speak for Yourself

The Walk

PIGGYBACK Lyrics
I was three years old
All I wanted was the music and
My parents were doing everything they could
To move away from our place working over time always
While I sat up in my grandma's project building coloring

Ooh
Moved to a small town and 
Started to started to grow
Poetry written I’m singing and dancing
Ooh
Photographs painting cartoons 
That's all I know
That's all I know

I have one best friend to this very fucking day
Since we were five years old and I fucking moved away
I wish I never did cause she’s the only one who sees me for who I really am instead of how many I reach

Ooh 
Trusted too many fake people while I was still young
Gave them the benefit of the doubt 
I was so wrong
I cut them off and they came for blood cause they know
They ain't getting no more

I’m so done with playing piggy back Ooh
Swear to god I wished y’all all the best Ooh
You’re lying your way to try and gain a piece of me when you could never come close cause I know my destiny
I worked hard for my shit
Put my love in this shit
Now you’re trying to kill my name for some fame
What is this
tried to help you do your shit
Encouraged you to work on it
Was a good friend and you used that to your advantage

Now I’m 22 and I've had a crazy year of
Isolation from all the plastic people here 
I can not wait for the day I can finally move away back to New York city where the realest people really stay

Ooh
Spent this whole time writing away my heart and my soul
The people I surround myself with have hearts filled with gold
Love and empathy are things that we hold so close 
Trying to learn and evolve

I’m so done with playing piggy back Ooh
Swear to god I wished y’all all the best Ooh
You’re lying your way to try and gain a piece of me 
when you could never come close cause I know my destiny
I worked hard for my shit
Put my love in this shit
Now you’re trying to kill my name for some fame
What is this
Tried to help you do your shit
Encouraged you to work on it
Was a good friend and you used that to your advantage

I’m so done with playing piggy back
Ooh
Swear to god I wished y'all all the best
Ooh
You're lying your way to try and gain a piece of me 
when you could never come close cause I know my destiny

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PIGGYBACK

Poison Arrow

From Grimes' "Halfaxa" 
Arbutus Records (2010)

Halfaxa

Devon

Grimes -  Devon

Self-produced, independent, engaged, she blurs the boundaries between pure art form and creative entrepreneurship. Heap has always communicated and collaborated with her loyal following (currently she has over 2.2m twitter followers alone) both on and offline in pioneering ways. This has included fans contributing sounds, words and ideas through her inventive Listening Chair project for example or taking on a whole city in China for her song Xizi She Knows.

Her graceful tunes such as signature track Hide & Seek populate movies and TV shows, accompany dance and theatre performances and more recently, have been sampled by a whole new generation of young rappers and producers. On the more commercial end and being an 'artistąs artist', Heap has penned songs for and with Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Mika and Josh Groban among others.

Her Mimu Gloves project a cutting edge experimental gestural music ware developed initially for Imogen’s studio and stage work was premiered at TEDU Global 2011 and since has attracted worldwide interest from the New Scientist, BBC tv and radio, Wired, Dezeen, Mashable.. the list goes on. Now Heap can be found collaborating and supporting new Mimu glovers' who range from pop starlet Ariana Grande to the the leading UK charity working in music, disability and technology, Drake Music. Other technology projects have included a generative and reactive music jogging app, explorations in 3D sound with leading engineers and technologists and Arboreal Lightning, a sound and movement reactive LED tree spanning over 1.5km!

In August 2014 Imogen curated and headlined a 4 day festival of contemporary classical music with heavy leanings in technology, bursting with installations to inspire at London’s iconic Roundhouse Camden.

Heap’s albums have been nominated 4 times for Grammys winning her one for engineering, an Ivor Novello award, The Pioneer award in 2015 from the Artist and Manager awards and recently another Grammy for her contribution to Taylor Swift’s album 1989.

Imogen has now added to her roles. Mum, as her little girl Scout was born in November 2014 on her living room floor. True to form of Imogen’s creative character to draw from and experiment with whatever may be going on around her at the time, Scout is the percussionist on Tiny Human, the first song after her birth.

To release Tiny Human, Imogen started to think on how the music industry could be improved in the wake of blockchain technology and smart contracts. So in her spare time, Imogen’s been speaking and meeting up mostly about what she calls ‘Mycelia’ - A foundation from which to create, champion and maintain the ethical, technological and commercial standards required to run a fair trade music industry.

Heap has recently produced the music for the Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, theatre production. J.K Rowling's next story in the series has opened at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End, May 2016.

In 2017, you may see Imogen in a town near you as she’s planning her much awaited next World Tour!

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