bigger than the whole sky (taylor swift cover)

can we be held to our subconscious 
or to anything at all
i always say happy birthday
even though you don't respond

it's all that i can think to do,
with all this fractured space and time
can't understand 
this senseless loss, whether
to synapse or fault

you fell through ice that night,
and you never told your mom
fell through the ice that night
it's almost like you're really gone

happy birthday

bathwater

ok hollywood
don't know how to say this,
but you got me, you got me good

ok hollywood
i guess i could have guessed,
you'd treat me like they said you would

ok, settle down
you never said you were mine
except for when we're messing around

ok, it's all good
you don't have to listen 
to what I sent,
I knew you wouldn't

fuck all the casmere and benz
and your celebrity friends
might have the thickest wallet here,
but your love is paper thin

ok hollywood [demo]

*at the time I wrote this song in November of 2023, the death toll was far lower. at the time of upload it is estimated to be ten times this amount. help families enduring this ongoing g*cide here: https://linktr.ee/opolivebranch


ten thousand dead in palestine
i know this isn't the first time
we've had our eyes peeled open from the deadly sleep we've been in

writing on the wall is saying
we don't have much time
can you even dream a half a dream?
what would it take to see

earth in all her beauty
every living thing free
every caged bird has room to fly
and we'll plant a garden come springtime
no kid has to look up at the sky
and wonder if it will be their last time

a mother drags her boys behind her
in car seats, a stark reminder
that none of us are free
'til all of us are free

gotta get to work early
gotta fund the war machine
gotta keep the burnt reciepts, 
it's time to dream a new dream

earth in all her beauty 
every living thing free
all the caged birds have room to fly
and we'll plant a garden come spring time
whoever said there's not enough lied
it's time, it's time

room to fly [voice memo]

i'd drive an hour after school
to see you and pick up your brother
cause no one gets me like you do

the alcoholics think 
we need to spend less time at church camp
but we loved to pray
holding hands

bloom 
the flowers open for you

she fell asleep on the blanket
on the beach,
while we were praying
for anthony kiedis
that he might one day find god
i used to wonder where the line
between our love begins and ends
but it doesn't, it's outside of time

bloom 
the flowers open for you

how do you draw that line
so perfectly on your eyelid?
how do we close the gap
from your parents house to rhode island?

bloom [voice memo]

i, i'm addicted to fires
so when they're not around
light a match on my own solid ground

the truth, 
something inside me is aching
the burn in the flames
of my own martyred heart
for the sake of the game

i'm gonna complicate it 
don't look now

let's pretend you want to know me

and i know it takes 
a lot of time to break
all the habits that are making me
do all these crazy things
but i gotta say, 
feels so good this way
til it all comes crashing
can't go softly, 
burn it to the ground

i'm gonna complicate it
don't look now

let's pretend you want to know me

//
thank you/production help in abelton from MIKARU 2023

fires [demo]

citrus trees [demo]

break up with your boyfriend [demo]

earthquake [voice memo]

what a time [voice memo]

embodied perspective of a tree
featuring an orange-crowned warbler and other california native critters and sounds 

to be tree

what r u waiting 4

voice memos and rough demos
<3
1/2 of NGHTSWM

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