another demo for yo ears

recorded in two bedrooms (thanks James!)

Limerence // demo

Single II from the upcoming album DUM SPIRO SPERO (JULY 14TH '17)

released June 16, 2017

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Elsa Hewitt.
Mastered by Kirk Barley.

lyrics:
no awareness of your weirdness
no awareness of your wellness
things you learn the hard way
they can never be unlearnt
worship only the sun
until your sunburnt
i'm trying not to be rigid
and understand we are all different
we struggle with this resistance
to just accept the other
feeling this anxious angle
making my insides mangle
but hope springs eternal
but there is hope re-emerging
re-emerging
© ERH 2017 ℗ ERH 2017

TANTRUM

6.46 Red Rocking Chair

his is the first song by us ! exciting :)

I wrote the words for this song in september 2019 , I was going thru a bit of a weird time and feeling quite detached from reality . I think the song is about feeling like youre floating through the world , like everything’s falling apart around you in so many ways and you keep getting up and going to work and just feeling like…. Wow being alive sure is somethin isn’t it !
The words aim to capture that period in time , there were quite a few protests , and I remembered really vividly one where a bunch of us got cornered in by fascists and cops and just looking at it all happening and feeling like it was so real and so far away all at the same time , I remember walking around a park afterwards and feeling really struck by the beauty of the sun and the trees and feeling so much realer than I had in a while
Its kind of about drifting through different levels of connection with the world around you. This constantly developing understanding of what’s real , where sometimes it feels like nothings really there , and sometimes it feels like you’re so intensely a part of everything

lyrics:

The change of pressure as you close the door 
sucks the curtain through the open window 
there is so much of today left and nothing i can do 

Emulating a potential future
i feel it coming though it might not happen 
i'm a pretty passive person but i dont know if that can last 

It's a bright and beautiful morning 
no longer waterlogged or stuck 
Now i keep on walking though i've tried to stop
if i'm looking for trouble then that must be what i want 

The itch is over but i keep on scratching
more out of habit than a real reaction 
We killed the queen, the army fell, i never had to hold a gun 

The hours are empty but they keep you captive
Tell all your children to go play in traffic 
A cordon of clueless cops standing still 

It's a bright and beautiful morning 
no longer waterlogged or stuck 
Now i keep on walking though i've tried to stop
if i'm looking for trouble then that must be what i want 

Vague distraction that has kept me so confused
complete distrust in what I can't choose not to do 
Did it fall from a clear blue sky?
I think i know what happened but i can't prove that i'm right

6.46

Laoise FitzGerald