Composed and performed by: Elizabeth Onstwedder, Spencer Woody, and Julian Xie; featuring Maryann Verghese on vocals

Recording, mixing, and mastering: Eli Cole, Julian Jacobson, Laura Valk, Julian Xie
Artwork: Shaina Gong and AJ Reyes

If you sail around the earth,
Roaming for rebirth,
Your maps, they’ll collapse,
Strand you wandering round for laps.

And they’ll cross you at the crossroads,
Hang you from the clouds,
They’ll twist our thoughts to fists,
But you play with words like fire in mist.

Out of sight, but never out of mind,
Out of time, time I can’t rewind,
Into the frame, I follow your call,
Into your open arms I fall.

And a second start is what I need,
An open heart cannot bleed,
You paint the pain, the watercolour cries,
As you summarize the sunrise.

Up on the rooftops we went,
Everything I said, I meant,
But they bend the truth across the waves,
So you bend the light onto the staves.

Out of sight, but never out of mind,
Out of time, time I can’t rewind,
You’ll make the mark, oh polarize light,
Lift off this blindfold, return my eyes.

[Far away is far enough,
Fire away we’ll call your bluff,
I’ll send you off my love,
You’ll make the mark, mark my words.]

Temptation tries to spin my wheel,
But you’re turning my fortune, your word is my keel,
Steering me away, back to the Bay.

You draw the colours I’d never seen,
You shoot the stars, and I’ll shoot the screen,
To capture this moment in my memory,
So we lift off where we left off.
You’ll make the mark, mark my words.
You’ll make the mark, mark my words.

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New stuff in the works! Here's a piano-instrumental of a new song, Rain of Leaves. It's a bit boring sounding now but it'll get better! (inspired by Reign of Love by Coldplay)

"Fall, let it fall on me."

Rain of Leaves (Piano)

Check out the music video here: youtu.be/75F6lPN4v8g 

[Take your time]

Everything is still, still in motion,
I’m the teardrop frozen up in the swirling ocean,
Men in black and white molding my mind, telling me to make decisions,
But in a given landscape everybody changes position.

Forgetting all the words, falling in the woods,
making no sound as the trees come down.
Running out of room to get up and running,
on the cold ground exposing my wounds.
Lungs are automatic,
but I need you to see the swells, the swells,
The rise and fall of my chest
as you take away my breath.

[Take your time]
Still life, still in love with you,
Still life, still a lifeless portrait of you,
Staring me down in my mind’s eye when I try,
To get up and running, but I need more time.

I walk with the cars in the dead of night,
a broken moth feeding on sound instead of light
In a war with my thoughts, I hit the wall,
they say you gotta move to move on,
Curse the blinking cursor turning a blind eye,
looking for the doubts that I can’t put down,
I'm still stuck here with my wishes
scattered by the velvet sun.

Still life, still in love with you,
Still alive, but I’m still dying to say,
One day I’ll stop counting the days and be okay,
I’ll be up and running but I need more time.


Still Life

https://www.facebook.com/Racemates
http://racemates.bandcamp.com/
Stereochemistry quartet composed of Ruici Ong, Elizabeth Onstwedder, Adhar Maheshwari, and Julian Xie. 

Elizabeth: bass, drums, keyboard, vocals
Ruici: bass, keyboard, percussion, vocals
Adhar: lead guitar, vocals
Julian: rhythm guitar, keyboard, kick drum, vocals
Contact us at racemates@gmail.com 


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