For The Widows In Paradise... (Sufjan Stevens cover)

Heartbeats (The Knife/José Gonzáles cover)

Stay With Me (Sam Smith cover)

the opposite of a love letter (i am choosing to remember why i loved you, even though i haven't for a long time and the end was a flood)
lyrics:

this castle's coming down and i am buried 
under all the words you wrote to me
it was built to last but i can see that we left cracks 
amongst the mortared stone and the garden groves

now i'm quarantined in my bedroom
i can see you through the windowpane
and you're a shining example of the ways
i loved and i will love til i decay

i hear i woke up screaming 
but i don't remember anything i said
cause in that long dark winter 
i spent most of my days thinking i was dead
wishing i'd get better, but mostly wishing i was in your bed

now i'm quarantined on this island
i can see you through the windowpane
and you're a shining example of the ways
i loved and i will love til i decay

you're nothing but a ghost now, 
but i heard somewhere ghosts can feel things, too
so i tied myself together 
with packing string and cemetery views
you lost yourself one morning, 
but i know that for a while it was true
i choose to remember the way 
you held me in the blue lagoon
oh i'll choose to remember the ways 
that you loved me and i loved you 

Castles (original)

Tenerife Sea (Ed Sheeran cover)

Outside of Space and Time (David Byrne & St. Vincent cover)

this is all banjo and voice, distortion done with electronic filters and overlapping tracks

Waterlines (banjo demo)

this recording is from 2013 but hey, let's give it a go

rgtm

Loretta (Townes Van Zandt cover)

desert 1975 (a terrible experiment)

a few hours ago brianne and i were joking about what sufjan's 50 states project would look like for her home state of massachusetts, and wrote this song about the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist. (one of the most significant paintings stolen was Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, his only seascape.) anyway--recorded on my iphone, don't the mind radiator and street noise.~~~enjoy~~~

lyrics:
after the st. patrick’s day parade
the morning of march 18 1990
they tied up all the guards
and they walked out with the art
did you let them in?

tell me are they ashes in the fire
tell me are the buried in the ground
did they cross the sea like the Son on galilee 
or did you set them down 

tell me are they in a living room
hanging for some children to admire
when Rembrandt smiles down,
do the kids all crowd around
knowing that their father is a liar

did you let them in?

did you let them in?
did you do it for the money or for love
did you do it for the fame
even if no one knows your name
did you let them in?

nothing left of gospels but the frames
but if nothing can be changed, what could be done?
no disciples to wake him, just ten million dollars
so Jesus stays silent on this one

did you let them in?
why do we let them in?

where does it go when it’s gone
if nobody knows where it’s gone
there’s a bounty on their heads
but can they ever be dead
if in mystery alone they live on

On The Morning Of March 18, 1990 (for The Storm on The Sea Of Galilee, after Sufjan Stevens)

i'm rachel and i like americana & interesting sounds... i write music but it's secret so have these songs other people made up (except for a few).


