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Work It Out

You'll Be Forgiven

I'm Spent

Life gets complicated when you're trying to juggle careers, responsibilities and relationships. That's a key takeaway from Madeline Finn's unflinching, Americana-influenced "Asleep in the Driveway," a song whose easygoing tempo masks turbulent lyrics about the disconnect between expectations and reality: "Now, I know I made a promise/Baby, let's be honest/You're still waking up alone." That scenario understandably causes more questions than resolutions ("Is this what you asked me for?/Is that what you wanted?") along with no shortage of self-doubt and intense soul-searching. 

"This song came from a phone call with my wife (then fiancée) about being overwhelmed with emotion surrounding budgets and finances while I was on the road touring," Finn says. "This sparked a reflection into the things that make us feel like subpar partners. 'Asleep in the Driveway' is a look into the insidious transactional element that creeps into so many of our relationships."

Asleep in the Driveway

LYRICS

I should be more motivated 
This isn’t how good stories are created
Maybe I’m lazy
I should be more concentrated 
Feel the fire burning to make it
Maybe I’m lazy
Or maybe it’s

Three recessions in thirty years
A handheld newscycle full of fear 
Maybe I’m just diluted by trauma 
From living in an endless apocalyptic drama

Try to think of life somewhere secluded 
Why does that goal feel so deluded 
Maybe I’m lazy
I don’t  have the emotional energy
To think of my own self so tenderly 
Maybe I’m lazy
Or maybe it’s 

Three recessions in thirty years
A handheld newscycle full of fear 
Maybe I’m just diluted by trauma 
From living in an endless apocalyptic drama
The rich burning our planet to ashes
Our own lives dictated by fascists
How could I be feeling any calmer
I’m living in an endless apocalyptic drama

The spark left my eyes
Once the gaping divide was lost
On the horizon 

Maybe I’m lazy
Heck if you say so
Maybe I’m lazy
Or maybe it’s 

Three recessions in thirty years
A handheld newscycle full of fear 
Maybe I’m just diluted by trauma 
From living in an endless apocalyptic drama
The rich burning our planet to ashes
Our own lives dictated by fascists
How could I be feeling any calmer
I’m living in an endless apocalyptic drama

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alive and well

A new single and off Mira Cook's forthcoming new album, titled "Lashes to Lashes", due out later this summer.

Pre-order the limited edition 12" here:
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mira-cook-lashes-to-lashes-12

Lashes To Lashes

Stay Close

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[Lyrics]

Rare camphor pen
And you asleep in your shawl
And you say that I'm dead while you're walkin'

Dew to hide
The blue tide
In your day I'm high
In your day

Worked till we combined
There was you
Till we combined, there was you
Till we combined, there was you
You under me

Why'd you follow?
Why do you follow?
Why do you follow?
Why'd you follow?

There be increase your way away
And I can't see a clear way away
Search can steal you
Fly away, yeah
I can feel you fly away

Lyric Video: https://youtu.be/yPM6euOyfCY?si=-oAePxoPys5BqR4d

Song review: "A sprawling, heart-on-sleeve anthem that captures the precise moment a shared world dissolves. The lyrics trace the haunting paradox of intimacy: feeling like a ghost in someone’s life (“you say that I’m dead while you’re walkin’”) while still being utterly defined by their presence (“In your day I’m high”). The song builds to a breathtaking, repetitive climax—“Till we combined, there was you”—that feels less like a memory and more like a ritual incantation, desperately trying to summon a lost connection before surrendering to the ache of its absence. A masterpiece of second-wave melancholy, full of dynamic tension and raw, melodic yearning."

The End Times - In Your Day (Moon Cat EP, 1995)

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I'm A outlaw written by Phillip Thomas

Ein persönlicher Song über Kraft und Kampf bei Problemen. Es beschreibt, dass sich der Kampf um sich selbst immer lohnt, auch wenn der Weg schwer ist: 
Denn hinter jeder Tür die man öffnet, wird die Dunkelheit ein Stück heller.

Text by FelZen:

Verse 1: 
Ich hab gekämpft, so viele Jahre,
gegen Mauern aus Angst und Schein.
Hab mir Welten gebaut aus Lügen,
nur um irgendwie stark zu sein.
Doch irgendwann bricht jedes Kartenhaus,
und du stehst da, mitten im Staub.
Und du merkst, all die Jahre,
hast du nur gegen dich selbst geglaubt.

Verse 2:
Ich hab gelernt, mich auszuhalten,
auch wenn’s brennt, wenn’s leise schreit.
Manchmal ist der größte Schritt im Leben,
nur stehen zu bleiben – und Zeit.
Akzeptanz ist kein Verlier’n,
sie ist das Ende vom Versteck.
Der Punkt, an dem du aufhörst zu fliehen
und dich selbst zum ersten Mal entdeckst.

Refrain 1:
Tür um Tür, ich finde Schlüssel,
die ich nie zu kennen glaubte.
Hinter jeder flackert Licht,
wo vorher Dunkelheit nur war.
Es blendet, doch ich bleib nicht stehen,
ich will fühlen, ich will seh’n.
Denn das Leben ist kein Gegner –
es will, dass wir besteh’n.

Verse 3:
Der Weg frisst Kraft, nimmt Stück für Stück,
das Alte fällt, macht Platz für Glück.
Er bricht, was du geglaubt hast zu sein,
doch was bleibt, ist echt – und rein.
Das Neue flackert, zart und klein,
kein Feuer, nur ein Schimmer Schein.
Doch manchmal reicht genau das Licht,
damit du dich selbst wieder siehst.

Bridge:
Ich hab verloren, was mich hielt,
und doch – ich hab mich selbst gefühlt.
All der Schmerz, die ganze Zeit,
war vielleicht nur Ehrlichkeit.
Denn wer durch Dunkelheiten geht,
versteht, was Hoffnung wirklich heißt.
Kein Wort, kein Traum, kein leeres Ziel –
nur Leben, das dich wieder heilt.

Pre-Vers:
Narben schließen sich, sie verblassen,
man blutet nicht mehr aus.
Doch tief im Innern bleibt ein Teil,
ein stiller Zeuge, ohne Applaus.
Lern ihn zu sehen – nicht zu fliehn,
lass ihn reden, aber nicht regiern.
Denn irgendwann verstehst du dann:
Du bist dein eigener Steuermann.

Refrain 2:
Tür um Tür, und hinter jeder
wird der Raum ein Stück mehr hell.
Ich halt nicht fest, ich geh nur weiter,
und langsam atmet die Welt.
Es lohnt sich, diesen Kampf zu führ’n,
auch wenn er Narben hinterlässt.
Denn die letzte Tür – sie trägt dein Herz,
und dahinter:
Licht.
Liebe.
Und den Rest.


Licht

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