And if you might like to purchase it, it is available on A Lover's Curse...
http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/a-lovers-curse

A Lover's Curse

Queen of the May

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A massive thanks to Steve Vercelloni (@steve-vercelloni) for adding some of his excellent guitar
And if you randomly want to purchase it, the album is here:
http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/a-lovers-curse

A Lover's Curse
Someone's waiting in the woodland,
drags you under,
takes you further than you've ever been before,
far beneath the forest floor.
Someone's waiting under the ivy on the altar.
If you falter you will never love again,
caught up in some eldritch wind.
You say it never ends.
but what was in your heart to mend?
Something's waiting in your psyche,
bubbling under, waging war against sleep,
falls deep for you to change.
You wait. I'll stay.
Change.
The war against sleep
it changes everything.
In the war against sleep
it changes everything.

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A Lover's Curse (feat. Steve Vercelloni on lead guitar)

And if you might like to purchase it, it is available on my first Album, called A Lover's Curse
http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/a-lovers-curse

"Fire walk with me. Dale cooper is dreaming about dwarves talking backwards to this." Tristan Narbrough

Dancing Bears ( lyrics included for Trixie Delight )
Another married man with a clandestine plan.
So tiresome and boring I can't keep from yawning
All the gold in my eyes
You think I'm a dancing bear?
You'll tell me what to wear?
Tell me what to sing and what nuance to bring?
Here's mud in your eye.
I'm not your dancing bear.
Your control-freakery puts the creeps on me.
Sly vibes aside, it's your soul I despise
And your misogyny.
You think I'm a dancing bear beneath my binary hair?
With one eye on the shot
And you think that you rock.
You're a dinosaur.
I'm not your dancing bear.


Dancing Bears

SnakeLady taken from Retro, released 11 October 2014 
https://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/retro
A collection of songs spanning the last decade and revamped

Written, performed and recorded on a Tascam4trk 2006
Artwork by Steph Sweet 

SnakeLady

SnakeLady
SnakeLady
Melusine
Melusine
Dreaming I could take you, 
Hold you, kiss you like no other.
Dreaming like I could hold you tight inside me
Melusine
Her and me
Her and me
Her and me
My eyes, blackened spires
Lacking lies
Let me lie.
Melusine
Did you want to touch her?
Did you want to kiss her baby?
Did you want to hold her?
Did you want to kiss her baby?
Melusine
SnakeLady
SnakeLady
Melusine
Melusine




Retro (lo-fi compilation)

SnakeLady

On average, two women a week in England are killed by current or former partners. I was a lucky one, I survived. I wasn’t a statistic. 
www.refuge.org.uk
https://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/track/longest-night

Longest Night
Written, peformed&recorded by Steph Sweet in England 2014

The sun never rises above the trees at this time of year
And I know that you’re hoping for snow.
To cover all the traces of where I used to go.
I dreamt of you last night
And what will I do now?
Frozen winds crack winter branches,
Sounds like dogs running through the leaves.
Then it all goes glittery and silent,
As if someone had thought of me.
I dreamt of you last night
And what will I do now?
I was always too fond of roaming alone,
Until you caught me.
And now I’m never sure, 
Always wondering who’s haunting who?
Until I see you look right through me.
On this longest of nights
On this longest of nights
The leaves, they cover me
The snow begins to fall.
First you punch my face
I cannot help but fall
You stamp on my hand
I can’t get up off the floor
Three times you punch my face
Can’t get up at all
You stamp on my hand
You say, now play that guitar
First you break my face
I cannot help but fall
The leaves, they cover me 
The snow begins to fall
The snow begins to fall
The snow begins to fall

Longest Night

Tesla and the White Bird
Written, performed, recorded&produced by Steph Sweet February 2015

There they go, watch and whisper, whisper quietly.
Whisper quietly of the frequencies of love.
The frequency of the wave determines colour.
But what determines the frequencies of love?

The strangest synchronicity of parallel reality.
A white bird and a man are heard to sing.
The strangest synchronicity of parallel reality.
A white bird and a man are heard to sing.

Resonate a Tesla whisper, ultra-violet oscillations,
Electro-magnetic love.
Thought-cameras, missing planets, radar towers,
Clouds of sound.
The frequencies of love.

The strangest synchronicity of parallel reality.
A white bird and a man are heard to sing.
Somewhere



Tesla and the White Bird

The Grail

Written, performed, recorded&produced by Steph Sweet. England. March 2015

Late sunshine in the evening, 
Dusky twilight falls again.
Feels like that funny kind of feeling,
Like falling in love again.
Falling in love again.

They say that hope springs eternal.
I used to think it was just a line,
For when you’re losing direction
And when you’re losing your mind.
Losing my mind again.

A song for the broken-hearted.
A song for the sad and for the frail.
A song for the star-crossed lovers
Still looking for the Holy Grail.
I’m still searching for the Grail.


The Grail

As a singer and novelist, I never really paid full attention to having a ‘proper’ career. I’ve always done any McJob going to make the rent, but the eighteen months I spent working in the second largest A&E in the UK has to be the most rewarding, terrifying, exhausting and bonkers work I’ve ever done. Particularly on the nightshift.
 
On The Nightshift

Written, performed and recorded by Steph Sweet in England 2015

There’s a crazy, hazy rain streaking orange on the glass,
Past the roadworks and the accident, the closed lane on the by-pass.
I didn’t sleep a wink today, I’m going to be late.
Number nineteen had the strimmer out, then tried to fix his gate.
I’m on the nightshift, ooh, I’m on the nightshift.

I corner to the barrier, but I’ve lost my I.D card,
I find it in the footwell. The security guard
Waves me in past maternity, all screams and pink balloons.
Twelve ambulance, three riot-vans, four cop-cars in the gloom.
I’m on the nightshift, ooh, I’m on the nightshift.

I’ve got care in the community in seven to fourteen
And a homicidal maniac has took a shine to me.
Two suicides and a self-harm have just been stretchered in,
While a homeless girl is crying and eating from the bin.
I’m on the nightshift, ooh, I’m on the nightshift.

Poor old soul with dementia is wandering in his pants.
Last orders in the city has brought some drunken lads.
I got crack-heads, whores and junkies all screeching in the queue,
A crash for cash, some swallowed hash , a time-waster or two.
I’m on the night-shift, ooh, I’m on the nightshift.

Please, please don’t spit at me in Accident and Emergency.
Please, please why can’t you see? 
I’m just a lowly admin clerk on the nightshift A&E.
Please, please don’t spit at me in Accident and Emergency.
Please, please why can’t you see?
I’m just a lowly admin clerk on the nightshift A&E.
I’m on the nightshift, ooh, I’m on the nightshift.



On The Nightshift

On the Nightshift

a velvet ghost
Written, performed and recorded by Steph Sweet in England May 2015
Video by Steph Sweet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO--bgnC050
from new album Unseen Air released 23rd September 2015 available here http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/track/a-velvet-ghost-2

Soon, a velvet ghost steals you away
To where the hawthorn floats.
Takes you beyond the trees,
Under the bridge and the black, Irish clouds
Out to sea.
Soon, a velvet ghost in faded blue
Goes gathers toads and stoats.
Takes you beneath the tilth.
Under the root and the horn and the hoof,
Underneath.
Soon, a velvet ghost is come for you.
To go where I cannot.
Takes you far out of reach.
Under the water to the waning moon’s daughter.
Out to sea.
A velvet ghost.
A velvet ghost.

For Kay 


Unseen Air

A Velvet Ghost

a velvet ghost

This is the title track taken from the forthcoming album.
Written, performed, recorded and produced by Steph Sweet
Happy Birthday Kay xxx

Outrider - Written, performed, recorded and produced by steph sweet in England August 2015
This track is taken from the forthcoming album " Unseen Air " due for release on 23rd September 2015 here http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/
This is the last in a triptych of songs dedicated to Kay Morley.... ride on, ride on

Outrider

Feral at seventeen, we'd stay up all night and listen to rock.
Motorbike speed queen, she rode hard and fast and tough.
The sun shines a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
The shadows lie a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
Rain falls a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
The sun shines a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
Feral at seventeen, wayward and crazy and wild.
Black and chrome dream machines, we'd leave the dirty city behind.
The sun shines a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you
Shadows lie a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
The rain falls a cerain way and I'm thinking about you.
The sun shines a certain way and I'm thinking 'bout you.
Feral at seventeen, we'd stay up all night and listen to rock.
She can't be hanging around
Outrider ride on.
She can't be hanging around
Outrider ride on, rider, ride on.....

Outrider

Rape
Holding, waiting, hoping, praying.
Those who do not hear, a mire, a morass.
A crack, a slit, a hairless abyss,
A crevice, a bloodied ravine,
Iron-claw man.
Eager forceps.
Blocking the hands,
Pushing away the mounting mass.
Methodical pincers,
Sterilised fingers,
Bending, breaking. Insatiable hands.
Fighting and shoving and clawing,
Keep breathing, keep moving.
I’m fighting and shoving, not screaming,
Breathing.
Keep moving.
I’m blocking and stopping and halting
And running. And running.
Keep running.
Skitter in silver light, barefoot and bleeding.
Hurry up the hill, keep breathing, keep breathing.
Footfall.
A van door goes slamming behind me.
Stop, freeze, go silent.
Footfall.
Van door.
Fighting and shoving and clawing,
Keep breathing, keep moving.
Breathing, I’m fighting and shoving, not screaming.
Breathing.
Keep moving.
I’m blocking and stopping and halting
And running. And running.
Keep running.
In silver light, barefoot and bleeding.
Hurry up the hill, keep breathing, keep breathing.
“ What d’you think you’re gonna do? Where d’you think you’re gonna go?
What d‘you think you‘re gonna do? Where d‘you think you’re gonna go? ”
 Fighting and shoving and clawing,
Keep breathing, keep moving.
I’m fighting and shoving, not screaming,
Breathing. 
Keep moving.
I’m blocking and stopping and halting
And running. And running.
Keep running.
Skitter in silver light, barefoot and bleeding.
Hurry up the hill.
Keep breathing.
Keep breathing.
Written, performed, recorded and mastered by Steph Sweet in July 2015 in England

Rape

Empty Chairs - performed, recorded and mastered by Lola Demo June 2016
Written by Steph Sweet April 2014 

Lola Demo is one of my fave rockstars, ultra-talented, intelligent, funny, beautiful and a little bit scary (all in the right proportions.) 
I fell on the floor when she wanted to cover a song of mine. 
I fell down again when I heard what she'd done with it....she's made it perfect!! ♥ https://soundcloud.com/lolademo https://lolademo.bandcamp.com

Empty Chairs (cover by lola demo)

Sadly, I've been away from writing music for nearly a year now, but happily published three novels with Amazon in the last six months. If you would like to wander down that particular rabbit-hole, (and read some books about sex and death) here is the link to my author's website http://stevieoconnor99.wixsite.com/writer

Wolf’s Eye
Sometimes it feels like I spend my whole life,
Like a lamb walking amongst the wolves.
But wolves have feelings that get hurt too.
I’ll swap you my wool for a wolf’s eye, a wolf’s eye, a wolf’s eye-view.
I know sometimes horrors get to you.
Gets in the bones of you.
It gets to me too.
In the bones of you.
In the bones of you.

Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen and we were all new and shiny.
Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen and it was all new and shiny.

Sometimes it feels like I’ve spent my whole life,
Like a lamb walking amongst the wolves.
But wolves have feelings that get hurt too.
I’ll swap you my wool for a wolf’s eye-view.
I know sometimes horrors get to you.
It gets to me too.
I’m always looking out for you.
In the bones of you.
In the bones of you.

Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen and we were all new and shiny.
Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen and it was all new and shiny.

Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen.
Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen.

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Steph Sweet ©2016 All Rights Reserved

The Hag and The Whore

Wolf's Eye

This is the beautiful and poignant film that inspired me to write this song. It was like I had Ellen in my head for three days..... https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ellen
Ellen is taken from The Hag and the Whore, the third album from Steph Sweet, singer-songwriter and underground musician and author. Influences of freak-folk, psychedelia and angel-punk and songs about hags and whores, paedophilia, the selfie-generation, a beautiful girl, a break-up, teepees, death and spamsters and wolves. Album art by Skinny Graphix
stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/the-hag…e-whore-album

Ellen.
Ellen, she’s at the changeling age, only fourteen.
Her Mum’s lived inside a bottle, since she had her at fifteen.
There’s drinking ‘round the house most days.
Let the men in. Let the men in.
Her Mum just wants to dance with them.
Her Mum just wants to dance with them.
It’s like they’re factory-farming humans just to boost the GDP.
There’s no way out for the working classes, no jobs and no money.
Ellen’s lonely and she’s hurting, hurting so bad inside her head.
She lashes out at everything.
Ellen wishes she were dead.
She’s difficult and mouthy.
Doesn’t make a good poster-girl for the BBC.
And everybody turns their head.
Ellen is the girl that they don’t want to see.
And everybody turns their head.
They don’t want to see.

He’s older and she thinks she loves him, he gives her tenners, vodka and speed.
A plastic bead of kindness in a vacuum looks like a diamond ring.
Who's going to help Ellen?
Nobody.
Who's going to help Ellen?
Nobody.
There’s a million girls like Ellen in all the big cities.
Too difficult and mouthy to be poster-girls on tv.
It’s like they’re factory farming humans just to boost the GDP.
No vegetables unless they’re frozen, crisp sandwiches for tea.
Ellen’s lonely and she’s hurting, hurting bad inside her head.
She lashes out at everyone.
Ellen wishes she were dead.
Who’s helping Ellen?
Nobody.
Who’s helping Ellen?
Nobody.
Nobody.
Nobody.
©Steph Sweet September 2016 All Rights Reserved

The Hag and the Whore

Ellen

The Hag and the Whore is the third album from Steph Sweet, singer-songwriter and underground musician and author. Influences of freak-folk, psychedelia and angel-punk and songs about hags and whores, paedophilia, the selfie-generation, a beautiful girl, a break-up, teepees, death and spamsters and wolves. Album art by Skinny Graphix
http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/the-hag-and-the-whore-album

The Hag and The Whore

When she was a maid she danced so fine, as if her feet were feathers.
Enchanting all with her big, blue eyes and lips that hint of pleasure.
She fell in love with the Blacksmith’s son, who promised her a plenty.
But his words were lies and she was too poor and so he promptly left her.
No maidenhead to call her own, she fled to the big city.
The Bristol streets were paved with gold for one who was so pretty.
A one-eyed crab, with greying hair, sold her to the whore-house.
To earn her keep, with her waving feet, as timid as a dormouse.
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
For years they queued up round the square, to visit such a beauty.
Her shining hair and her silken silk, she meekly did her duty.
The older whores told her, “Save your gold, for nothing lasts forever.
A woman’s looks will flake and fade like bedposts in bad weather.”
Save your gold girls, save your gold.
Save your gold girls, save your gold.
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
She did not mind the passing time, her wrinkled loss of glamour.
She never liked all the eager eyes and yelps and whoops and clamour.
No more to bare her withered dugs to any that would lick them.
No more the whore, the happy hag went home rich to her brethren.
Save your gold girls, oh save your gold.
Save your gold girls, oh save your gold.
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
Save your gold girls, save your gold!

©Steph Sweet 2016 All Rights Reserved

The Hag And The Whore

Your Grave ©Steph Sweet November 2016 All Rights Reserved
Taken from the new album, The Hag and the Whore http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/the-hag-and-the-whore-album

Your Grave

taken from The Hag and the Whore 2016 
https://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/track/cutting-the-ropes
Cutting The Ropes
Always been there, always for you.
No matter what life’s been throwing at you.
I always saw through all of your lies,
I didn’t want to believe it was true.
Look at me now, cutting the ropes.
I’m brave enough, I can stand up to you.
Look at me now.
I’m leaving you.
Cutting the ropes and now we’re through. 
Now we’re through.
Now we’re through.
You’ve been freezing me out, putting me down.
Slagging me off all around town.
I’m being brave, I’m getting away.
I’m getting away from the malice of you.
I’m cutting the ropes. I’m breaking free
Taking a leap into the big blue sea.
No more of your spitefulness to me.
Your patented Piscean cruelty.
I’m breaking free.
I’m breaking free.
You’ve been freezing me out, putting me down.
Slagging me off all around town.
I’m being brave, I’m getting away.
I’m getting away from the malice of you.
I’m cutting the ropes. I’m breaking free.
Taking a leap into the big blue sea.
No more of your spitefulness to me.
Your patented Piscean cruelty.
Cutting the ropes.
Cutting the ropes, getting away from you.
Cutting the ropes, I’m getting away from you.
Cutting the ropes, getting away from you.
Getting away, getting away, getting away.

©Steph Sweet 2016 All Rights Reserved

Cutting The Ropes

Hallo, I forgot to post this one from the last album...doh!♥ 
(ps. new vinyl album is out on US Label ' Gold Dragon Records' later this year! xx)

Glitterati.
Revolving around yourself, like you’re the centre of the sun.
Offering up a bitter smile, as you sneer at everyone.
Are you ugly on the inside, or is it just the outside that’s broke?
Be careful in those London fumes in case you start to choke.

Glitterati.
You so want to be in the Glitterati.
You’re so damn needy.

You’re so desperate to be famous, you’d surely sell your soul.
Do you dream of fame and riches and pretty cocaine whores?
Are those dreams slowly fading?
Is the self-doubt creeping in?
Your narcissistic patina is slowly wearing thin.
Are you emasculated by girls who play better than you?
You're prowling clouds and stealing sounds, as if nobody would know?
All I can see is ego, in your small, unhappy eyes.
If plagiarism was a sin, then you’d be doing time.
Glitterati.
You so want to be in the Glitterati.
You’re so damn needy.
Glitterati.
Glitterati.
Glitterati.

Glitterati. ©Steph Sweet 2016 All Rights Reserved
credits
Steph Sweet: Vocal, backing vocals, acoustic guitars, lead and rhythm guitars, bass, farfisa, piano, percussion, drums, mixing and master.
from The Hag and the Whore (album), released September 23, 2016

Tha Hag and The Whore

Glitterati

I was so happy to get to work with excellent lofi musician Marco Abba (again) and good fun working on this song :) per tutto grazie mille amico mio!
https://soundcloud.com/drunkeninstrument
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1iKlg7xZFLyoRD7NoKgdUH
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqucPWCyd4s&list=OLAK5uy_moglgscMUMpYphhCIMfe1vHL7prbS6ZSE
Marco Abba: bass, mellotron, cello, bongos and backing vocals
steph sweet: vocals, guitars, drums, keyboards, mix

These Butterfly Collectors (feat.drunkeninstrumentcorporation)

Magnificent Life video here https://youtu.be/D4BVdcZz2b8

Taken from forthcoming album Observation Ward, due for release 2019
Photograph by Steph Sweet
Written, performed, engineered and mixed by Steph Sweet (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums, bass, glockenspiel)
Magnificent Life

In the air, this golden cathedral,
Magnificent life.
Reverberation in harmonies,
Like you’re hanging on a star that can take you anywhere.
But if you refute your future,
Or refuse to be,
Then a fool and a beggar be waiting on you.
Do you think we could unplug the lies?
Shimmy into ultra-mind and make it all just disappear.
All the ego, all the i and woe,
All those psychic vampires that you know,
They all just disappear. 
They simply disappear.
Tilt my face, feels like I’m treading water.
I know all the moves, heard all the lines before.
Inconsequential theologies,
When you’re hanging on a star that can take you anywhere.
Do you think we could unplug the lies?
Shimmy into ultra-mind and make it all just disappear.
All the ego, all the i and woe,
All those psychic vampires that you know,
They all just disappear.
They simply disappear.

Magnificent Life ©steph sweet 2018 All Rights Reserved

Observation Ward

Magnificent LIfe

Magnificent Life ( click for video link )

So Not Scared Of You by steph sweet and drunkeninstrumentcorporation
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qde2CCDDtU&feature=youtu.be

Marco Abba: Vocals, bass, ebow
Steph Sweet: Vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, organ, percussion and midi

A million thankyous to my friend Marco Abba for working with me on this track, he always adds such a perfect magic touch!
Ciao Marco, grazie dal mio cuore, mio ​​caro amico!

I wrote this song about a woman and her family ( who I've never met ) who body-shamed me on the internet for being fat. 

So Not Scared Of You 

You rip up your friends and enemies
When they don’t pander to all your needs.
I met a hundred mean girls like you
Grinding your gears ‘cos she’s got better shoes than you.
I’m so not scared of you.
Just what you gonna do?
I’m so not scared of you.
I am just so not scared of you
Yeah. 
And really?
Just what you gonna do?
Stand on a chair so you can look me in the eye?
Careful of these wars you start,
That I will finish with fire.
I’m so not scared of you.
Just what you gonna do?
I’m so not scared of you.
Unless you can come up with some curses that I’ve never heard,
Say some more nasty words and give your mouth a rest girl.

©Steph Sweet All Rights Reserved

So Not Scared Of You

iTunes

So Not Scared Of You - Steph Sweet (feat DrunkenInstrumentCorporation)

All The Things VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW0-PbJdeEA&feature=youtu.be 
Observation Ward - new album out now from all the usual suspects, or listen for free here at my new website www.stephsweet.co.uk
Am very happy to see the first reviews coming out, this one from the cool and fuzz loving Popocculture
"Steph Sweet has brought an interesting and new sound to this area.
With powerful vocals, and swirly and crunchy guitar riffs that wouldn’t sound out of place in a late 90’s britpop, yet grounded somewhere more in the early 80’s. “All The Things” is dark, broody, a little strange, but also interestingly an ear worm that will grab you and not let go." Popocculture 17th May 2019

written, performed, recorded and mixed by Steph Sweet 
All The Things ©steph sweet 2019 All Rights Reserved
 
All The Things

Saw you yesterday, at the funeral, in our widow’s weeds
Decades bleed away, fresh cut scarring for my idiot seam

All the things that we have been
All the things that I have broken
All the times I tried to change
Choking in your cold, cold silence

It’s too brutal, finding it hard to breathe
Glass spiderwebs crashing over me
It’s too brutal, finding it hard to breathe
Glass spiderwebs, crashing, crashing, crashing over me

All the things that we have been
All the things that I have broken
All the times I tried to change
Choking in your cold, cold silence

It’s too brutal, finding it hard to breathe
Glass spiderwebs crashing over me
Cracks appear inside my heart
All the screaming in my head
Never good enough for you
Except for all those years in bed

And I don’t even know where I’m supposed to go

All the things that we have been
All the things that I have broken
Choking on all your little lies that went unspoken
Choking on all your little lies that went unspoken
Choking on all your little lies that went unspoken

And I don’t even know where I’m supposed to go
Don’t even know

All The Things ©steph sweet 2019 All Rights Reserved

All The Things

All The Things (click for video)

This is a new one from Observation Ward, out now! 
freestream www.stephsweet.co.uk
He Told You Twice

Love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out
Oh love, love’s not meant to hurt you bad
Bruising inside out
Oh love, love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out

You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again
You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be 
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again

His tears won’t heal the wounds
Washing over bruises that he gives to you
His tears won’t heal the wounds
Washing over bruises that he gives to you

Oh love, love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out
Oh love, love’s not meant to hurt you bad
Bruising inside out

You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again
You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again

His tears won’t heal the wounds
Washing over bruises that he gives to you

Oh love, love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out

He Told You Twice ©steph sweet 2019 All Rights Reserved

He Told You Twice

VIDEO LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBwMeQG1K2w

Not Your Pussy

Post-post feminist
Full time work and chores and dishes
Pro-bionic modern woman
Stretched so thin in sticky prisons
Post-post feminist sisters
Gym and gin and running blisters
Festivals and lost Vegas witches
Self-harm scars and post-op stitches

Stretched too thin
Stretched too thin
Stretched too thin
Stretched too thin

Post-post feminist
I get to work and wash all the dishes
Mustn’t forget to shave my fanny
If there’s a hair then maybe he won’t like me
Post-post feminist
I get to work and wash all the dishes
I mustn't forget to shave my fanny
If there's a hair then maybe he won't like me

Maybe he won’t like me
Maybe he won't like me
Maybe he won't like me
Maybe he won't like me

It’s not yours
It’s mine
It’s not yours
It’s mine
It's not yours
It's mine
It's not yours

Post-post feminist
I get to work and wash all the dishes
Mustn’t forget to shave my fanny
If there’s a hair then maybe he won’t like me

It's not yours 
It's mine
It’s not yours
It’s mine
It’s not yours
It’s mine
It's not yours
It's mine

Not Your Pussy© steph sweet 2019 All Rights Reserved

Not Your Pussy

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Berlin Heel by Steph Sweet
Video Link https://youtu.be/qcWsjexxPwk
I wrote and recorded this a month ago, just a throwaway, superfuzzy, trashy indie pop song. And so much has happened since...
But we can still dance, yeah? xx

Berlin Heel

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Happy Solstice! xx

Feverfew by Steph Sweet

Free your mind, slip through time
Anaesthetise your own disaster
Step outside the pretty lies
Refute the slave, become the Master

You’re not really sure
You’d like to let it all go
You say you want something pure
You wanna let it all go, go, go

Hidden light of Judas eye
Anaesthetise your happy ever after
Turn the tide, the endless lies 
Will only ever bring you disaster

You’re not really sure
You’d like to let it all go
You say you want something pure
You wanna let it all go, go , go

Feverfew, feverfew, feverfew
Feverfew, feverfew, feverfew

Feverfew ©Steph Sweet May2020 All Rights Reserved

Feverfew

Apple

There's always one, a restless kind of stranger, 
mooching around with a glittery smile. 
A sweet-tooth mind getting brighter, 
starry saints in a line. 
But he won't hurt you, no he won't, 
he believes he can taste what he hears, 
he can taste what he sees. 
They've been getting out on their own again, 
in their bedsheets, pretending to be owls. 
Mud and moonlight and chasing bird-shaped wraiths through the grounds. 
But they won't hurt you, no they won't, 
they believe they can taste what they hear, 
they can taste what they see. 
Some see number-lines out through infinity. 
Some have ticker-tape run through their eyes. 
It's a strange evolution. 
They're not the ones getting  left behind.

Retro (lofi compilation)

Synaesthesia

Kinda forgot to post this at the time, one of my own personal acoustic faves...(I hadn't played a flute since I was at school!)

Observation Ward

On the Observation Ward, trailing pipes and lines
On the Observation Ward, lonely, scared and wired

Where are all my electric friends
Flares that disappear across the sun
Fizzle into nothingness, the almost inaudible hum
They never turn the lights off in here
There’s locks and bolts that you can’t see

On the Observation Ward, trailing pipes and lines
On the Observation Ward, lonely, scared and tired
On the Observation Ward, trailing pipes and lines
On the Observation Ward, lonely, scared and wired

Look into the bright psychiatrist’s eye
Artfully lie and pretend to comply
Sweet jesus please, get me out of here
Or at least let me look at the sky
Or at least let me look at the sky
Or at least let me look at the sky

On the Observation Ward, trailing pipes and lines
On the Observation Ward, old and cut and tired

Observation Ward ©steph sweet 2019 All Rights Reserved.

Happy Winter Solstice! xx
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Zx3clsPfc

Breathe.
Don’t you know when the river’s out
It’s not a place you want to be around, oh no
Close your eyes so you cannot see
It’s not a place where you want to be right now
Things have been rough on you
Things have been rough on you
I know
Things been bad for me too
Things been bad for me too
Oh I know

Liars and thieves and treacheries
Counter-intuitive conspiracies
Oh I know
Sinking ships with this broken glass
‘Cos baby don’t you know nothing evers gonna last
Oh I know
Things have been rough on you
Things have been rough on you
Oh I know
Things been bad for me too
Things been bad for me too
Oh I know

Breathe darling
Don’t let go
Breathe darling 
Don’t let go

Breathe ©steph sweet 2020 All Rights Reserved

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"British singer-songwriter Steph Sweet freely admits she’s a “refined taste” but it’s difficult to not be intrigued by her feisty, often contentious approach to pyschy acoustic indie-rock meets punk brand of music."

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"Steph Sweet has brought an interesting and new sound to this area.
With powerful vocals, and swirlly and crunchy guitar riffs that wouldn’t sound out of place in a late 90’s britpop, yet grounded somewhere more in the early 80’s. “All The Things” is dark, broody, a little strange, but also interestingly an ear worm that will grab you and not let go." 

" If the Bronte sisters formed a freak folk band then it'd probably sound something like this." 
Paul Kerr - The Devil Has The Best Tuna

" Placed somewhere between Devandra Banhart and Joanna Newsome, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist  -  vocals, guitars, drums, keyboards  -   combines a talent for bewitching songwriting, with a dreamy, lo-fi alt-gaze delivery."
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