Cover of Someone You'd Admire by Fleet Foxes

This was the first song I wrote from Ethan's poetry, used for a school project last year. It was my first time using Logic, my baby, so listen with caution. :)

To Blow Like Dust

This is an actual, real life sonnet (3 quatrains and a couplet, iambic pentameter, alllllll dat bizniss) that Ethan wrote in Astronomy class last year and now it's a song so yeah it's cool and stuff.

Sonnet 212

This will be the first song on the concept album we're working on, Orion Over the Lake. Enjoy!

(Orion rise in the east
Come over the Lake
Tower of suns gazing back
Show me the light)

You open eyes of sage
As honey smile shapes
The lines around your face
Cut through fields of outer space

We lie here looking up
From our fortress of down
By the city waterfront
Staring everywhere at once.

I know I'd only met you when I held your hand
And the weekend had barely begun
But I feel like we were flames when it all began
And the first atom sparked in the sun.

We watched fiery spin of stars in unison
Above the silent lake reflecting in it's wake

(Chorus)

I know I'll take you with me
When I leave this world for good
I'll fly away with you

Orion Over The Lake

This song is entirely a cappella, recorded on my iPhone while I was in the jungle of Costa Rica! Hope you enjoy the raw authenticity. ;) It will also be the third song on the concept album!

We sat in the shrine of a primal mountain
Surrounded by a wood like a breathing cocoon
Before us lay the lake, a primordial fountain
That shimmered with the stars on a night with no moon

The constellation on your face was beaming over me
A freckle-painted figure, as near as far away
You held the steaming turtle shell of pure reality
We drank the tea of light and our minds became as day

Maya mine, maya mine, maya mine
Come with me through all of time
I am half, you are half, we are whole
Meant to be, soul to soul
Written there in the stars, our endless rime
Maya mine, oh maya mine

A wind blew through my touseled hair, a brushing touch of air
I heard its breathy whisper spoken in a sigh
The trees all answered softly stirring with an ancient prayer
Their choral leaflets shuffling to exhale a hushed reply

We looked to see of what they spoke in cryptic tounges of green
And opening our eyes was like awaking from a dream
The brilliance of spacious sky was gleaming as it spun
The flames of those ten thousand suns all dancing as if one

Oxuitza (iPhone Version)

I wrote this during my overnight flight between Costa Rica and Uruguay, looking out above the clouds and at dem stars. Enjoy!

Dear Sky, I can see you smiling
The colors climb to paint the night away
Dear Sky, I can feel your warmth, love
You hold the sun that brings along the day

Dear Sky, light intensified 
The clouds and colors blaze an astral poem
Dear Sky, I can see you night fall
The curtain drops beneath your spinning dome

And just like a satellite
I am spinning through the night
Orbiting your light forever
Eyes wide shut I'll dream of endless sky

Dear Sky, I read your ancient stories
Among the stars I come back to my own
Dear Sky, thanks for leaving the lights on
When I look up I always know I'm home

And just like a satellite
I am spinning through the night
Orbiting your light forever
Eyes wide shut I'll dream of endless sky

Dear Sky

This song is the climax of the concept EP we've been working on, Orion Over the Lake. It's written from the perspective of a star, Alpha Orionis (more commonly known as Betelgeuse), which is about to SUPERNOVA YOU GUYS. So this is about all dem emotions and even the sciency stuff that's happening before the star explodes. Hope you like it!

So many names I've had throughout your history
Sultans call me "Shoulder of the Giant"
"Osiris's right hand," said a youthful Ptolemy
While bushmen view a lion lonely and defiant
Some are staring toward a crimson butterfly
Others see the blood-red flag of the samurai

But little do they know
I'm looking back at them
As they look up at me

When fusion unfurls
A final pulse will beat
Rolling forward
Sparking sons of suns

Heavy matter's flowing down my spine
Every vertebrae a single element
Super-heated neurons spark and intertwine
Ions course through the shell within
Tumbling through a nuclear cascade
Over terraces of each atomic weight

When fusion unfurls
A final pulse will beat
Rolling forward
Sparking sons of suns

Heart of hearts is full of iron
Plasma pumping something fatal
Metal melts but it won't burn
Equilibrium unsustainable
Red rust dripping to the core
Of a heart soon to beat no more

When fusion unfurls
A final pulse will beat
Rolling forward
Sparking sons of suns

What is a soul, what is a soul
But a fire deep inside
Don't you know, do you not know
What's alive can never die
As one life comes to end
A thousand more begin

VI. Alpha Orionis

I wrote this song this week, it was inspired by this poem by Galway Kinnel, from The Book of Nightmares:

"Dear stranger
extant in memory by the blue Juniata,
these letters
across space I guess
will be all we know of one another.

So little of what one is threads itself through the eye of empty space.

Never mind.
the self is the least of it.
Let our scars fall in love."

Enjoy!

Let Our Scars Fall in Love

My cover of "No Sound But The Wind" by Editors, based off the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy. 

No Sound But The Wind

Wrote this about a year ago and just realized I never posted! Just a simple thing. Lyrics and performance by me, music written by my love Amy Broderick.

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