What I've Become

I, Hope asks what Hope would say if it were a person in relationship with us - would it be offering empty or superficial platitudes? Would it be bitter if (and when) we leave it for disappointment? Or would it say something else?”

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km3ypTFlxSE

Lyrics:
I was found by the river of the damned
The waters rising, one more minute till I drowned
The hands that laid me, wrapped me tenderly in white
Fingers found me, reaching desperately for life

Where, where shall I go? 
Father, where, where shall I go?

I was raised in a foreign family
The things unknown were my soliloquy
To look beyond and see the things unseen
But when they heard, oh how they despised me

Where, where shall I go?
Father, where, where shall I go?

And I sung, oh I sung into your soul
Into things you didn’t know weren’t whole
But when disappointment took your eyes
You left me on a rugged tree to die

I came back, 
I came running back
I came to take you home

Where, where shall I go?
Father, where, where shall I go?

I, Hope

I wrote this song circa 2014, a little over a year after moving to NYC. Once the excitement wore off, I saw the city’s struggles & felt that rushed feeling of doing everything and anything to strive for success - & I felt it’s effects on me. It was like someone was sitting on my chest for years & I felt lonely even though there was literally millions of people around me at all times. I wrote this song within 15 minutes. It’s one of the saddest songs I’ve ever written, but personally one of my favorites. Not many people know this, but no matter how much I liked NYC, for almost the entirety of my 8 years there, I suffered from severe anxiety. If anyone is struggling with anxiety or depression, please know that there are resources out there whenever you want or need them & that you are not alone. Many people in this world love you whether you know it, feel it, trust it or not. It gets better; stay strong.
Recorded at: Better Company Studios 
Cover photo by: Adam Exha
Edited by: me
Font by: @totaloliviamove

Lyrics:

Sirens wailing through the night
No one looking to the left and right
When crossing the street anymore

Shadows walk by you
No I'm not used to
Not one body smiling back

Smoke cloud mushrooms blow through the sky
Walk past destruction without another glance by
At what the fuck is this place in my mind

Shadows walk with you
Yes I am used to
That as the only comfort

I wish I knew what love was about
What it feels like and what my life was without
The darkness creeps closer each and every day
Threatening to pull me under from the sunshine in the way

Shadows

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Lyrics:
I'm calling out another you
No pushing down - we're pushing through
The outrage, the elegy
It's different now, but nothing new
You follow me - I follow you
Into the night in circles

No recall of a last round
All along buried face down
To be found in a dried out sea
I see the low from the high ground
I'm putting out old fires now
Letting go adolescent dreams

I'm calling off another me
Wounded pride - jealousy
Hard to hide like blood stains
All in all gravity
Made us fall, made us fall
Through the clouds in circles

No recall of a last round
All along buried face down
To be found in a dried out sea
I see the low from the high ground
I'm putting out old fires now
Letting go adolescent dreams

Letting go adolescent dreams

Adolescent dreams

I see the low from the high ground
Putting out the old fire now
Letting go adolescent dreams

Old Fires

The third and final single from Quiet Rooms.

Weigh It In

This track is a duet between Holly Martin and Harry Keyworth. Holly's vocals drench the warm rich production of Harry Keyworth bringing you a dreamy pensive sound to daydream to

ON & ON by Harry Keyworth- Holly Martin

Far Again

Sparrow

St. Agnes

Breathe is about reveries and crazy projects we have that never come true. It is also about the desire to escape society in order to refocus on oneself.

When we met with Mathieu Grillo at his studio to start recording a new song, we first worked a few hours on a completely other song, but without being convinced by it. By the end of the session, I jammed with my guitar and started playing something else. Mathieu liked what I was playing, so I stayed a bit longer to put some structure to it and record a maquette. Ten sessions later, we gave birth to what is now my new single, "Breathe".
credits
from Uvarious Artists Vol.13, released March 11, 2022
Mathieu Gombault - guitar and voice
Mathieu Grillo - Synthe, bass, drums

It was recorded at Mathieu Grillo's studio in Brussels. He helped me out with the recording, production and mix of it. Mastering has been done by Equus mastering studio. 

"In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge." B.G. 2.57

released March 11, 2022

There is always some upheaval in the material world which may be good or evil. One who is not agitated by such material upheavals, who is unaffected by good and evil, is to be understood to be fixed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As long as one is in the material world there is always the possibility of good and evil because this world is full of duality. But one who is fixed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is not affected by good and evil, because he is simply concerned with Kṛṣṇa, who is all-good absolute. Such consciousness in Kṛṣṇa situates one in a perfect transcendental position called, technically, samādhi.

- Srila Prabhupada

Тот, кто, живя в материальном мире, свободен от мирских привязанностей, кто не слишком радуется, когда с ним случается что-то хорошее, и не злится, когда случается что-то дурное, обладает совершенным знанием. Б.Г. 2.57

В материальном мире постоянно что-нибудь происходит, хорошее или плохое. Следует понимать, что тот, кого не беспокоят мирские события, кто одинаково реагирует на хорошее и плохое, уже развил в себе сознание Кришны. Пока мы находимся в этом мире, с нами в любой момент может случиться что-нибудь хорошее или плохое, поскольку материальный мир — это мир двойственности. Однако человека, обладающего сознанием Кришны, не беспокоят проявления двойственности, ибо все его мысли сосредоточены на Кришне, всеблагом абсолютном Господе. Тот, чье сознание поглощено Кришной, достигает высшей ступени духовного совершенства, которая на санскрите называется самадхи. 
#nowar #нетвойне #uvariousartists

Uvarious Artists Vol.13

Matt Gombau - Breathe | Uvarious Artists 13

SHEAL is a Toronto-based folk-pop singer-songwriter.

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