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Ooh, try to concentrate on breathing
And let your thoughts fall like water to the floor
When you put a name to what you’re seeing
Know that it’s all just the trick of the light
When the dark recoils
And the morning invites us in
Crawling and unfurling
Let the sunlight soak through our skin
Wash away the night that has been
Ooh, try to concentrate on breathing
And let your thoughts fall like water to the floor
When you put a name to what you’re seeing
Know that it’s all just the trick of the light
As simple as that
Air around us burning
A bitterness in your eyes
Blue weeping fires
The unfreezing of the ice
The unhinging of your mind
Ooh try to concentrate on breathing
And let your thoughts fall like water to the floor
When you put a name to what you’re seeing
Know that it’s all just the trick of the light
As simple as that
You break and scatter
Shattered glass onto stone
Cold fingers in dust
It cuts to the bone
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We talked on the phone it’s as it’s always been
Say you wanna see me on my birthday and I’m teary again
You wanna take a road trip in an electric van
When you’re not studying, will I be far away then?
Oh it sounds like fun oh it sounds like fun
Pity it came undone because it sounds like fun
I say I’m fragile today, can’t cope with social events
Seem to get so upset about the littlest things
So overcome by it all, lose sense of space and time
I know I didn’t reply, but you were on my mind
Oh what a shame it all didn’t go to plan
We had wild dreams of a future
And we thought and we prayed
To anyone that might hear
And if we crossed our fingers it might just appear
And we’d wake up one bright day and see
We’d had our wishes granted
More than three
How didn’t we see
We couldn’t withstand gravity
We all believed in a dream where she was alive and well
No one told us she was falling down then one day she fell
Couldn’t tell nobody in this whole damn world
Now we’re drunk on the floor watching it all unfurl
Oh what a shame it all didn’t go to plan
We had wild dreams of a future
And we thought and we prayed
To anyone that might hear
And if we crossed our fingers it might just appear
And we’d wake up one bright day and see
We’d had our wishes granted
More than three
How didn’t we see
We couldn’t withstand gravity
Like a nightmare they said, it’d be over at the end of the night
It was just a matter of time
And if we said it enough, we could join all the stars in a line
With enough hope it’d all be alright
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HEAVY
Outside if we look closely we’d find small things could move us
No we look for great heights and for shimmering brilliance to reflect in our eyes
To sit on a throne, even if it’s all alone and cut our skin and find our blood is blue
Look inside and find our minds are too
We find our minds are blue
And ten years on
Will we wonder what we ever thought we were doing?
With some vague plan
And a fear of changing ways that we were living?
Oh we all hold something so heavy
Heavy, Heavy
Whatever became of our sanity?
I watch the smoke form towers rising up to the heavens
The trees were screaming ashes as we wielded our weapons
Once the sky was blue
We could see a clear window view
And ten years on
Will we wonder what we ever thought we were doing?
With some vague plan
It can be easy to feel so damn defeated
Chorus
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POCKETS OF STONES
It’s not until now that I realise
The injuries left hidden inside
And how scared I was that you’d be repulsed by this body of mine
That you’d cower away and you’d freak out
When all the worst parts of me leaked out
Of my nose and my mouth, every pore of my skin and my ears and my eyes.
And I told you my weak breathing was just anxiety breath
Scared of the forbidden, being left alone with the worst thoughts running wild inside my head
Cast my memory back
Slowly draw in the net
Throw myself right into the current, will I float?
What a time we did have
When we weren’t thinking so hard
Well I guess it’s a comfort we’ve emptied our pockets of stones
With the flesh inside me crawling
And the lungs in my chest still heaving
I’ll try to untangle this mess that I’ve mangled and order it into a line
But sometimes plain speaking can’t do justice
To the rawness and the roughness
Of the pieces of past that have cut me apart and make me a wreck by design
And I told you my quick breathing was just anxiety breath
Scared of the silence, being left alone and everything leading to death
And now I’m alone, I’m riding home and my mind it twists and it cries
Why is it only easy, is it always easy, easier to talk in the night?
Chorus
I am constantly pushing aside the debris
I am constantly losing sight of my feet
I am trying to see where I should go
But the words in my head are stuck in my throat
Chorus
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AS A CHILD
When you’re a child
You breathe a magical life of your own
In the blink of an eye
You wake up and find all the magic is gone
When you’re a child
The clouds hold your wishes in soft loving arms
And the light of the day
Holds wondrous ways to treasures and charms
Is it possible to see that light again
To hold that wonder again
Like I did as a child
As a child?
When you’re a child
On a broomstick you might just fly up and away
And if you listen close
The wise old oak might have something to say
Fox in the night
You swore he gave you a wink of an eye
All the friends in your mind
There comes a day that you say your goodbyes
Chorus
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MIRANDA
Oh Miranda how you wish he’d smile that way for you
And that you’d make him laugh the way she always seems to do
Despite his devotion, and all his affection you wonder if she’s too good for you
And on the lawn together you’d lie
And all the clouds scuttle across the sky
And you wonder if you should just, you wonder if you should just let it all pass you by
Oh Miranda, oh how hard, oh how hard you try
And her voice rings out across the room like many bells
And she talks as if she’s always known him so very well
And though she’s never held a man
You think maybe she can and the thought gives you hell
Chorus
And one afternoon when you’re alone she comes to your door
With a face blushed red she asks you if he is home at all
And Miranda in your strife, you grab the kitchen knife and she sinks to the floor
And on the lawn together you’d lie
And all the clouds scuttle across the sky
And you wish that you had just, you wish that you had just let it all pass you by
Oh Miranda, oh how hard, oh how hard you try
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TREADING WATER
We walked from Footscray all the way to Seaholme
And we talked about what we did when we were kids
We asked each other stupid questions, talked about the silly things
If only it could always be like this
We followed the path ‘round the coast in the sunshine
You couldn’t help but hold me to you close
And when you touched me I felt an aching
Fear of losing, fear of breaking
It took a while for that feeling to go
We both knew we were just treading water
Eventually drowned each other
Grab hold of you, pulled you under
Minds already the bluest colour
It's now I remember all of the best times
Like when we camped under stars when we first met
We climbed a hill to those abandoned trams
Lay together underneath the pines and
Skinny-dipped in the river as the sun set
And in all of the pictures where we’re together smiling
We both held our own wounds deep in our chests
Sometimes we wanted to scream aloud
But it’s easier to shut them out
Than risk breaking our many woven threads
Chorus
Would it be wrong to call this grieving
Losing someone who is still breathing
Smouldering, aching, fear of leaving
Pitiful, lonely, helpless feeling
Swing between numbness, body heaving
Try to ignore my faltered breathing
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I watch your motionless picture
Hoping one day it’ll move
You watch my restless sleep, I call for you to show
But I see nothing at all
I came home one Wednesday afternoon
It was a long day and I’d said goodbye to you
Now every piece of me is aching for that touch,
Aching for that love,
Aching for that heart to beat
Now I won’t find the comfort of your arms anymore
We won’t whisper into the night anymore
No bubble baths the water’s run dry too short
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight forever
Three thousand paper cranes we made for you
Three good wishes with the hope to get you through
And now I wonder were they ever heard at all
Was it the only thing we could do
Was there even someone to wish to
Chorus
We all suspended hope that it would pass
That that year wouldn’t be your last
I stood in the hospice yard
I was so young I took the burden
Hold it with me everyday
In the pockets of my jeans and the smile on my face
Chorus
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Another cold day where I blend into the grey
We are both cold and empty
Cold air cold feet Throw me into the deep
Throw me into a deep sleep
I had a dream snow was all I could see
A woman took me way up to the mountains
She wanted to show me just how far I could go
Before my lungs were at risk of exploding
She tried to ease my mind
You’ll never know unless you try
She took my hand and said let's fly
And we’ll lift off
Over a canyon and we’ll
And we’ll lift off
Fly through the fog
And we’ll lift off
Over a canyon and we’ll
And we’ll lift off
Not knowing if we’ll cross
Another bad night waking me up with a fright
I was alone in the desert
Lying flat on the ground creatures crawled from my mouth
And flew into the distance
A girl appeared in a tree told me to climb up and see
Something she had discovered
When I got to the top she said we had to jump off
She counted down from one hundred
She tried to ease my mind
We’ll never know unless we try
She took my hand and said let's fly
Chorus
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I could have gone in any direction
But somehow I ended up here.
You seem to believe in this superstition
We’re pieces of puzzle get rid of "that"
Placed into the rubble
Put right where we’re all meant to be
And when it’s our time
We’ll fade into the light
Maybe upwards or some other direction
Reaching heaven or hell
Or back into the well of wonderful oblivion
And somehow I know
That I’ve seen this moment
Somewhere between here there
and dreaming
And the things that you say
Are an echo's decay
Like somehow I’d already heard them
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“Wonderful Oblivion is a moving work, dressing up the shared experiences of the everyday with music that tugs at the heart and stirs the imagination.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Australian
released October 22, 2021
ALBUM CREDITS
All songs written and arranged by Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes
All horn arrangements by Daniel Ledwell
Produced and Engineered by Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes and Daniel Ledwell
Mixed by Daniel Ledwell
Mastered by Isaac Barter
Mabel Windred-Wornes: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, cello, ukulele
Ivy Windred-Wornes: vocals, violin, banjo, glockenspiel
Daniel Ledwell: drums, percussion, bass, electric guitar, piano, harp, flugelhorn, trombone
Finn Milne: piano (track 4)
Indyana Kippin: viola (track 8)
PHOTO CREDIT:
Laura May Grogan
© and ℗ 2021 AntiFragile Music
