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Asteroid Love Song

by Rachael's Surrender

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1.
They wander through our lives Through portals that we leave wide open Weaving through our days Walking these electric pathways And I can't look away She's throwing out his letters Letting go of it all She sketches her forgetting He's passing through my wall And I can't look away – I can't look away I monitor the wires for a sign Sleepwalking in the stuff of dreams The image on the screens before me He mourns the disappeared She's not returning, no Last seen more dead than living On the streets of San Francisco Then comes the apparition, the invitation Soulless in its cruelty As if he had the choice To reconnect To say hello I monitor the wires for a sign Sleepwalking in the stuff of dreams The distance in between collapsing Just let me be Just le me be Where and when I am (Still filled up with loss Still lost in the sound Still holding the air Like a hole in the ground Still holding the hope What's lost will be found Still lost in the sound) I monitor the wires for a sign Sleepwalking in the stuff of dreams Tearing at the seams, collapsing (Still holding the rope Still lost in the sound Still holding the hope Like a hole in the ground Still running on air While running aground Still lost in the sound) I monitor the wires for a sign Sleepwalking in the stuff of dreams The distance in between collapsing (Still lost in the sound)
2.
I lean my weight against the second hand Countering clockwise with all my strength At night, I only half-sleep Half keeping my hands Where I can feel you beside me, still Don't cry There's such a little time Don't you know that's the reason why We shine so perfectly This time Intensified A shaft of light piercing through the blinds Is how we shine In the seventeen In the seventeen sunrises left of you It's the seconds to liftoff, counting down It's the rise of the firework, just before the burst of fire It's the coiling tighter of the spring-wire Tighter around me Tighter within me Don't cry It's such a little time Don't you know that's the reason why We shine so perfectly This time Intensified A shaft of light piercing through the blinds Is how we shine In the seventeen In the seventeen sunrises left of you (don't you know that's the reason why I keep my hands where I can feel you I can feel you beside me still)
3.
Mrs Oddity 04:37
The cops came by this morning Things didn't go as planned The panic in their eyes - Can't say I was surprised The answers to their questions I knew but didn't say How could it all go wrong? It's what you wanted all along You were the young explorer With stars stuck to your eyes Charts upon your wall What could I do but fall? Into the great experiment The Manifest Design The journey of a lifetime Of leaving me behind What was he wearing? How can they still not be beyond caring? His final seconds, captured - In my mind like a broken record: The house we built is growing smaller in the distance I see it through your eyes (so small behind you) Earth below you, growing smaller in the distance I see it through your eyes The small bright light you left behind I only follow in my dreams In this room of grand machines I don't leave the bed we made Block out the sun, pull all the shades Fuck the stardom and the stars The points and stares from passing cars I'll take the ground over the skies Ten more years of seeing through your eyes Our inspiration, carried away! By the hopes of a nation His final seconds, captured - In my mind like a broken record And all the love and adoration in the world Was not enough to bring you home To make this feel like home
4.
Peppermint 05:26
We missed the moment You kissed me full of peppermint You'll never ask me out again You were doing fine before me The queen of your coterie Of damaged little acolytes They'll eat the heart right out of you - Given the chance Like sharp-toothed little savages They don't deserve you I know that I'm not ugly Enough for you to love me But I'm strange and I'm shy Hidden where you'll never find And it's a shame To see you standing in the rain, again Won't you come in? Am I too much the princess? Radiant and loveable But still passive and untouchable Hiding there up in my tower Waiting for the call: Let down, let down... And oh I'm sorry for The wall of briars around my door It's just the sorry souveniers Of a hundred years of habit, dear That keep me frozen still ...We missed the moment...
5.
I took a walk along the streets Of the new Atlantis The only person walking And as the cars go gliding by They stare out of their windows Like it was something shocking The new Atlantis The underwater city of tomorrow Locked away from warmth and sunlight In the enormous compound In the sub-arctic chill The mothers wonder why The children aren't speaking Their faces strangely still And oh my eyes have seen your buildings rise Your palms stretching to the skies What a rare and lovely view (my eyes have seen) In the hour of your widest arms, your glory and grandeur Before the waters come for you They're rising too You'll make a plan To save the ones you can And build your castles higher Over fast-eroding sand So many questions I could ask Before your voices are lost to time Did you see it coming? You wage your battles on the body that supports you But never fear She'll take you back again She'll take you in
6.
Low 04:40
Isn't it strange, how all the space we've taken Could collapse into such a tiny spot A sliver of time, unbearably consequential Concentrating all that we are not To say To carry far away Edges from the shape they hold Secrets from the life that can be told Piece from piece the image shatters You can't retrace me, baby, no Just keep it down, it down, it low In every street's a new shadow To recollect the shape you know So hard, I could be made of diamonds Compromised by a single fatal flaw A thousand shards, a thousand tiny fragments Scattered through the world and one below Your skin So you begin Sifting through the dust and ashes Haunted by a grief that dare not speak Gather up the shatter-pieces You can't retrace me, baby, no Just let it lie, in lies laid low In every street's a new shadow To tell a tale I know I know, I know, I know You can't retrace me, baby, no The night it fall, it come, it go In every street's a new shadow To recollect the shape you know
7.
Shadow Loss 04:48
I was dreaming I came to see you In your library You said you had no time for me I left there, crying: When will I give up on you? I woke into A world that had forgotten you You were my shadow The twinning of my heart And we were never far apart As long as I kept this empty space beside me Aching with the shape of you I've grown into A life that has no space for you Shadowloss Memories of missing you Shadowloss Are all that I have left of you (I've let you go, I've let go I don't even think about you oh no I'm free like I wanted to be for so long I've let you go) My ex-confidante, my over-wanted under-deliverer Now the pain is gone, there's nothing left of you For me to hold on to No desire, sackcloth or ashes No heat left in this fire It's been long enough since you last said you loved me I have stopped wondering what that means In your absence Shadowloss Loneliness, my constant companion Shadowloss Can't keep my company My ex-confidante, my over-wanted under-deliverer Now the pain is gone, there's nothing left of you For me to hold on to Shadowloss Let go the last trace of you Shadowloss Let light into the dark My ex-confidant, my over-wanted under-deliverer I go on and on, and the ghost of you is gone How can I go on when the ghost of you is gone?
8.
Put on your stupid suit Like we're in Prohibition Concealing guns in your cumberbund Like chaos could ensue It betrays your intuition That there is danger here, for you You are drawn to your past The gangsters that outlast their time And take up mine Wasn't it here? The glory days of industry On a familiar brink Drink while you can, boys (This ship is sinking) This ship is going down La la la la... You don't look me in the eye these days 'Cause I want to take your time And you don't have any time It's cool, I'm busy, too Just thought I might connect with you In this future-past Do you remember the last time we danced this way? It was 1929 What a beautiful sunset What a dazzling display We'll look anywhere but where we're going We'll do anything we can To get away From what we know is coming Everyone in suits Like it's Prohibition Pretend we share the rules Dressed up in inhibition Everyone in suits Like it's Prohibition Perform the disconnect Dressed up in inhibition If I could push back time for you, would you pursue me Like you chase yesterday?
9.
Pirates! 04:27
These waters are a no-man's land And no man's hand Can sail this ship alone They are no man's own Somewhere they sail And they are hidden Invisible behind your permissions Call them impossible, impossible The outlaw life The disregard for land And titles handed down in flesh and bone Their fertile fields unsown Somewhere they sail And they are hidden Obscured behind a life of decisions That call them impossible, impossible So much is lost Within my failure to imagine A life, with you That no map can lead me to
10.
Every night I stand Looking out my window Gazing into the blue Watching that distant light Coming ever closer I'm waiting here for you I'll be by your side When our worlds collide I'll be by your side When our worlds collide I won't be afraid To see the end of Everything we knew 'Cause when that last facade Crumbles into nothing I will be here with you I'll be by your side When our worlds collide I'll be by your side When our worlds collide And when the pieces fall all across the sky There will be nothing – only you and I Amidst the dust of everything that was We will make our way We will fly... We will fly...

credits

released June 13, 2013

Vocals and Lyrics: Liz Nickrenz
Bass, Guitar, Programming: Reuben Surrender

Acknowledgement:
Reuben thanks all present and past members of Rachael’s Surrender including Elysabeth Grant, Michael Verzani, Brian Allemana, Tre Beaudoin, Graham Brisben. You have filled my life with joy. Also to past and present bands that I have the privilege to meet and play with through all these years. Most of all, to my constant inspiration and frustration – Wookie.

Liz thanks the muses: Major Tom; Emma Frost; Weston, Florida; the Darkroom, the Pirate Crew of Awesometown, Forsythia Snare, and the treasure-trove of stories that is the Internet. Also thanks to my sweet Pete, Populele, and the Reverend Spooky (it’s OK, we have Nigel).

Special thanks to Gary Carbon who has willingly worked on this CD design at such short notice.
(P) & © 2010 Kitten-Eye Productions

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