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Retro

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SK Приятные треки, и на удивление неплохие собственно для раннего и демо записи. И кстати, в основных релизах не сказать, что с миксом и мастерингом существенно лучше — на уверенные 6 из 10. Favorite track: Be Your Color.
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Sakura Magika such a treasure trove of wonderful! Favorite track: Be Your Color.
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Through the evening's low lights We try to imitate the clouds Drop flowers out the window Cast down by breezes to the crowds And then the sky explodes We've covered our heads with their towels Spread glasses round the floor Call the rain to come into our room We'll decide tomorrow And then the sky explodes We're always being robbed Of history by seconds Something so small Can drag us down Drag us along The neon glows in showers We scorn our lights and steal away The silent troops cry outside Tonight we're safe Why do we write this
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You stand on mountains to be tall And colors wrapped around your chest You’ve made me young for one last day My sticky hands unwind the last three thousand years And maybe this is not worth saying Your fingers on my arm forever It’s not where you’re from Just where we go Draw me inside the colors I place this aging ring upon your hand You’d smile but never realize There’s happiness, but we’ll be safe To remember on our dying day And maybe this is just like last year But give me your bones, make me better I’ll sleep like Christmas For only one last smile I wish I could be your color Tangled up in your forever I wish I could be your color Trust your difference, clapping for your ghosts
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This should have lasted longer Blue-gray sky and sheets and wonders Not the welcome I expected But then you realize the books are gone And all that you can do is make your own An electromagnetic haze Fell like snow on the streets where we played And crawling lost in the drifts we realized That tiny worlds like ours are damned To repeat the same collapse Over and over, hand in hand Until we’ve forgotten how to stand So I sent a valentine out to all those who long But who know they can never go home again And seeking their solace in stripping destruction Deny all the beauty in the world they can access And oh…how I loved you in spite of this So my memories of you Will be tied to the nastiest weather But what comes with the sunshine that always follows?
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Emerald 03:23
This is you On a bed in Beijing Bathed in worn lantern light Lying behind paper screens showing History unrelated to me In some parts of the world There are only stars From the ground to the sky And we watch them Like drifting in heaven All composed in emerald This is you In rivers and forests Still as stones, claiming these seconds While across the world Old men write laws To steal these precious stones Before we even feel them In some parts of the world There are only stars From the ground to the sky And we watch them Like drifting in heaven All composed in emerald And we watch them Like drifting in heaven All composed in emerald
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Marionettes 03:05
Leaving the spires of Moscow for Paris and spring Going abroad as Scheherazade, living legends of coquetterie The republic's imperialist daydreams embodied in me The instrument of imagination learning lessons in mortality But the harlequin of the Ballet Russes died His impresario growing like dreams Now the clown of God finds his hands and feet tied Caught up in the trap of the free Caught up in the trap of the free Oh Sergei, is this your most fabulous play Marionettes who determine the dance Ingenue, trophy, muse, or coquette Teach me my role of the day Teach me my role of the day But you must find it odd Your Scheherazade The gold odalisque of your dreams Here in your bed Caressing the head That trapped me with all of its schemes Backstage I was always the focus you wished you could be Panting and blue, strange ingenue, admirers orbiting me But with Romola, my bride, I sailed home to find The greatest scandal was waiting for me Yes, Sergei, you fired me, and Jean now ignores me And Misia has far greater fawns to ensnare I'm no longer your clown but Parisians remember The harlequin I used to be My strings have been cut but the world will remember The puppet that I used to be
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It’s whispered in circles Whispered in circles Meetings colliding and you showed up Empty handed again From the wings to the balcony It’s whispered in circles, whispered in circles That you turned up Empty handed again Welcome to your proclivity For boundless sensitivity Which age has led you To this decision, to this decision Society’s enemy So early and so cordial Is it true that the socialites Are the leading lights of socialism All your actor friends Playing patriots again Welcome to your complicity Party to duplicity And sir What does your new theology hold for me In this world Of heartbroken houses mending Just visions of revolution Where ladies volunteer To do the work of peasants Even you’re not so austere Welcome to impropriety Your part in this society And welcome to your morality So far from your reality
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If it wasn’t so convincing To fiction-raised children like me, Watchmaker, I would have come to doubt your story long ago But I’m trained to look for resolution Where even the work of scientists Can’t completely debunk all the myths Just think of all the years it took To get me where you wanted Your patient creation Waiting for your blessings And through the sun and snow Of a world you didn’t even make I longed for you But so much for theology And so I sift through gears and springs Trying to find an answer Some microcosm to believe in And if I uncover all the fallacies inherent Well, maybe I can still accept you Because this love, as I see it, Is more a case of faith than logic Just think of all the years it took To get me where you wanted Your patient creation Waiting for your blessings And through the sun and snow Of a world you didn’t even make I longed for you But so much for theology And how much evidence will we require Before we finally change the story Just think of all the years it took To get me where you wanted Your patient creation Waiting for your blessings And through the sun and snow Of a world you didn’t even make I longed for you But so much for theology
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Snow Day 03:59
You tried to play the good-guy But you forgot your lines You wanted to rest your conscience But if feels you've lost your mind And now you're snowed inside your home I doesn't matter that you want to go It looks like you'll be spending Some time alone... The sun is trying to shine But it can't break through the clouds You can see a blue sky But it's not over your house And the window's so cold You can't look out of it and hope But even if the doors were unlocked You'd still miss your mark In the fortress of your room The darkened lights have got you down And all the socks that you put on Won't protect you from the cold cold ground And the snow where the kids make angels Subjects you to the devil's boredom Just remember, it's a workshop Of your own design The sun is trying to shine But it can't break through the clouds You can see a blue sky But it's not over your house And the window's so cold You can't look out of it and hope But even if the doors were unlocked You'd still miss your mark The cold is a desert where you beg for water A drop to show things getting better 'Cause you've already cleaned the bathroom But your guilty fingerprints, they just bloomed Now you're dying to admit you love her But you think it might upset your master After all, a sign of progress was not What today was meant to bring The sun is trying to shine But it can't break through the clouds You can see a blue sky But it's not over your house And the window's so cold You can't look out of it and hope But even if the doors were unlocked You'd still miss your mark
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Limit 04:33
Silence...just hold onto this silence Tomorrow I'll be worlds away And all that's left will be the words we said yesterday It's sunny here, and I can't breathe I hope you're sleeping and your friends aren't sick Thank you for proving that my dreams do exist somewhere We spend our spangled lives planning our demise We never have the time to make things work out right And I was born too late to understand my light I'm sure the others cried, but they never laughed like you And all the pictures fade, I'll burn them all away If I'm not there at all, they've been taken anyway And up above the rain, the umbrellas and the pain I set my limits low, but you made me think again Silence...don't leave me with this silence I want my ears to ring forevermore Recalling what you said as I walked through the door It's bright outside, how can I leave When there's this picture hanging over me And in your distance, I hear church bells ring I met you in the sky, by accident, I cried I never have the time to make things work out right My limits are all passed, there's only forever left But I was born to late, and that will be my death
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On a night you don't remember We dreamed under the same sky Side by side, black and cold But you'll remember tonight Side by side, black and cold I'm dreaming in your eyes In your hands... Weeks have passed in dreams And as it grows colder and colder You acquiesce, finally and beautifully And you'll remember tonight Amnesiac girl, a sea of flowers Crushed on your body I'm in your hands It's colder now than when I went to sleep Waking in an ocean Drowning in flowers Now under the sunlit sky I caress to half-objections But we find our way home I find my way beneath you As we disintegrate into flowers Powdered and scattered I'm in your hands It's colder now than when I went to sleep Waking in an ocean Drowning in flowers Again and again we collapse And when I'm old, I'll want these days back But here in youth the tears seem endless Flowers have resolved into another body Another ocean I'm drowning in the two of you And you've already forgotten It's colder now than when I went to sleep Waking in an ocean Drowning in flowers
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This is a collection of early recordings and demos, from 2003-2010. Most of these tracks were recorded when I knew virtually nothing about mixing and mastering, so the sound quality generally isn't great. However, I still like some of the songs enough to make them available.

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released November 22, 2014

Hannah Morgan - Vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, programming, toy xylophone, production.

Special thanks: Travis 1 for his help with the original mix of "Be Your Color" and Travis 2 for loaning me gear; Dazia for inspiring "Queen Castabel's Theme"; Heather for promoting my music on her podcast.

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