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a building, a dreaming

by Take Me With You

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1.
Pack up Whatever you can carry Your life on your back You are what you take with you Take care as you pack Sharpened eye And shining smile Faithless words Whatever you think will please them So they'll let you go Only one goes home tonight Are you ready For the mercy fight This time There's nothing that can hold you Only what you make Traces left behind Tell the world of your mistakes You have come here just to prove You can work and you can love You'll have to prove it every day Only one goes home tonight (Are you ready) (Are you ready) Are you ready For the mercy fight (Only one) (Only one) Out of the crowd Pushing toward the light (Are you ready) (Are you ready) Step right up For the mercy fight (Only one) (Only one) (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Only one goes home tonight (Are you ready) (Are you ready) Are you ready For the mercy fight (Only one) (Only one) Out of the crowd Pushing toward the light (Are you ready) (Are you ready) On your feet For the mercy fight (Only one) (Only one) Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
2.
Siren, siren Come on and call me here Siren, siren Come on and find me here I don't know where I've gone I don't know where I belong Siren in the garden Take me down Underground, underground On a throne, all of stone All out of stone, stone Pomegranate seed Will you hold, will you hold me? Pomegranate stone Will you hold, will you hold? And the earth Splits above me And she grab me By the hair And the light come over my head And the light come over my head, head No, no, I don't want to go No I don't want to go And the earth Splits above me And she grab me By the hair, hair No, I don't want to go Offer me The wild fruit of the wild tree Offer me The wild fruit of the wild tree Offer me The wild fruit of the wild tree So I will never be free So I will never be free
3.
What did they give you To give it away? Where did you run to Lose your way? I remember you How light hit your eyes Always lifted up To the horizon Stand upon the pedestal Reach the ring What you leave behind you The sweetest thing You're going, going, gone Gone for golden Going, going, gone Gone for gold In the beginning You sever the ties Over those rooftops now You fly through Every night, every dream And then come down alone Never to see What you are to me What you are to me But I don't try to follow Don't ask why I watch you shoot like starlight Across the sky You're going, going, gone Gone for golden Going, going, gone Gone for gold Gone, gone, gone Gone, gone, gone Gone, gone, gone Gone, gone, gone Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
4.
How can i love you When you move like a ghost Through my world? One day and one role Next, you play the next kind of girl How can i love you When you live like a phantom? You've taught yourself to act Like someone else's dream Now i get caught up in the same old story Three times, I throw my arms Around you when you're gone Insubstantial But we live in symbol Existing through the words That make us up I take you into me Sing you out of memory Love you like a language Love you like a language Tell your stories (It pulls you out of space and time) It's your blessing It's your curse Call you up to show you I still know how to talk to you Do you like the new Taylor Swift? Honey, you were doing it first Now I know, I know, I know, I know You don't know who you need to be You've taught yourself to act Like someone else's dream You like to disappear in the morning But i've lost too many nights To you and your cryptic warnings I will not let you go I will not let you go Insubstantial But we live in symbol Existing through the words That make us up I take you into me Sing you out of memory Love you like a language Love you like a language Love you like a language Love you like a language Love you like a language Love you like a language Love you like a language Love you like a language Love you like a language Oh How can i love you?
5.
People pass by In the foyer Glance their hellos Little pebbles In the river Exchange glancing blows Sometimes you wanna lead and Sometimes you wanna be led Little pebbles in the river Are we gonna make a bed? We gonna hang tight? Are we gonna fight it How things fall apart? The day is done The night is come Where’re you going to? Take me with you Take me with you Take me with you Take me with you There’s a crossing So they tell me So deep and wide Leave your friends and your belongings On the other side Sunset, a feeling I get Like something’s closing in Fall fright in the shortening light Are we gonna let it win? You’re gonna let go So they tell me Maybe they’re wrong The day is done The night is come Where’re you going to? Take me with you Take me with you Take me with you Take me with you Take me with you Take me with you Take me with you Take me with you Whoa-oh-oh-oh Take me with you Whoa-oh-oh Take me with you Whoa-oh-oh-oh Take me with you Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
6.
Shell Game 04:31
I’ve grown a shell A fine exoskeleton A Faberge extension Thought it would serve me well Keep the weather off Keep the people entertained but Now I can’t reach the pedals Now my legs aren’t long enough to reach the floor I can’t see out anymore I’ve grown a shell I’m afraid to fill I can’t measure up I’m not that big, I’m not that shiny, no So help me I’m smaller than my life is Come get me I’m lost in my controls I hear you calling (Hear you calling) Calling from the outside I hear you Knocking on the walls Can you hear me? And if you can, get out the way My big feet will crush your town Flatten all the differences down I’m not much for nuance I’m not much for subtlety They never had much of a place for me So help me I’m locked in my control room I’m so lonely Lost in my controls I hear you calling (Hear you calling) Calling from the outside I hear you Knocking on the walls Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
7.
Sunrise 04:03
I will stand up over you All the fallen All that I have risen for All the while, all the while Days gone in denial All around us Hoping I can move the dial In time, in time I will stand up over you All the fallen Pouring in the door All the while, all the while Welcome with a smile All around us Open, I am only wild In time (Tell me, was it worth the while?) In time In time (Tell me, was it worth the while?) In time (Tell me, was it worth the while?) In time In time (Tell me, was it worth the while?) Overwhelm Hand on helm Wind in wave Words to save And I stand among you now All the risen I can only endow All the while, all the while Eyes upon the dial In between us Tell me, was it worth the while? This time? (Tell me, was it worth the while?) This time? This time? (Tell me, was it worth the while?) Between us, tell me was it worth the while? Between us, tell me was it worth the while?
8.
Take me out tonight Walk me through the fear Take me out tonight Hold me in the light How did we get to here? My god, what have we done? I’m too scared to stay There’s nowhere left to run We’re taking a walk We’re taking a walk We’re taking a walk Filling up the street Spilling out of ballrooms Staring into the dark The future fell from Waking from a dream Waking into nightmare Smashed our hall of mirrors We wake, the unseen Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Ah-ah-oh-ah-ah-ah Ah-ah-oh-ah-ah-ah Take me out tonight Walk me through the fire Raise our voices high Scream our denial I shiver in the night You bring me water I hold you in the light Our only hope is this We’re taking a walk We’re taking a walk We’re taking a walk We’re taking a walk We’re taking a walk We’re taking a walk Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Ah-ah-oh-ah-ah-ah Ah-ah-oh-ah-ah-ah Ah-ah-oh-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
9.
And this is how I answer the question Where was I? An inside And an outside Of a building Twenty stories high Am I dreaming? Or is this a building In waking? The way down Alongside me is crumbling Slide Down, down, we fall faster Slide after slide Twenty stories high And this is how I answer the question What was I feeling? The firetruck And the Ferris wheel Are found here The children are crossing the water And falling Falling into stone Are we on our own here? No one to ask Are we allowed up here? What happens if I open the door? Down, we’ll fall Faster Slide after slide Twenty stories high High High High High High High High What am I? A building? A dreaming?

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released June 29, 2019

cover art © 2019 Laura Krasnow

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Take Me With You Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Take Me With You revives lost motifs of pop songcraft to speak to others isolated in the modern world. Shimmering synths, distinctive female vocals, lyrical bass guitar hooks and electronic drums intertwine like flowering vines.

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