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Idle Empress

by Idle Empress

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1.
Winter 04:12
Slated by your cigarette, brush off my cold shoulder River isn’t moving yet and I was never over I steal a look into your eyes where my thoughts are bound Grey and icy and terrified I keep mine down for now I keep mine down for now Jaded lines of what’s behind, in what we chose to keep Lies that kept me up all night, didn’t know your talk was cheap Didn’t know your talk was cheap Someday, I’m gonna find it Reclaim my own autonomy My love goes unrequited It leaves a ghost and it’s haunting me The freckles on your shoulder blades remind you of the summer The times we stayed in bed all day And I told you things I never told anybody else And you’d hold me close and say you’re just fine Oh I have those kinds of thoughts all the time Someday, I’m gonna find it Reclaim my own autonomy My love goes unrequited It leaves a ghost and it’s haunting me Someday I’m gonna find it Reclaim my own autonomy Tell me my love is blinded But you’re the only thing I see
2.
Wanderer 04:24
You watch the world through your red spectacles And contemplate things that you already know Oh you’re staying up late watching old tv shows And dream about cancer in blue light shadow And you don’t know how to begin to settle your mind But you’ll say that you’re doing just fine 'Cause your mind it wanders and your heart does the same It’s a lonesome way of living but a life all the same So you fix up your bike and you go your own way You don’t know where you’re going but you know you can’t stay Attribute your depression to your grandfather’s death And sell his belongings not a single one left But an old Cadillac and you decided to jet And take up cosplaying as professor X You don’t know how to begin to settle your mind But you’ll say that you’re doing just fine 'Cause your mind it wanders and your heart does the same It’s a lonesome way of living but a life all the same So you fix up your car and you drive out of state You don’t know where you’re going but you know you can’t stay Oh the plains aren’t wide enough for the wanderer He found a love but he never belonged to her Oh the plains aren’t wide enough for the wanderer The worlds not wide enough for the wanderer 'Cause your mind it wanders and your heart does the same It’s a lonesome way of living but a life all the same So you fix up your bike and you go your own way You don’t know where you’re going but you know you can’t stay
3.
Certain 04:44
We are broken, we are young We show the colors of our hearts strung out on our sleeves With bodies that cling to our own uncertainties And innocence is all we’d know And innocence is how we’d grow and it’s how we’d grow old And we won’t die alone, no We are broken, we are young We show the colors of our hearts strung out on our sleeves With bodies that cling to our own uncertainties My mind is fickle—I’m a mess But for you I’d do my best I’d hold your umbrella for you in the rain And kiss you where it hurts so you never feel the pain
4.
Woods 03:44
Woods I thought the earth remembered me She took me back so tenderly Arranging her dark skirts full of lichens and leaves I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed With nothing between me and the bright fire of the stars But my thoughts And they floated light as moths I hear small kingdoms breathing The creatures writhe and stir In the night I fall so eagerly To vanish into something better I rose and fell as if in water Grappling with a luminous doom By morning I had fell at least a thousand times Into something better…to something better
5.
Absence 02:43
There's some really dark places in the corners of my mind, No comfort in embraces and I can't sing in time anymore. Consciousness is fading; left my luckies in the rain. Your absence is sedating; I can't seem to recall my middle name. If I said what's on my mind, would you run? Would you tell me all the ghosts you've been hiding from? If I said what's on my mind, would you run? If you said what's on your mind... Your eyes, they always follow things nobody else can see; Behind them lives a demon and you're searching for relief. You sleep alone and dream of home. If I said what's on my mind, would you run? Would you tell me all the ghosts you've been hiding from? If I said what's on my mind, would you run? If you said what's on your mind would we be here?

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First and foremost, we have to thank our friend Leo Strei for all the work he did recording, mixing, and mastering this little record, and for being so patient throughout the whole process. We would also like to thank our families for their love and endless support of our artistic endeavors. Last but not least, a huge thank you to the city of Eau Claire and all the friends we've made here. The people of the Eau Claire arts community are some of the most creative and kind people we've ever met. Thank you all so much for the love, support, and inspiration you give.
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released January 1, 2016

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Leo Strei at Lake House, 2015.

Album artwork by Ella Strei // Album design by Jesse Johnson.

"Woods" features Hannah Hebl and Adelyn Strei as backing vocalists. "Woods" is original music put to words from "Sleeping In The Forest", a poem by Mary Oliver.

Songs written by Lauren Anderson // Arrangements by Idle Empress.

Idle Empress is Lauren Anderson (g/vox), Josh Frederick (b/g/vox) and Elliot Heinz (d)

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