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Estival

by Kittiwake

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1.
Incarnate 05:14
You've got some light coming in from the west, from the west now dripping down your window panes from the west, from the west now Seeping into your floorboards shadows play when you aren't looking but i am looking and I can see them peeping toms these are their places hard won but can you blame them? to inhale such motion to breathe it in Mark my words, we will move closer All things move toward their end You wrap your secrets around you like a sweater cloaking your emotions in layers and layers peel them back, fall apart its getting dark and I feel like we have stopped motion the lights have gone out Mark my words, we will move closer All things move toward their end We've come to a fork in the road the path is laid out before us Every word, every whisper, every gesture I will cater to you Hold me accountable Please undo me My feet have carved circles in these hills I've been here before I think that I have been here before This is all so familiar
2.
In quiet shuffling of feet and faces deck of cards for the masses I watch the fine lines of your back move I run my fingers over them They are like beautiful rivers they are my pleasure This is where I lay my head this is where I take my rest And when we awake there is a moon hanging over its orbiting around us and we are its center There is a place with no name we built it from our blood and bones and beings we filled it with all of our collected moments and we left it sitting quietly in secret and I will take my meals there I will build a fire this is my Graceland this is my shelter I created this and I can break it but I will wait in the fire
3.
Build Me Up 04:20
I feel like the walking dead been asleep for so long theres a clicking in the back of my head lets my know that I'm not too far gone I hear the whispers in the trees the rattling of their leaves broken branches and twisted roots digging down to their tombs Make up a story all about me recreate the sense of myself build me up out of the ground now out of nothing, out of something I want to be surrounded I don't want to be found I want to be grounded Until I can't see anything else Until I can't see anything else So we dig down a little deeper we keep scratching at the surface Pulling apart the pieces breath shallow, losing our balance When once our feet were firmly planted when once we could see our futures we could see so clearly where we were headed
4.
1.5 06:33
We were golden once but now the jumping point is right here It is right in front of my nose I should have seen it coming all along I can't hold this place up I can't take care of my self I knew you'd see right through me I'd forgotten all I've said I've done and did away with it Its over, she's spoken and all of the splinters pieces she bit from her tongue the shards have fractured off A morsel, delicious My baby, for dinner She's just a dream forgotten the crumbs are shaken away She won't stay The words have been hanging from my tongue Their little points dig into the muscle I fling them out of my mouth I've known for months and months I've sat on the knowledge I tried to swallow them up, gone I knew you'd see right through me I'd forgotten all I've said I've done and did away with it I'm trying to soften all of the edges but I'm lying to myself
5.
I was considering the sentiment my lips upon the earth kissing the dirt digging, digging into it You catch me stirring with wide eyes and whimpering slow down and muddle my movements, my thoughts I've become stunted a glimmer, a glance hold me above the water And I was considering the sentiment of a bird through window flown broken glass shattered and little particles were sent forth out into the world their feathers to drift into thickets and flowers and pressed between the pages I'm the wiggling worm caught in beak snatched up and swallowed whole You care you caress you dream me into the beautiful-est You make me feel alternating like I'm veering between two extremes And I was considering the sentiment of a house gone down in flames licking their lips and reaching for ceiling beams suffocated and gasping for breath lying still and motionless tumbling down, and down, and down I'm lost no lucidity bring me back, please I was considering the sentiment my lips upon the earth kissing the dirt digging, digging into it Alternating uplift me Dash me Repeat

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Estival is the first of 3 EPs set to be released and recorded over the course of this year covering the summer, autumn and winter seasons.

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released October 16, 2015

Lyrics and music by Kittiwake
Piano and Vocals : Laila O'Sullivan
Bass : Matthew Ryan Harris
Drums : Travis Burrows
Cello : Molly McDermott
Guitar : Gavin Hage

Recorded and Mixed by Rebecca File
Mastered by Scott Westrick
Cover art by Sophie La Leo

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Kittiwake

Kittiwakes are coastal breeding birds ranging in the North Pacific, North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. The black-legged kittiwake is often known simply as kittiwake. The name is derived from the birds call, a song 'kittee-wa-ake, kittee-wa-ake'. Colonies can be found throughout the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands to southeast Alaska. In the winter, the range extends further south and out to sea. ... more

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