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At Your Feet
04:18
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Motivated by joy
Settle in for the day
You’ve got so much to say
And so many at your feet
Make another mark before you go
With so much promise better pick a team to follow
(Pick a team to follow, pick a team to follow)
You red your lips and you’re in the know
That’s a whole lot of pride for such a young thing to swallow
(For someone so young, someone so young)
It’s your work and it’s your play
And I’m everywhere between
Turning sour, turning grey
I never thought I would have pity for you
Make another mark before you go
With so much promise better pick a team to follow
(Pick a team to follow, pick a team to follow)
You red your lips and you’re in the know
That’s a whole lot of pride for such a young thing to swallow
(For someone so young, someone so young)
She’s always next to me (always next to me)
Doubling every action
A single measure on repeat (on repeat)
I won’t give her the satisfaction
Make another mark before you go
Make another mark before you go
You red your lips and you’re in the know
You red your lips and you’re in the know
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Bodyworlds
04:01
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Suspended in mid-air
Flexing muscles on display
How lucky I was to be there
Peering up at the inverted man
Forever, you could live forever
Or at least I could behold you forever
And ever, you could live forever
And I would be beholden forever
A space for knowledge
Turned wicked in fantasy
Bodies enveloped in plastic
Preserved to keep forever
And ever, you could live forever
Or at least I could behold you forever
And ever, you could live forever
And I would be beholden forever
Forever, you could live forever
Or at least I could behold you forever
Forever, you could live forever
And I would be beholden forever
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3. |
In Her Image
03:23
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She pinches my cheeks
Makes a woman out of me
Fascinations with the looks hidden in pictures
Tethered to a vision
Molded in her image
Pressed in the signets and the books that she reads
You wrote me a note so sweet it hurt my teeth
I couldn’t speak
But the same tone that you bring to me
Could turn any page so there’s no story
And I’m not sure who to believe
Bound to a turn of phrase
Staying in your lane
But you say more with your eyes and your time
How could a woman with so much conviction
Tread on only one side of the line?
Underneath a tidal pull
Soon as it vanishes from sight
Drawn to the shore before
Calling out for a second life in hers and mine
You wrote me a note so sweet it hurt my teeth
I couldn’t speak
With your eyes half open we
Forget every line so there’s no history
At least not in your memory
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4. |
Soften the Blow
04:33
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When you soften the blow
And make it easier for me
When I’m feeling so low
You have an indulgent energy
What a simple pleasure
Acting out growing up next to you
Playing house
We built a home made just for us two
So nourish me
Where you go is where I will be
When I’ve been running on empty
So nourish me
Where you go is where I will be
In the esteem that you lend me
Little affections
Calling to check in
Reminds me of the state I’m in
A mirroring
I have a love I can repay
Because you won’t look the other way
I have a love I can repay
Because you won’t look the other way
I have a love I can repay
‘cause you won’t look the other way
Whenever I am doubting,
With it or without it
I have a love I can repay
‘cause you won’t look the other way
Whenever I am doubting,
With it or without it
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Glass of Anything
04:12
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I didn’t hear myself say anything
As you watched me contorting
Revoking my posture for the fears you were extorting
Do you need a glass of anything?
My water turned to wine
The dance was barely underway
But already it’s wasted time
Tell me with your body how you really feel
And I won’t say another word
Feeling you in gesture makes it so surreal
But I’ve never felt so heard
Tell me with your body how you really feel
And I won’t say another word
Feeling you in gesture makes it so surreal
But I’ve never felt so heard
I can only stretch a word so far
And I think I’m at the end
You’ve got the needle, I the thread
We can make amends
Did I check to see if you were out,
Or go on straight to bed?
The care I do it makes no sense
When it’s only in my head
Tell me with your body how you really feel
And I won’t say another word
Feeling you in gesture makes it so surreal
But I’ve never felt so heard
Tell me with your body how you really feel
And I won’t say another word
Feeling you in gesture makes it so surreal
But I’ve never felt so heard
Wasting my breath
Only to say
Something different
How I show myself
Wasting my breath
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6. |
External World
04:49
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You speak to me incisively
It’s piercing
And when you draw back the other way
You come out clean
I don’t feel how much has changed
Until later
But you spoke a chasm into being
Leaving me confined
Tell me are you holding on to trouble?
Tucked away but still it waits for us
I wished for it all
Visceral
But you didn’t demand all too much
No external world
I turn to you relentlessly
A witness
Surveying each choice I make
And every wreck
I wish I could act privately
Keep secrets
And stay on the straight and narrow
For the few watching
Tell me are you holding on to trouble?
Tucked away but still it waits for us
I wished for it all
Remorseful
And I know I can demand too much
No external world
Come to me
All alone ‘cause I’m lonely
Come to me
All alone when I’m lonely
Come to me
All alone ‘cause I’m lonely
Come to me
All alone ‘cause I’m lonely
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Helen Paradise Montreal, Québec
Helen Paradise is a band from Montreal, QC. Helen Paradise is Sophie Ogilvie, Markus Stahl, and Chris Steward.
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