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Subtle Creature

by SHIRA

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I'm a house with no windows I'm a lock with no key I'm a dance with no dancer A piano with no keys I'm a lying girl One who lies with the world & I want everything & everything wants me I'm a typhoon on speed dial I'm literally dead I'm a dream with no dreamer I'm literally here & you could promise me I could be the one Sail the seven seas I could take you on every new wave You could be the one I could be the two love could be the three I could follow you always You, me, we, oh yeah I know I know I got it I know I know I got it all I know I know I got it It's like sugar on the marquee You, me, we, oh yeah You could promise me I could promise you Sail the seven seas I could take you on You could be the one I could be the two Love could be the three I could promise you I know I know I got it I know I know I got it all I know I know you want me I see the sugar on the marquee "Ladies & Gentleman Birds & Bumbles Welcome to yourself I should say so myself it is a very good day A very good day To be breath"
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Catch me roadside trying to clear the dust out of my lungs and if I go slow everyone knows it's cus I got something in my eyes nose running like I'm five, I'm running like I'm fire and the saltwater is a sign of the long road Heartbeat is a prisoner the beat is a prisoner taking the long road the beat is a prisoner taking the hunger strike the beat is a prisoner heartbeat is a prisoner taking the long road love is a hunger I don't know how you do it, stranded in the quiet the pain is a choir, its elegant inelegant design I don't know how you do it tho, staying alive on the west side everything is a terrible crime and even the rain don't wanna come down How does he do it, the cockroach, how does he stay alive? My heart's too big to survive MAL DEVISA: I wanna be reborn with the jazz still playing in a back alley in my home town get lit from the heatstroke brought on by the music oh God, the music I am the quiet before the ugliest rain, can you feel me in your knees? I am running with the breeze, dodging eyes and walking free you can find me howling in a moonlight scene they'll hunt me down but I'm known for showing teeth It's really coming down out there cats and dogs out there cats dogs rats and pigeons out there I'm really not going anywhere and if I may I'm a lot like God, I'm not a crier I just cry a lot and if I may I'm a lot like God, I'm not dead I just die daily and I used to be shy till I drank the garden dry now I can't help but notice at the bodega a bucket full of roses choked on still water as if that's all they really wanted and I know you've been there don't know where you've been but I know you've been tenuous religion, Russian roulette precision Russian dolls you open just to find another demon library visit, running through the stacks just to find a ghost you can hold that holds you back and it rolls of the tongue like a cannonball if you can't catch me you can't catch at all Heartbeat is a prisoner the beat is a prisoner taking the long road the beat is a prisoner taking the hunger strike the beat is a prisoner taking the long road the beat is a prisoner love is a hunger
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Cessation of sleep don't stay up so late you make a promise you can’t keep I just wanna knock so hard on the dream it wakes me is this the abyss? or a dilapidated kiss? I don’t wanna harsh your mellow but are you growing wings or do they drag? I wasn’t raised in a barn I was raised by the sun there was blood in my milk my mother taught me to run and ever since then I’ve been fine and ever since then I’ve been fine I don’t wanna harsh your mellow but are you growing wings or do they drag? SAMPLE: I always find I feel like a mouse confronted with a cobra there's something hypnotic about you can you explain it and where did it come from? I’m the whole mountain the whole enchilada If loose lips sink ships i’m silence’s mantra I can’t help but drown in your syllable slaughter I listen soft, I’m the rains daughter and partially I got a pocket full of timeless and i’m buried in the light partially I, firefly in a broken jar but i can’t seem to get out Love letter to wings: open love letter to mouth: speak or be spoken for love letter to sky: kite love letter to kite: sky cus I meant it when I said I’m dead I don’t know if you heard me write silk on a stone page I meant it when I said I’m dead (serious) don’t know if you heard me write silk on a stone page Love letter to doors: open love letter to eyes: see before sewn shut love letter to hate: see ya love letter to fire: one day you’ll put me out Talk to me, have mercy on me, operator of all I see I know something even I don’t know deep in the depths make me an echo make me an echo
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Handlebars 05:00
I tried to tell you "Come out, come outside" Is it just it's been so long You think you're Depressed is your chest pressed to the ground? I wanna take you outside And show you a bicycle ride Get lost and you don't wanna be found Lost I know a man and his muscles are clean He holds me like a gun holds a magazine Trust I'm not afraid of him His chest is gold he pulls at my stitches and sings I wanna take you outside And show you a bicycle ride Get lost and you don't wanna be found Lost You got what I need Take me for a ride down your boulevard You got what I need Take me for a ride on your handlebars You got what I need Take me for a ride down your boulevard You the moon and the see Take me for a ride down your handlebars Ahem, I tried to warn you If you find a good love you can't just throw it away Is it just physical? Or can the wind teach a woman how to pray I wanna take you outside And show you a bicycle ride Get lost and you don't wanna be found Lost You got what I need Take me for a ride down your boulevard You got what I need Take me for a ride on your handlebars You got what I need Take me for a ride down your boulevard You the moon and the see Take me for a ride down your handlebars Tom tom stick stick Gotta brain that often glitches Gotta mouth full of full ellipses I gotta sink full of mouse shit and dishes My gutter pulled me under oh shit Now everybody knows that I'm electric Drunk on chemicals grab the handlebars Imma ride until I get lifted Whoever said you only get three wishes didn't know me I wish for a dance floor I wish for kisses infinite Even if I never make it to three I want God to say she found me Flying on wet concrete You got what I need Take me for a ride down your boulevard You got what I need Take me for a ride on your handlebars You got what I need Take me for a ride down your boulevard You the moon and the see Take me for a ride down your handlebars
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Temple 04:37
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This is heaven Long as I got honey in my pot This is heaven Bees will come from Timbuktu Long as I got honey in my pot This is heaven Long as I got honey in my Don't lie to me I know what you want: honey Don't front on me I know what you got: honey Bees will come from Timbuktu Long as I got honey in my This is heaven Long as I got honey in my (Joseph) And I don't need a time to be me I'm always me I'm me oo la la la Should we get high? Honey, honey, honey Should we get ha la la la la (Lyrics include poem "About My Poetry" by Hazim Nikmet)

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released August 16, 2016

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SHIRA New York, New York

Electro-soul from Brooklyn NY.
Shared stages with TuNe-YaRds, Coco Rosie, and Mirah.
Music has appeared on NPR, multiple independent films, and national TV.

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