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Both Ways Brighter

by Mae Powell

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1.
Light Beam 02:28
This time last year our front door belonged to 116 Baltimore Guest book full of thank you’s and love and “I’ll be back soon so don’t grow up!” Never met someone so much like me yes it’s true Sarah you’re a light beam in the photo that Jonah sent when we were spiders building our webs Things will always change I know Scattered in Peru and France and Redondo We get ice cream when we’re sad get passive when we’re mad but at the end of the day we hold our hands and know it’s gonna be okay Things will always change I know Scattered in Peru and France and Redondo but we’ve got Castro of the heart and Mission of the mind and whatever we miss there will always be a next time
2.
Let's Talk 02:18
No time for small talk Let’s walk, let’s walk, let’s walk Let’s talk beyond scale beyond fe or male Let’s talk beyond space beyond time Let’s talk in a rhyme Words between me and you There’s nothing I’d rather do than talk to you No time for small talk Let’s walk, let’s walk, let’s walk Let’s talk about magic and a dream that’s tragic Let’s talk about fairies and when things get scary Let’s talk about snacks and stoned hunger attacks Let’s talk about love, about sex, and what we wanna do next Words between me and you There’s nothing I’d rather do than talk to you No time for small talk Let’s walk, let’s walk, let’s walk and really really just fuckin’ talk
3.
I had a dream that we were all together in the tall grass wearing rainbow sweaters The sun was high and we were too and someone asked, “what can we do?” So I took your hand and I kissed your palm and said “Don’t worry baby, don’t get stuck in your head just Be Here Now it’s all you can do the past no longer serves you” If I run out of my house at 3 am with no socks on would you chase after me or be afraid that I am too far gone? If I’m stuck inside my brain will you be there to tell me it’s okay? If these feelings never end will you be there as a lover, as a lover and a friend? Because I know the only way the flowers grow is if you tend to them and I wanna water you
4.
Weird Dreams 02:59
Woke up from a fever dream Don’t remember what it means but you were there and I woke up crying Feeling alone Can we stop talking about our bodies? I mean i know we fit so well together but I’d rather be a speckled feather drifting forever How can I stop thinking of them when I think of you? How come when i walk down ocean all of the lights are blue and I am too? On a plane from New York City The plane crashes four or five or six times The pilot says it ‘cus a stoner got a hold of the controller Then I’m smoking weed in bed with THEESatisfaction and I got three snakes tattooed on the back of my neck When I wake up I try to figure out what these snakes mean Why are there two sides to everything but no one’s in the middle? Why am I stuck between overbearing And way, way, way, way, way too subtle? It’s cuz I’ve been dreaming Yeah I’ve been dreaming It’s cuz I’ve been dreaming way too much these days
5.
Magick Love 03:38
Can’t explain it though I know we’ve tried Too ethereal to materialize But I know, I know where it lies Somewhere in between your eyes and my eyes Magick love (x4) The setting sun reminds me of you Blue and pink and orange-yellow hues When I say, I say that I love you it’s really just the universe pouring love back into itself Magick love (x4)
6.
We got our car towed away and Tubbs came along for the ride The rainbow child in the passenger side Zoom in zoom out everywhere is the same but this place is looking extra beautiful today I wonder how things might change, oh how they change Broken down on the side of the 1 I recognize my privilege in this situation Drinking a beer while we wait with no fear Don’t you think it’s fucked I can feel safe in my car While people are arrested for the colors that they are? Don’t you think it’s fucked, don’t you think that it’s bizarre? I can smoke weed wherever I go but there are people I know, too many people, I know who are locked up forever for having an ounce once No one should be in prison for weed- scratch that no one should be in prison at all People over profit, people over all Don’t you think it’s fucked, don’t you think that it’s bizarre we’ve normalized oppression of people for being who they are? Don’t you think it’s fucked, don’t you think that it’s bizarre? We are the ones who’ll take care of us, we are the ones (x3) We are the ones
7.
Soon 01:35
Soon soon soon soon soon we will be in the same room under the same moon making each other swoon swoon swoon Make your flowers bloom and make love until we are in the tomb tomb tomb Soon, sooooon My mind dreams of you my body aches for you and my soul, my soul is with you you you you Soon, sooooon
8.
What's the difference between over here and over there when I can see you on my screen? I guess it would be nice, it would be really really nice if I could feed you a tangerine Scratch n sniff, scratch n sniff, scratch n sniff, scratch n sniff All of the letters you sent to me Your hands were on this little piece of paper and now the paper’s touching me Like being together in a dream Like being together in a dream Except in this one you can come home to me Picking you a bouquet of flowers but I know they’re gonna die within a couple of hours because I’m holding them too tight Clinging to the thought of unattachment cuz I know everything will change but clinging to the thought is still clinging to something the way that works is strange Tonight we’re together in my dreams Tonight we’re together in my dreams And when I wake up you’re lying next to me And when I wake up you’re lying next to me
9.
I think of you as, you as a yellow flower, flower You know I like to be alone but when I’m not alone I like to be with you It’s hard being so far away from Twin Peaks’ foggy grey all the way from Waterloo Bay So I’ll dream about your bed and reading poems about thoughts spilling from our heads feelings and pomegranates I think of you as, you as a yellow flower, flower (x2) So let’s get coffee and a newspaper read the comics section first and the rest from best to worst Cuz even though our country’s fucked and everything that’s published sucks we’re looking to change that with love Yeah, we’re gonna change that with love I think of you as, you as a yellow flower, flower a yellow flower
10.
Fuck I.C.E. 02:32
I am angry today at red, white, and blue I am angry at the things that you do You like to see us cry Claim freedom then put us down so you can thrive Oh no, we can’t fight hate with hate It’ll only make it grow But when it feels so impossible what can we do? Call your representatives Call your best friends Call your racist grandma and say, “I love you but something has gotta change no, these things can’t stay the same no, something has gotta change” This stormy weather’s been happening forever Fuck borders and fuck I.C.E. keep families together So many suffering with so much to say We’ve gotta raise their voice it’s the only way Oh no, we can’t fight hate with hate It’ll only make it grow But when it feels so impossible what can we do? Call your representatives Call your best friends Call your racist grandma and say, “I love you but something has gotta change no, these things can’t stay the same no, something has gotta change” No one is free until we’re all free (x4)
11.
Take a deep breath for me I never really appreciated my lungs ‘til the fire came Up in smoke How can the pomegranates grow when they’re choking on the remnants of the things that were left behind? It’s such a strange time, a strange time to be alive But that’s just it I am still alive I don’t wanna let the flowers die (x3)
12.
Catalyst 02:21
You are the catalyst to all my wet dreams and what we give might be more than we receive You told me that if I don't feel it, it might not be real I owe a lot to you, you always come through When the episode of Black Mirror fucks with me a little too heavy and I need to hold your hand ‘til it’s sweaty you’re right there right there, you’re right there Dodging a mental fight there My anxiety comes out only when I’m trying to be the only one sipping on some wine and when I push you away you pull me in I remember what I’m here for again You’re on my side, on my side, on my side I remember that it’s gonna be alright Remember that it’s just me and you at the end of the night And how come it’s so much easier to say sorry to a stranger on the bus Than it is to say sorry when I’m irrationally mad at you Always picking fights with you And how come the fire that burns brightest is the one that ignites when my past lives come and bite me on my cheek Every week we’re getting better And how come it’s so much easier to say sorry to a stranger on the bus Than it is to say sorry when I’m irrationally mad at you Always picking fights with you And how come the fire that burns brightest is the one that ignites when my past lives come and bite me on my cheek Every week we’re getting better
13.
I feel the pressure coming down on me to be who I told you I could be Looking towards my bedsheets Looking for answers in my dreams Unsure if I can do all the things that I wanna do before the day is new Wondering why I do this to myself I put my life up on the shelf just so I can sit here and rest my bones I just wanna be alone, just wanna stay at home How I long to be free Oh, I know we do it to ourselves How I long to be free
14.
Outro 01:43
I think of you as, you as a yellow flower, flower a yellow flower

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released August 20, 2021

All songs written by Mae Powell.

All lyrics by Mae Powell except lyrics on "Soon" and "Let's Talk" by Felix Talkin. Additional lyrics by Madison Decter on "Light Beam" and Mayya Feygina on "Between a Pillow and a Soft Space."

Produced and recorded by Jason Kick at Tunnel Vision in Oakland, California. Additional recordings by Ted Savarese in Millbrae, Sam Jones in San Francisco, Alec Kent in Monterey, and Cole Montminy in Oakland.

Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering.

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