On the Saturday morning this was written, all these feelings bubbled up to the surface and jumped out of my fingertips into the computer. I saved the project folder as “RIP Friday,” because it felt like some part of me had died the night before. I was a lizard who had shed her skin in the night. This skin had been a translucent layer, a layer that covered up my true essence. It tried to disguise me, to fit me into a mold that I thought would please him. This layer was preoccupied with how others viewed me. It served only to sabotage me by covering up the truest essence of my being.
I shed my skin in the night. It crackled and crunched between my toes in the morning when I stepped on it. From then on, I didn’t need that skin. Only the mind, body and spirit that live in harmony underneath.
lyrics
I will never be your bathtub madonna
Resting in between the flora and fauna
Pulling out my knife to carve me a new name From this moment on I swear I’m not the same
Stay still, visions from my window sill,
Inside the body experiences got me
Feeling like a brand new human and I want to
Run away with the moon, I’ll be back by next June
Xrus
Let’s take stutter steps, I’ll readily accept your offer,
Cause it isn’t often, that I see you around
These parts, welcome to town,
We’re our own surround sound, show me how you get down
Xrus
What’s a prima donna?
Is that a good thing?
Roll the windows down and give me a new name
credits
from The Gravestone Feel EP,
released February 14, 2017
Written, produced and mixed by Lillian Frances
Mastered by Garrett Bevins
Trumpet by Aaron "Hype Man" Shaw
I still remember the first time i heard the first track on this album, Unlucky Skin. The album is a beautiful, beautiful compilation that inspires my music daily. Lillian Frances
The first time I heard this album I loved it. I immediately went back and listened again. And again. The textures are elaborate, the melodies exquisite, and the Empress herself musical royalty. Lillian Frances