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Sapphire (2016)

by Alexis Penney

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1.
Sapphire 04:34
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we were born light cool blue cold fire burns me burns you in the sky feeling high cold call on the line and he needs me don’t know where I’ll find him don’t know where he is and he needs me don’t know where I’ll find him don’t know where he is sometimes startled by where you are will a tone resolve your mind will your mind resolve desire will the crying prophet quiet and they need me the men that lay beside me the men that let me in need my body a kind of idol worship a spiritual next of kin look up high or look inside your blue eyes are all I see you’re a myth but you exist in me sleep it off play it cool touch me smooth touch my jewel in the sky in my blood are you an ocean show me love touch my blues prove you’re you Coyote come to me I beseech your mystery touch my blues prove you’re you Michael I am on and you are too Sapphire
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Litany 03:40
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Ashera  Ausera Aphaia Astoreth  Tara Ceeridween  Kibele  Hipolyta Anackira  Matrona Ishtar Inana Amaterasu Kuanyin Rhiannon  Epona  Eileithyia  Freyja  Gingira Kali Isis Ariadne  Athena  Athalia Maria Regina  Artemi  Minerva Ragana Diana Baba Yaga  Zemyna Devi Adi Laima Austeja  Zveruna Varima-te-takere  Gayatri Nuakea Hekate  too many names they try to say  they don't remember  but I don't believe it  Lady of the Snakes  the Queen of Heaven Queen of Pain  wanting nothing  being everything  every mother every tree  spirals dancing too slow  to see 
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Eddie Jones 04:11
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me and Eddie jones we got a weird thing going I don't have a home because my heart’s been broken he can't take me home because his Mama's always there got a man around and daddy's in the sky somewhere  turtle on his arm he says his life is changing always all the time the sky is always changing  standing on the rooftop took my love into his mind eyes like night and teeth like snow our boy is out of time  I like the island Manhattan  but all I see is you and me I never had a vacation ooh California running away run away from the pain ooh now I go to find my name ooh California running away run away from the pain ooh now I go to find my name missing Eddie jones I couldn't take him with me sky is changing cold I had to quit this city pink fur lady walking call me baby everywhere  they don't know my name can't meet my gazes anywhere  angel in the snow I feel my life is changing back to county roads it’s just my body changing every man the same  in shadows like my baby’s eyes someone call my name  someone understand my style 
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The Soul 04:49
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every single person  has got a part of the Soul you try to think you're separate  but we're all a part of the whole the preacher in the window  five fingers pray to The Man  each with five faces  they think they're in on the plan blonde Shiva  church singer  believer  no secrets  she sings of rivers  she wears her silver  cries to her mother she is a river they say “Oh Great spirit. Hey won’t you grow out my hair?” you’re praying then you're punished  but it's all in your hands  you’re weaving when you're signing  though you never sew you’re worshipping you're cursing  a country you never chose  do a good deed you ask for something you’re asking for something in return do a good deed don't ask for nothing  asking for nothing in return 
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Nikhil 05:02
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your sane your sanitary interest your mind and I’m a prophet witness we’re here to help you not sane I’m vain I’m stealing kisses I know you’ll take back to your Mrs. already missing you you, you walked away I threw the apple but I called you a snake I, I’m at your feet they call you saint but you just wanna play you said “whatever, man” your body strong you wanna crash it you lost your car you hate your parents I know they hurt you an angry god the child is guiltless the king of pain the hooker priestess I wanna save you you, you walked away I threw the apple but I called you a snake I, I’m at your feet they call you saint but you just wanna play it’s the end of the world everything hurts let it all go now peace on earth it’s the end of the pain from death to birth letting go of the lightning peace on earth you are not your pain you are not your pain
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Athame 03:44
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your mom she called me  before your birthday  she thinks The City  It ate her baby  I tried to tell her  how you loved her  The City made you  made you Her baby  ah ooh namah shivaya The Knife is easy  but ink is heavy  my brother leaving  The Snake is waiting  wet faces shining  your band is playing  the lanterns flying  The Jade is sharp ah ooh namah Shiva ya Shakti Shiva now you're tripping on angel wings Cassie says you're a bird again  but it doesn't matter   world is changing  everything dies  every blessing a curse the same The Knife is easy  but I can't take it  I never take it cuz it matters  people can fly everything dies
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Lamentation 04:15
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gray sky burned to ash fires echo last  Wind’s memory thirty days you're gone every day the first  since you left me  planes hang high like toys carbon, diamonds, soil  you’re a part of me every color mourns when I'm wearing your clothes I feel you here  leaving candles burning  you said I’d know  I can hear the ocean  you said I'd know  I built my heart into a home that you burned down on a Friday night alone in an empty bath tub I share your bed now  but I'm alone I let my anger go  long ago but I wanna be mad  all my lamentation I let them fly away  keep flying away 
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Litany (Reprise) 02:20
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Maria Regina Diana Asherah Gaia everything is real I know what I’m doing I light blue candles for the ancestors I have a blue light bulb in a broken desk lamp it lays above the shrine to you sometimes I light it when i’m getting down sometimes I shake like the fuilmanet in a bulb shakes to make light kundalini the snake body shaking they say is the nerves realigning circling back spiral arms outward I read that nerves are ancient and plastic which doesn’t mean like how it sounds we’re all plastic now sex is a part of all of it the house is you the room is you the spirits watch me fuck in pools pricked myself on a half dead cactus she’s languished here for years half alive which were we then the summer when we first met the summer when you left I named her that first day but could never remember what to call her she is pangea Gaia New York
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Tunnels 05:24
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dirty white tunnels tired people green letters they died long ago golden halo  rats, friends  find her keep her  fine asses  crack and oil  sweat, incense  torches, candles  attention or lust  I lost my mind  I have no answers I just keep sitting here right where you can see me even though you're looking at the girls  looking at the girls  I lost my mind  I just keep screaming  I couldn't keep her  you have to see me even though you’re looking looking at the girls  looking at the girls  looking at the girls  cops in kippahs  ancient temples  see a ghost  death came also  by sin, a rose  say hello  snakes, singing I'm Orlando  an Indian, a Coke  outside, dark cold  down here, too warm  waste and bones  don't judge the ones you love the most don't spurn the slave to save the host don’t curse the bug beneath your shoe it could be me I could be you I walked around my corner walked underneath the stairs pile of wet glistening trash hulking beside me rats dashing back and forth across my path pretended like they were my friends as if I would ever I lost my mind I have no answers I just keep sitting here right where you can see me even though you’re looking looking at the girls looking at the girls I lost my mind I have no answers I just keep screaming I couldn’t keep her even though you’re looking looking at the girls looking at the girls
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The Book 04:39
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I read your book watered your garden planted stories about you  and us  all over dark wet ground and watched it grow  into a forest  til’ it blocked out  all the sun and I sound of the  world outside and  the people we know and you and I  It's a miracle I survived  I read your book  taught you to pray  taught you to write  I held your hand  we are the same  now I walk behind  I met another man and then another and another  called you Father Man  I mothered you all  on beds of leaves  sleeping at my side  the wind says no  you’re angry at night  your cities bleed  by electric light  hungry bodies  covered in lines  sell the darkness  own the light  you think you have it all but you have nothing you say you hold the truth the sun and moon  and I should walk behind  I don't fear the truth  the world your noose  your truth is a lie  sons who fear the Fallen One  the Evening Star  afraid to die  I can see the Truth  we are the same  I set you  on fire 

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Sapphire is my second full-length album, recorded between 2013-2016 in New York City, NY. Much love and thanks for listening <3

Sapphire
Alexis Penney

Production: Michael Beharie
Mixing/Mastering: Martin Crane

Guitars, Bass, Keys: Michael Beharie
Drums: Yahotei
Backing Vocals: Colin Self, Mehron Priestess, Image Object ("Sapphire" only), Michael Beharie ("Lamentation" only)

For Grant, Nikhil, All The Michaels, All The Mothers

I Sapphire
M. Beharie/A. Penney/J. Crewe

II Litany
M. Beharie/A. Penney

III Eddie Jones
M. Beharie/A. Penney

IV The Soul
M. Beharie/A. Penney

V Nikhil
M. Beharie/A. Penney

VI Athame
M. Beharie/A. Penney

VII Lamentation
M. Beharie/A. Penney

VIII Tunnels
M. Beharie/A. Penney/J. Crewe

IX Litany (Reprise)
M. Beharie/A. Penney

X The Book
M. Beharie/A. Penney

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released December 25, 2016

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