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V1
This is your conscience calling
I think it’s time for a nudge
Forget what you sinned
Let’s see what you left undone
Chorus
Everything you might have been.
Is buried in your hesitations, fears, years, and sin
All the things you could have done
Are wrapped up in the maps of your daughters and your sons
So are you gonna pin it on them
To break down the walls that you’re too scared to climb?
Stalling all of your remaining days
Looking back at your tracks, just wasting your time?
V2
This is your past come forward
Screaming for the regrets
It’s time to knock down barriers
That are all in your head
Will you abandon all reason for a sliver of light?
Chorus x 2
Are you happy with where you are now?
Can you say that you lived your life?
So what are you going to do to somehow
Make it right
You know that second chances
Rarely fall in your way
Would you even recognize them
Staring you in the face
Will you abandon all reason
For sliver of life?
To feel that fire again
You can’t be scared of the light
So whatcha gonna do to make it right?
Chorus x 2
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Because I Slowed It Down
04:45
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Cataclism is not emiment
For this planet
Rotation is continuous
Please don't stop
Just because i slowed it down
I slowed you down
But rest assured i havent stopped you
Reorder cells
Orient myself and settle out
Cataclism is not emiment
For this planet
Rotation is continuous
Please don't stop
Just because i slowed it down
One single frown
Spreads to pain and searching open
Let me explain
To calm your hope; repair your mean
Cataclism is not emiment
For this planet
Rotation is continuous
Please don't stop
Just because i slowed it down
A little bump
But I'll keep it on its axis
A steady hand
To cauterize this bleeding wound
One worried brow
Perfect eyes are cast in shadow
A noiseless word
Smooths instant age, allows the light
I’m hanging on
By nails and determination
Looks easy I know
My smile is only for your sake
Cataclism is not emiment
For this planet
Rotation is continuous
Please don't stop
Just one pass through
Could never do it justice
That’s nothing new
But I know you hate to read
Cataclism is not emiment
For this planet
Rotation is continuous
Please don't stop
I slowed you down
But rest assured i havent stopped you
Reorder cells
Orient myself and settle out
Cataclism is not emiment
For this planet
Rotation is continuous
Please don't stop
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Marble Bag
02:56
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You walk it back
That’s not what you meant
Okay, I’ll hear you out this once
Marble bag
Hold it upside down
Raining thoughts roll under furniture
Meets your foot
Whatcha reaching for
Words roll your ankle?
Sand in your shoe
Kinda serves you right
Reminds you of your mistakes
We pulled you in
and threw you back out
You took sides with the tides to not be wrong
Marble bag
Hold it upside down
Raining thoughts roll under furniture
Meets your foot
Whatcha reaching for
Words roll your ankle?
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Circle slowly
Trace the patterns of your travels on suitcase
Unzip it slowly
It’s been sitting at the bottom of the ocean
I’ve been meaning to write you
Something of a deluge
Of imagined trips and hotel beds
Fragmented smiles and blushing asides
It’ll wait ‘til morning
Keep your lonely
I’ve weaponized my giant eyes to send a photo
I’ve got your lonely
I’m holding onto lifetimes in a bottle
I’ve been meaning to write you
It’s something of a deluge
Of memory spheres, a glorious mess
Hair in my eyes, you brush it away and say
It’ll wait ‘til morning
Forget me if you want to
Gauzy years won’t blur your face
A moment memorized, but nothing more to say
But It’ll wait ‘til morning
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Where You Found Me
03:16
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I am sad to say this shell is the only thing that’s left
Green and pink, pearlescent swirl, sure it’s pretty but it’s dead
I crawled out from the ocean. Made my way along the sand
I was headed toward the city when you put me in your hand
I was dying in your pocket long before
You got me home
I wish that you had left me where you found me
You stopped at all the usual haunts. Had a drink and had a laugh
I was gracious and demure, in the shadow of your friends
You showed me off, your little treasure. Precious token who can sing
Voice was sweet but getting sadder as I thought about the sea
I was dying in your pocket long before
You got me home
I wish that you had left me where you found me
All for lights
Beyond the moon on the waves
I’d be alive
If I’d stayed
You took me up the steps, scraped your key against my cheek
Unlocked a door but all I heard was a metallic sort of creek
Step pause and turn, you pulled me scared out of your coat
That’s where I collapsed upon the floor, clutching madly at my throat
I was dying in your pocket long before
You got me home
I wish that you had left me where you found me
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Coulda Been Worse
05:36
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It could have been worse
I guess
Pull me out of this hole
Wipe the salt off my dress
I could look a lot worse
But I know I’m a mess
When I’m fully composed
I’ll give you a call
What’s tolerable for tolls
Wasn’t tolerable at all
This is no place
for a bridge
I put it up take it down
I wrote the chords unhinged
When I’m fully composed
I’ll give you a call
What’s tolerable for tolls
Wasn’t tolerable at all
Take my cut
Ring it up
You owe me
You’re broke
I woke
With headache
Rum and
Frozen Coke
When I’m fully clothed
I’ll give you a call
What’s tolerable for tolls
Was not affordable
It’s getting kinda late
Interred
I’m recycling words
Differently inferred
I’m yelling in the dark
Why can’t you hear?
When I’m fully clothed
I’ll give you call
What’s tolerable for tolls
Was not affordable
Keep your words to yourself
Dear friend
But I should shut my mouth
I should hide my head
Should keep to myself
I keep talking instead
When I’m fully enclosed
I’ll give you a call
I’m closing the tolls
Til I’m no longer miserable
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Sarah Schonert Peoria, Illinois
Sarah Schonert is a Creative multi-instrumentalist & singer - writing, recording, and producing original pieces out of her
home studio in Peoria, IL.
Her style is rooted in classical piano, supported by electronic vsts, loopers, ambient washes, carefully crafted arps, and assorted instruments she has collected over the years.
She gigs w/ her versatile looper, stage piano, & vocal effect pedals.
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Sarah Schonert recommends:
Silence of the Second Voice
by Isotherme
Beautiful instrumental and spoken word collection by Isotherme, perfect for introspection and relaxing
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Strong female vocals and thought-provoking lyrics. I adore this album.
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Also Roofhare's companion EP to my own "The Kees Files," this an intensely interesting instrumental experiment, full of sounds & textures that you can't quite put your finger on.
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Monumental symphony masterfully blending East/West instruments, African-American spirituals, a Jewish ram horn, etc ambiently to reveal profound universal insights.
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Quix and Quandary
by Clay Monke
supported by 8 fans who also own “Conscience Calling”
...a sound collage of all your happy-drug dream mysteries... ...texture, emotion, melody, hiss, major, minor... (... reminisce...)
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Dramatic strings provided by the Prague Metropolitan Orchestra accompany Emika's yearning soprano.
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