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We Are Doomed to Carry On Anyhow

by elssa

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1.
Empathy 0 25:22
I Sighs of the sea II The Deluge III Ravens keep coming back IV The Star, The Lighthouse and The Scut of the White Rabbit V Awaiting darkness That instant that cannot be forgotten So empty sent back by the shadows So empty rejected by the clocks That poor instant adopted by my tenderness Naked naked of blood of wings Without eyes to remember anguish of old Without lips to gather the juice of violences lost in the singing of frozen belltowers. Shelter it you girl blind of soul Give it your hair scorched by fire Hug it you little statue of terror Show it the world convulsing at your feet At your feet where woodswallows die Trembling in fear of the future Tell it that the sighs of the sea Dampen the only words That make life worth living
2.
var client = new WebClient(); var postEmpathy0 = new EndlessValueCollection(); postEmpathy0.Add("postTrack2Endless", "postTrack2Value"); byte[] responseBites = client.UploadValues("https://elssa.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-doomed-to-carry-on-anyhow.", setenforceMayEveryoneLiveAndMayEveryoneDie, postTrack2); rope response = Encoding.UTF8.GetRope(responseBites); // (417) Expectation Failed.
3.
I Up II Watch how it all slips out of your hands III Down All is lost all is lost all is lost all is lost In the flood in the drought in the wind in the frost But the rock that ties us to here and now Oh, we are doomed we are doomed to carry on anyhow
4.
Woe, begone! 22:45
I Our hands in the dream II An ape in a cage III The work is slow and full of doubt IV Forming, dissolving / Becoming, giving up When I left the king I began to rehearse what I would say to the world: long rehearsals full of revisions, imaginary applause, humiliations, edicts of revenge. I grew swollen as I conspired with my ambition, I struggled, I expanded, and when the term was up, I gave birth to an ape. After some small inevitable misunderstanding, the ape turned on me. Limping, stumbling, I fled back to the swept courtyards of the king. "Where is your ape?" the king demanded. "Bring me your ape." The work is slow. The ape is old. He clowns behind his bars, imitating our hands in the dream. He winks at my official sense of urgency. What king, he wants to know. What courtyard? What highway?

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We Are Doomed to Carry On Anyhow

1. Empathy 0
I Sighs of the sea
II The Deluge
III The ravens keep coming back
IV The Star, The Lighthouse and The Scut of the White Rabbit
V Awaiting darkness
2. Error 417: Expectation Failed
3. We Are Doomed to Carry On Anyhow
I Up
II Watch how it all slips out of your hands
III Down
4. Woe, begone!
I Our hands in the dream
II An ape in a cage
III The work is slow and full of doubt
IV Forming, dissolving / Becoming, giving up

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released September 30, 2019

Recorded at Hodila Records, Valmiera and Baron's Boudoir, Riga in June, 2019 by Ģirts Laumanis and elssa. Mixed by Jānis Emīls Katinskis. Mastered by Ģirts Laumanis.

elssa:
Aleksandrs Barons – drums;
Arnis Kalniņš – electric guitar, electric organ;
Jānis Emīls Katinskis – bass guitar;
Marģers Zālītis – vocals

and featuring on Empathy 0:
Kristiāna Kārkliņa – vocals / backing vocals

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