Carapace

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 4 by Rabbit Rabbit Radio

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This one’s about the complications of parenting and the emotional fossil record. A carapace is a protective shell. A turtle has a carapace. It’s the hard bits that make their way into the fossil record, but even the persistence of water can make change over years.

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Twist a whisper
round until it burns.
Hush your mighty whimper.
Hold it til it hurts.

Carapace.

Bury your loneliness.
Engrave it in the sand.
The slow stream of love beneath the floor
carves against the grain.

Carapace

I dissolved myself in water
in a dream that hardened when I woke.
I choked on air as solid as a block of ice,
preserving for all time the way you curl round my arm,
the fight forgotten for a while.

Carapace

Twist a whisper,
follow where it leads.
Follow underneath.

Take it back.
Take me back.

All of the softness melts away,
Carapace.
The shell remains another day,
Carapace.

credits

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 4, released March 2, 2018
Carla Kihlstedt - voice, nyckelharpa
Matthias Bossi - voice, drums, synth, piano
Jeremy Flower - guitar
Jon Evans - guitar, bass

Music by Jeremy Flower and Carla Kihlstedt
Lyrics by Carla Kihlstedt
Recorded at Sinking Ship Studios, KihlBossi Studios and Brick Hill.
Mixed by Jon Evans at Brick Hill.

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Rabbit Rabbit Radio Falmouth, Massachusetts

Rabbit Rabbit Radio is the song-spinning duo of Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. Collectively, they are founding members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat, 2 Foot Yard, Causing a Tiger, The Book of Knots, and Fred Frith’s Cosa Brava.

Drawing on their love of both art & folk song, industrial & improvised music and heart-wrenching balladry, their songs are raw, beautiful, sparse and rich.
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