Name: Sweep Us Away
Duration: P00H02M45S
Description: The lyrics for all of the songs on this album are sourced from Pema Chödrön’s book, “When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times” using a technique of word curation and poetic excavation called erasure.

Sweep Us Away

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 5 by Rabbit Rabbit Radio

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The lyrics for all of the songs on this album are sourced from Pema Chödrön’s book, “When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times” using a technique of word curation and poetic excavation called erasure.

lyrics

If they could simply let a bit more light return,
I’d find the spoonful of truth in the ordinary world.

Built right into the instructions:
seat, legs, torso, hands, eyes and mouth.

Sweep us big sky,
sweep us away again.

If I could simply let a bit more light return
I’d die over and over again.
Tell us clear how we’re completely made of breath.

Built right into the instructions:
seat, legs, torso, hands, eyes and mouth.

Dance a dance about rage,
rage about loneliness,
a dance about time...
Sweep us away into big sky
again and again and again and again and again...

Sweep us big sky,
sweep us away again.

credits

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 5, released May 30, 2020
Matthias Bossi: Drums, Rhodes, Synths, Beats, Backing Vox
Carla Kihlstedt: Voice
Jeremy Flower: Guitar, Synths
Jon Evans: Bass, Guitar

Written by Matthias Bossi and Carla Kihlstedt
Lyrics sourced as erasure poetry by Carla Kihlstedt from Pema Chödrön’s When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times.

Recorded at KihlBossi Studios, Sinking Ship Studios, and at Brick Hill

Mixed by Jon Evans at Brick Hill, Orleans, MA

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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. ... more

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