The Animal I Am

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 4 by Rabbit Rabbit Radio

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The Animal I Am

Snap back!
The heat stings like ice.
Time slows so we move faster underneath our skin.
Inside, the path is frictionless,
we slip again, no footing on this fictional device.

I chase your love, a bird, a deer,
my dear, I dare to hold my hand
so still and still you wince a tiny
tremor travels, chases you away.

Outside your fur stands on end.
Come back! Retract your claws,
hide your teeth in watering jaws.

I chase your love, a bird, a deer,
my dear, I dare to hold my hand
so still and still you wince a tiny
tremor travels, chasing you,
my breath betrays my body,
charged with love and hate and heat and sorrow,
hold my hand so still, and still you smell
the animal I am.

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from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 4, released March 2, 2018
Carla Kihlstedt: Voice
Matthias Bossi: Voice, Drums, Beats
Jon Evans: Bass. Guitar

Written by Matthias Bossi and Jon Evans
Lyrics by Carla Kihlstedt

Recorded at 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. ... more

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