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Last night I lit the moon

by anna-anna

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Last night I lit the moon with silver thoughts to follow you I stepped over broken bones, saw the ghosts of bombs Climbed and climbed I fly with time Lunar surface is a field of dust Electric dust of space and sun I saw the earth from above Kept my ear to the ground Heard the moon tremble, Put gravity aside Last night I lit the moon with silver thoughts to follow you The sun reaches out to the moon And milks its silver mold then sure I would see you from high above The moon, silvery angel Reflects the light of the mightier sun Your body, moon crater Mirror of love Last night I lit the moon with silver thoughts to follow you And if a thread of silver touches you Thoughts, lit into flames cold flames shivering, shivering silver light if one day they’ll reach you, well they might it’s too late for memories I’ve burned them up for the light of silver thoughts to follow you
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Cat-eyes 03:21
Cat Eyes I’ve got cat eyes baby I turn ice into gold I’ve got cat eyes baby My laser vision will melt your love If love is anything it is a wish To make human what is cold To turn tears into warm blankets To turn ice, into gold I’ve got cat eyes baby I turn ice into gold I’ve got cat eyes baby My laser vision will melt your love If the powers of Greyskul were to grant me my wish of love I would have my cat-eyes made out of diamond-cutter knives I’ve got cat eyes baby I turn ice into gold I’ve got cat eyes baby My laser vision will melt your love For years I had myopic vision dreaming of the day we’d reunite Time had turned you into ice-cold stone At least that’s what I’d found If a thick layer of hurt were to harden you away from love I’ve got brand-new cat vision To break walls and make your heart grow I’ve got cat eyes baby I turn ice into gold I’ve got cat eyes baby My laser vision will melt your love
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Mirrors of America Mirrors of America Palaces of golden plaster Leaving the city of straight lines Breathing the dust of a golden age Buildings circumvent our movements Bodies move along lines of shifting shadows The city, cast in stone and concrete, Moves in predictable drones Mirrors of America Palaces of golden plaster What can be seen is already past What is “today” doesn’t match The speed and feeling of thoughts how I'm longing for an other life We look for cities to mirror what we are Mirrors of America Palaces of golden plaster If cities were made from images Of thoughts that hover There would be street palaces Made from golden plaster Our wet daydreams of great lasting happiness that will harden fast then break to pieces
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Tiny Feathers blue hummingbird of love Your feathers I gather Tiny feathers you dropped I’ll clip on to my makeshift wings flying lessons for home-made dreams On fresh mornings when lights appear I swear, I’ll have wings I’ll put on rings of silver I’ll fly closer to the sun To find you closer to the sun Wings will hold the weight of the earth My body is gravity-bound Fly away and disappear And high above will not be found I know the earth is just a ground You left traces in my mind I wish your presence were more than a sign I swear, I’ll have wings I’ll put on rings of silver I’ll fly closer to the sun To find you closer to the sun If you are truly a bird What do you see from above A still life of human longing Or honey orchids growing old but blue bird, aren’t you half-man I heard you were once a dreamer Jealous of tiny creatures who could easily seek and find fly away, I made my wings Wings I took from of you If it wasn’t for the feathers you dropped I would not know that to be human Is to dream that we’ll fly for love And do impossible things Life isn’t really what is seen It’s the perfume of happiness, in dreams. I swear, I’ll have wings I’ll put on rings of silver I’ll fly closer to the sun To find you closer to the sun

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New Band of the Day @ The Guardian on July 29th!!!

www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/29/new-band-anna-anna
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"This bafflingly brilliant Brazilian's 'sci-fi torch songs' sound like jungle music from a galaxy far, far away"
-Paul Lester, The Guardian

"...evocative of the great French singers of the sixties and seventies like Françoise Hardy, and other hand, feline and experimental...a collection of stylized songs full of expressionism, avant-pop textures and noir fantasies." -Felinno blog (*spanish translation my own)

"It’s absolutely stunning...This is a music that is completely its own... “Last Night, I Lit the Moon” is a subtle, but ambitiously bold marrying of human possibility and the concept album...As soon as you begin to build a picture of this fictive nom de plume, she disappears behind macabre melody, shadowy lyricism and unearthly imagination. These tracks come highly recommended"
- Their Bated Breath

"Lyrically, it's David Bowie meets Scott Walker: Anna-Anna's creations aren't just songs, they're poems that will take a breath or two out of you. The pieces in Last Night I Lit The Moon may come from a very personal place, but they also speak to the universal human experience. Perhaps the best way to describe her music is in her own words: "Basically the idea that we can re-organize "reality" according to our dreams, not the other way around ... the idea that music provides alternate models of existence that can be inhabited by anyone."
- NPR.org

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released June 14, 2011

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