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Ashes to Ashes (demo EP)

by Claire Rivers

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serial killers and superstars- victorian queens and their vintage cars- vampires kissing in the dark- come on baby lets get all dressed up- come on baby lets go have some fun- death is a cold glove- but happiness is a warm gun- both hands hold me from above- hark the heroin angels sing- christ lives on in every junkie -hark the heroin angels sing- christ lives on in every junkie- small town sex icon- movie star magician- they preach the same laws but- nobody listens- there’s a smiling junkie and a gold laughing Jesus- they say we’ve spoke the truth but no one believes us- so just leave us- so just leave us- just us be- just leave us be- and we’ll keep cracking jokes since you cannot believe- you cannot see- you cannot see- death is a cold glove- but happiness is a warm gun- both hands hold me from above- hark the heroin angels sing- christ lives on in every junkie -hark the heroin angels sing- christ lives on in every junkie- We meet in the crossroads of our thighs- in silk sheets meet there almost every night- and when we wake up- we have the answers- death is a cold glove- but happiness is a warm gun- both hands hold me from above- hark the heroin angels sing- christ lives on in every junkie -hark the heroin angels sing- christ lives on in every junkie- And I’m killin’ myself in caramel cream- I lick the tips of arsenic strawberries- and I’m bleeding- consume the world with ancient eyes- a dark chocolate coated- sick sweet sacrifice death is a cold glove- but happiness is a warm gun- both hands hold me from above- hark the heroin angels sing- christ lives on in every junkie -hark the heroin angels sing- christ lives on in every junkie-
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Lavender and laudanum- oh you- thought I would have forgot- forgotten by now- but I- Still see it- on my drugs- and in my dreams- I’m not one to quick forget such sick schemes and sweet daydreams The prophet points his fingers- and the gypsy loads her gun- white doves are bleeding out into the setting sun- she stands on the shoreline- with stark red lips- and they shine like blood- like jewels -like stars in the abyss Lavender and laudanum- oh you- thought I would have forgot- forgotten by now- but I- Still see it- on my drugs- and in my dreams- I’m not one to quick forget such sick schemes and sweet daydreams Send shivers- send shivers- going down my spine- out into a lilac night- sin shivers- sin shivers- going down my spine and out into a lilac night I watch a white snake wrap around a red rose- down we go like dominoes- way down down we go- the garden sinks down into a silver rainbow mist- and opal tears are trapped within a constellation kiss Lavender and laudanum- oh you- thought I would have forgot- forgotten by now- but I- Still see it- on my drugs- and in my dreams- I’m not one to quick forget such sick schemes and sweet daydreams Send shivers- send shivers- going down my spine- out into a lilac night- sin shivers- sin shivers- going down my spine and out into a lilac night With a silver moon and cigarette too - we’re all going all going up in smoke- but with a sinister moon and a silver spoon- you know- somebody’s gonna choke At the edge of an arrow- at the tip of the tracks- cut yourself on sloppy stars and bleed till they take you back Lavender and laudanum- oh you- thought I would have forgot- forgotten by now- but I- Still see it- on my drugs- and in my dreams- I’m not one to quick forget such sick schemes and sweet daydreams Send shivers- send shivers- going down my spine- out into a lilac night- sin shivers- sin shivers- going down my spine and out into a lilac night Lavender and laudanum- oh you- thought I would have forgot- forgotten by now- But I remember everything
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"Ashes to Ashes" is the ending of a nursery rhyme and that of a shadowed time. Specifically, it is the beginning of the end- the first three words of the last line -of "ring around the rosie" (which was of course, a reference to the bubonic plague), and here we are again in plague to a degree, societal structures falling down. Tomorrow there will be a solar eclipse encased in a ring, not rosie, but bright white and fiery red. ++++ This isn't a particularly happy album, but the world isn't a particularly happy place right now, and so it is honest in timbre and I hope that some of you strangers and friends will find comfort in my macabre lullabies.

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released June 20, 2020

Mixing and Mastering by David Petty

Album cover shot by Hayley Jones

Lyrics, composition, guitar, vocals, recording, preliminary engineering, album cover editing by Claire Rivers

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