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Ghost Rings: Live at New York Live Arts

by Half Straddle

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Hellock’s Brimbles like this place between the transitions in the air marks And it’s kind of like a gap year in an existential ruin So, yeah, it’s kind of metaphysical and the oldest bears are the rugs When you’re there you forget all about dumb things like fact-based idioms And you only think about nets to swallow whole You focus more on how we trick our hearts all the time Just admit it And how far your limbs go back to hug And all the ways to die which means all the things to love And reaching for that gold-eyed chipmunk and the moment that is never there anymore Is what we use to rise up Rise up Rise up Rise up Reach for the underwater hug The weirdest thing that happens here though is that I love it here It’s what we’ve always wanted And it’s free And you do, oh you do You get a spirit animal Ohmmm A weema-wamma Ohmmm A weema-wamma Ohmm weema wamma And it so could be real. And it so could be real. And all the darkness I can stand. All the darkness I can stand. All the darkness I can stand. All the darkness I can stand. Hellock’s Brimbles like this place Between the transitions
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Big Woods 03:30
We got a woodchip chip I feel your eyes We got a fine fine You take my size We got a cottonwood ball That’s the thing We got a leaf ball Make it ring ring ring We got a stream ball More and more We got a dropping ball I’m just not secure We got a grass ass Please wind me up Kick it like a Great Horned Prance like a duck Through ruddy reed and wood O’er each trodden path You went further than you thought you could It’s simple: Do the math 1 + 1 is Whoa 2 + 2 is Let her go 3 + 3 is Oh Yeah Right 4 + 4 Refract Your Light Do the Math Do the Math Do the Math (Repeat) In the Hollows of the Great Oak Know your rules In the Glades of the pedagogue Sharpen all of your tools Mmhmmm I can only control myself and maybe try for you I can only see myself and then look at two B is for big deal, latent devotion I for idle repression spread on like lotion G is to generate a force field at bay Thunder in thine sides Lightning ‘neath the saddles Slow, jump in the deep Surprise! Don’t need a paddle Just say Just say Just say Do the Math Do the Math (Repeat)
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There’s eight ways She said her lashes flicked down Mint in the glass Stirred round and round Sat right there Tried to take a pass But with my fur couldn’t grab the glass With my fur couldn’t grab the glass Deer gave me A kind a side eye then Like a sleek animal She did not bend Grabbed a slice in my jaw and gave it a tweak Grabbed a slice in my jaw but I was too weak Oh I was too weak oh I was too weak oh I was too weak oh I was too weak oh 8 ways to see us And 9 to die It’s all connected Happens when you cry 8 ways to find out And 9 to go It’s all linked And it happens slow Yeah yeah you’ll see It goes real low Yeah yeah you’ll see It goes so low Eh Eh This is what she told me This is how I knew We’re matter reduced As thin as sin Matter made O so thin O so thin See us, believe us And then you win Coming to know We existed right there Past tangles and confusions A dot past a care Spirit’s how you crush it Curving cross the floor If you step slightly out You’ll fully get more Step slightly out Definitely get more Time and space Expanded for this I’m so real, you’re so sure of it Then you come And then we’re here Rustling in your freckles Feeling in your hair Feeling your fears And making it clear Feeling that this feeling is the whole damn world And this feeling Don’t cause strife Cause this feeling Can be your wife Such revisitations Constitute a life Such revisitations Constitute a life Such revisitations Constitute a life Such revisitations Constitute a life 8 ways to disappear Two to hold If you close your brain and breathe The odds’ll let you know We tell it out All soft and clear This feeling is a whole world And you can be its wife Such revisitations constitute a life Such such revisitations constitute a life Deer gave me Kinda high-five then One with room to grow Small paws moving Through the air I lifted and reached And tried to care I lifted up then And felt the air (Repeat)
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Dear Map of the Area Dear edges Dear paper Dear pen Dear diary I’ll draw you Draw you Draw you A map of the area These are the trees I don’t know This is the section I forgot to see This is the sky for you Fat blue lake for me Row to the center Cross to the edge Row row row to the center Row to the center Cross to the edge Row row row to the center (Repeat) Cabbage on the balcony Can they see? Get the eggs from the hall Stand next to me (Repeat) You said I don’t show anyone You let me hold the key You said I don’t show anyone You let me hold the key The key The key This key is for a fur hand that can hold anything but won’t This key for all the boats Row row row row row row row To the center
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Two Gloves 05:20
This was your person before you were a ghost This was love before you knew about love This was my person before you were a person This was me when I wanted to be you I was your girl when I was still a girl This was you when I was trying to be me This was my person before you were a person This was you when I wanted to be me I was still a girl when I was your ghost This was you when I was trying to be me Come on, I need to know How could we have stayed And stayed in that moment So serious So much to say So young So laughing So nothing, no way No way No way No way No way Oh, we were so free We were so separate and so free How was that possible? How was that possible? You were my glove When I wanted one glove to love Two gloves Then it’s right there to wear Our nights were so long Our nights were so long Tell me everything you need to know Go slow go glow About feeling so small So small We’ll tear the light We’ll bear the light In this fraction of the night Eat the hate up like love Oh oh just wear my glove You were my glove When I wanted one glove to love Two gloves And that perfect deep down love It’s possible It’s possible We’re most awake in the dark That’s what you sent Even better than a call So deep and so steep Just sit back and fall Just fall, fall, fall Seemed like everything was known No choices to choose Thoughts and searching all An entire life to lose You were my ghost when I was still a girl That was something, you know Something, you know That was something you did I know you did You did Something, you know Something, you know Something Something you did You did You did You were my glove when I wanted one glove to love Two gloves And we eat your hate like love The ghosts are so strong Our ghosts go so long You were my glove when I wanted one glove to love Two gloves Awake, awake in the dark love It’s possible It’s possible
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Sarcastic and proud I don’t know if it was me or you But there was a person I know Sarcastic and proud Hmmm-mmm I am wild Hmmm-mmm I’m almost nothing Abducted by myself It’s daylight, it’s day Ongoing and wild I remember knowing Sarcastic and proud I felt like it too When I’m thinking of you I, I smell like you too Unnamable But I can give you everything Obliterate me But I can give you I can give you I can give you Everything Obliterate me Oh I am wild
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I Love That 03:25
A few, small tiny moments of soft touching that feels amazing Or when you’re tired one time when they take care of you It’s probably like the equivalent of doing a heavy drug which I’ve never done but for it’s addictive powers I can tell you about love about having another seal rub it’s nose on you About swimming for days knowing that another seal is swimming and thinking about you I can tell you stuff that makes you stronger that lets you forget Oh yeah Oh yeah I love that I love that Oh yeah Oh yeah I love that I love that Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh Let me tell you Oh yeah Oh yeah I love that I love that It all feels like a blur, when you were just right there when you were just right there I could have seen you Any time Any time Any time
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Not Here 05:09
Let’s let the rays of possible ideas Do their work Do your work Oh oh oh oh Just do it for me Do your work Just do it with me Not here Not now Never Doesn’t mean we have to say goodbye This idea seemed like a rectangle That I could not Ever know This idea seemed like a bad one I just had To let that go But here’s the thing Here’s the thing Here’s what it means When we sing Oh oh oh ohhhhh Oh oh oh ohhhhh I’ll spot for you If you stay for me But this is what we have Fill in who we are This idea seemed like a rectangle That I could not ever know But I bust right through the edges And let us grow And grow and grow This is moving alongside the shadows and candy Next to me This is letting possibility be in my skin And be so so so so far And the distance is the thing The distance is the thing Here’s what it means when we sing Oh oh oh ohhhhhhhh Oh oh oh ohhhhhhhh Oh oh oh ohhhhhhhh Oh oh oh ohhhhhhhh

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This live album is comprised of live recordings from performances of GHOST RINGS between April 24th and April 30th, 2016, at New York Live Arts in New York City.

GHOST RINGS is about Tina's real-life sister and a band they had as children; two made-up friends named Samantha and Shawna; Samantha and Shawna's Spirit Animals; and what happens when Shawna wills the universe to make her pregnant with Samantha's baby.

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released April 5, 2017

Lyrics by Tina Satter
Music by Chris Giarmo and Erin Markey
Arrangements, Musical Direction, Production and Mastering by Chris Giarmo
Live Audio Mixing by Jimin Brelsford

Lead Vocals/Samantha & Shawna: Erin Markey and Kristen Sieh
Drums and Text: Tina Satter
Keys and Vocals: Chris Giarmo

*"8 Ways to Disappear" and "Not Here,"music by Chris Giarmo. "Eight Ways to Disappear," drums: Chris Giarmo, keys: Tina Satter.

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Half Straddle is an Obie-winning, Brooklyn-based ensemble of composers, performers, writers, and designers that makes music, plays, performances, and videos. The company has shown its work in Europe, Japan, Australia, and the U.S. since 2008.

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