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Clouds Electric

by Johanna Kunin

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1.
Mobius Waves 03:07
What is bigger than words Is bigger than choice Is bigger than us And what is bigger than we Let it open to you the way to remember We're bigger than the end And we can just let the world wash over us Without being washed away And what is bigger than love Is bigger than hurt Is bigger than us And that which pushes and pulls Also bubbles and curls your colors around you It spreads them out near and far To remind you, no matter how deep You'll always be beginning again Until the end
2.
Fireflies 03:05
Tonight the fireflies are turning out their lights Tonight the fireflies are learning The fireflies And in the dark they remember What it was like when we were one And before it's too late they have decided To go back And now my eyes come open I'm not afraid to be forgotten I won't be alone Just take me home Here within the sea of storms exploding in the night I feel you Your quiet wings and soft light Vanishing Oh, won't you tell me the secret folded up within your wings For before I awake I need a reason to remember And now my eyes come open I'm not afraid to be forgotten I won't be alone Just take me home
3.
Olos 04:38
I am not me I am you I am not me I am you But together we are we And together we are everything Everything Oh, when I look toward you (when I look toward you) I see a tangled forest (I see a tangled forest) Of things that come between us (of things that come between us) The forest is dividing us (the forest is dividing us) We must lose ourselves to cross it We must lose ourselves to discover one another Though it's slow going on ground that is moving Though it's hard Though it's slow going on ground that is moving Though it's hard to leave what is safe Until you do, you are nothing And every breath tells you so Tells you so A hand is just a hand And blood is just blood Do you understand? Have you been understood? A hand is just a hand And blood is just blood Do you understand? Have you been understood?
4.
Tread Softly 02:38
5.
Boat Song 04:11
I'm in a boat now The slow, steady current There's no land in sight Just an endless ocean There is nothing to do here But wait, but wait I do a lot of sleeping I do a lot of sleeping I live in dreams Dreams of underwater places Dreams where I'm out of sight But wait, but wait Now we're over the water Waves are trying to catch us They want to take away this feeling And as we circle Above the deepest place, you say, "Look closer" You say my name And I hear my voice everywhere And I see my face on every wave So how can I escape?
6.
Blueberry 02:42
Blueberry This is the color I don't want to dream Icy fingers In the dark water The dark water Blueberry This is the sound I taste it on your fingers Like girls in the summer In the dark water The dark water You leave a stain upon my hand Sweet sorrows I cannot mend For a blueberry is white inside But when it bleeds, it bleeds red Blueberry I'm on the ceiling I'm turning on the light To escape the feeling Of the dark hours The dark water
7.
Phantom 04:27
If I let go I am a wanderer Whatever pulls me close There I go And my life runs Like a dry river That has no power to pull And the wind is a dark voice I cannot hear And the air's a body I cannot feel I'm the spirit of what is now lost I could almost laugh All your buckets of tears And all your clouds electric They shatter every thought into fragments And turn every feeling into sand All but the spirit of what is now lost All but the spirit of what is now lost
8.
The city of the morning Shakes off the dreary purple night Shakes off the dust of fallen stars After they dissolve into the light Underneath this sky We are trying not to try Underneath these stars We are trying not to try To wake up The way this light is growing Reminds a part of me to shine Though I have no way of knowing Just what has happened at the time The way this light is growing Reminds a part of me to shine Though I have no way of knowing Just what has happened at the time Underneath this sky We are trying not to try Underneath these stars We are trying not to try Underneath these rooftops We are trying not to try To wake up
9.
Last night You were in my dream again I was dancing with a ghost in the rain He swore to be my friend His eyes were made Of poisoned amber And I believed him Because I wanted to Sometimes still I can feel Your headlights On the back of my head Those eyes Of poisoned amber Now I'm waiting Alone on this corner When the sky gets dark I wonder if you're near A hiss of breath Across my shoulder Sends a shiver through my skin I better go in Oh and sometimes still I can feel Your presence like a knife That pulls at my skin Again Oh, I better go in I better go in
10.
11.
Let's go back to the water Back into, into the bottled up spring Listen to, to the sounds Water grows out of bounds Listen to, to the water Listen to, voices in a bottle Flowers grow near my water Flowers grow by my sun and And they know what she's talkin' about They're right here when she opens her mouth And we're already listening, and we're Already opening up, and we're All ready, no more waiting No more waiting, wading through the water Through the water And it's already up to our ankles And it's already up to our knees And it's already up to our hips It's up to our wrists It's up to our shoulders To our shoulders Let's go back to the water Back into, into the bottle Into the bottle Into the bottle....
12.
Soul Secrets 02:44
I am Yes within me I know days in and days out Soul secrets are free I am If I What if I start over again

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released January 1, 2006

Produced, recorded, and mixed by Tucker Martine at Flora in Seattle, WA. Except piano tracks recorded at Other Room in Seattle, WA. Mastered by Roger Seibel.
Johanna Kunin - voice, piano
Other players: Steve Moore, Tucker Martine, Karl Blau, Eyvind Kang, Matt Chamberlain, Mac Martine, Lori Goldston

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Johanna Kunin AKA Bright Archer Portland, Oregon

Johanna Kunin's music is as hypnotic as snow falling on water, at once vast and muted, at once anchored and unmoored. She's also a prolific side-woman, having played in Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Loch Lomond, Laura Gibson's band, and more. She has also released music under the name Bright Archer. ... more

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