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Snakepit

from Moonstone & Tar Sands by Leila Adu

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    1. Moonstone
    2. Life Matters
    3. Negative Space
    4. Sky
    5. Book
    6. Snakepit
    7. Tar Sands
    8. Gold Yod
    9. Summoning You

    All music and lyrics written by Leila Adu
    Leila Adu: piano, rhodes and voice Jon Toscano: bass
    David Frazier: drums
    PUBLIQuartet:
    Curtis Stewart: violin
    Jannina Norpoth: violin
    Nick Revel: viola
    Hamilton Berry: cello
    Dylan Greene: percussion
    Jacob Bills: drum pad and voice
    BW020 leilaadu.com
    Produced by Paul Geluso and Leila Adu
    Recorded by Paul Geluso, Ernesto Valenzuela,
    Parichat Songmuang and Leila Adu
    Assistant Engineers: Kevin Kopczynski, Maharath Sinha, Farris Sepulveda, Jerry Xu and Paulina Dixon
    Mixed by Paul Geluso
    Mastered for vinyl by Adam Boose at Cauliflower Audio Executive Producer: Leila Adu
    Photography by Rodorod.com
    Back Cover photo courtesy of Roulette Intermedium
    Album Cover Design: Andrew B White

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lyrics

I fell into a snakepit
Filled with forked tongues and dead eyes
I get a sense of déjà vu
Everywhere minds are colonized

Imagination is good
When reality kicks you in the teeth

There’s no room for sad eyes
Me and my love we are soft
No forcefield for the world
A permeable foil

Imagination is good
when reality kicks you in the teeth
Thoughts and feelings are just food
when the news is real, it’s not what you feel

There’s a place for people like me
You can go and complain together
Heard a watergirl in Accra
Say “you have to work” to another
Let’s talk about what’s good in your life
Or what’s bad and you’ve realized

There’s a place for people like me,
you’ll find us in a room talking
I’m gonna sign out of my accounts
so that I can be held to account

A web of kindness still exists
It’s in the smell and touch of night air;
it’s in the sound of rushing water
like the blood of your veins in your ears

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from Moonstone & Tar Sands, released April 4, 2024

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Record label collective from New York and Philadelphia releasing diverse noise, art-pop, improvised and notated music since 2014

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