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Tar Sands

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 take it with me, A bubble of black gold,
a voodoo sack to go, god willing
Country-sized holes in my life
Friends are all I have to show,
beacons of light n’ muddy soles

Drilling into tar
sands and bloody war
Nuclear bonds
NAZDAQ guns
Child is gone,
deal is done

I’m going on holiday
Gonna sunbathe my troubles away
So my pen, can cut a page again and move on,
I bathe in music today to wash the pain away
Eyes are peeled like an onion skin, no surprises

Button up your mouth for what I’m about to say
Stupidity is a silly word but pride and vanity go a long way
I’ve seen the coward in the mouth of the wolf
And the fear and the blame
Kindness starts only with the self
Care for the mind every day

Drilling into tar
sands and bloody war
Nuclear bonds
NASDAQ guns
Child is gone,
deal is done
Separated from Mum
Ignorant business men c*nts
screwing up planet earth
for more genocide births

I take it with me A crownful of black dignity
I look at you from my throne in the clouds and fly on
Starving seraphim babes,
with their cherubim graves
We fly on Jimi’s waves

And the cholera knaves
While you design death games
We fly on Jimmy’s waves
We fly on

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from Moonstone & Tar Sands, released April 4, 2024

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