Name: Pale Mother
Duration: P00H03M03S
Description: The is the last song I recorded for this project. The piano and vocal were recorded in the same take, making it the closest to a live performance. You can hear the noise of the keyboard but the emotions were perfectly captured I decided to use the takes anyway.

Pale Mother

from The Keep by Lan Miao

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The is the last song I recorded for this project. The piano and vocal were recorded in the same take, making it the closest to a live performance. You can hear the noise of the keyboard but the emotions were perfectly captured I decided to use the takes anyway.

lyrics

Can I ask you for a check?
I need to buy me a stronger bed

And I don't believe when you say
He should have paid for all of this

Can I ask you for a check?
I need to buy me a stronger bed

I had a dream
I woke up crying
You were a statue
Flying through
With your eyes opened
And a cartoonish look
You were part of the war
You fought and you killed

I was crying over you
Crying over my loss of you
I was crying, crying for you
How did I end up losing you?

And you don't realize
You count your fingers when it comes to us

And you don't realize
You count your fingers when it comes to us

And you don't realize
You count your fingers when it comes to us

And you don't realize
You count your fingers when it comes to us

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from The Keep, released June 24, 2022
Written, performed, produced by Lan Miao.
Mixed by Lan Miao.
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk.

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Lan Miao San Francisco, California

Singer-songwriter, piano-player, alt-rocker. Making music at the intersection of race, gender, Western classical, and Taiwanese Pop. she/her

lanmiaomusic.com

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