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Prayer

from The Keep by Lan Miao

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The chords - I wrote this one night at home while still in high school. My mom had turned to religion for comfort and would often leave me alone by myself at night. I was so hurt by it. The chord just repeats in C minor, barely peaking at F, G. I didn’t understand this until just a few years ago that the chord “progression” really ultimately reflected an emotional numbness. Things were so overwhelming that I couldn’t feel anything at all. But there were all these underlying conflicting emotions waiting to burst through in the chorus.

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You pray to your so called god
Try to make it better with all you've got
But has he ever told you to open your door
Open your heart and just listen to her

You pray for a better future
Or maybe just a better pay
You say it makes you feel so much stronger
Throughout the rest of your day

You with all the things you know
You and your sacred your holy book
You remind me of me when I was a little girl
Made believed in a supernatural world

So you pray to the god above
Try to replace the human love
You knelt down for so long you shut me out
And still things are falling apart

Snd still you pray to your only god
Bet you don't even know how much it costs
You think you're making up for the past
All the things that didn't last

But if he really wanted you to know
He would have definitely told you so
He wouldn't have to wait for so long
Wouldn't have to wait until it's all gone

Has he ever told you to stand up
Has he ever told you to come back home
Has he ever told you to give it some time
And take us as far as we can go
Has he ever told you how I feel
That things are so much better the way they were
Has he ever told you that he's up there
That he loves you now but he didn't before
And when everything suddenly changes course
Did you ever have to guess how much it hurts

‘Cause things are falling apart
Things are falling apart
Things are falling apart
We are coming apart
Things are falling apart
Things are falling apart
Things are falling apart
We are coming apart

Things are falling apart
Things are falling apart
Things are falling apart
We are coming apart
Things are falling apart
Things are falling apart
Things are falling apart
Things are falling apart

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from The Keep, released June 24, 2022
Written, performed, produced by Lan Miao.
Mixed by Jordon Silva.
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

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