Name: The Keep
Duration: P00H05M22S
Description: This is the one track without piano - it’s replaced by organ - the same organ sound in different octaves playing different parts. This songs still brings me a lot of comfort. I listen to it and feel redeemed and safe. It’s the perfect closer.

The Keep

from The Keep by Lan Miao

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This is the one track without piano - it’s replaced by organ - the same organ sound in different octaves playing different parts. This songs still brings me a lot of comfort. I listen to it and feel redeemed and safe. It’s the perfect closer.

lyrics

He gave me a knife when I was a young girl
He said to keep it keep it near
I believed him as a young girl
I kept this knife I kept it near

It was so new and so it shined
It was so sharp and so fine
Cut through diamonds cut through stones
Cut through my skin cut my bones

He gave me my life before I was born
Gave me a plan gave me my future
Then he gave me this knife showed me how to hurt
He said to keep it so I kept it near

Cut through water and sky
Cut through pictures and time
Cut through diamonds cut through stones
Cut through my skin and cut my bones

I'm gonna take it out now
I'm gonna take it out now
I'm gonna take it out now
I'm gonna take it out now

You see
I’ve grown up and you've grown old (Cut through water and sky)
I’ve grown up and you've grown dull (Cut through pictures and time)
I expanded you're small in my hands (Cut through diamonds cut through stones)
I was so impressed you were all I had (Cut through my skin cut my bones)

I'm gonna take it out now (You said you said you said)
I'm gonna take it out now (It will never cut me and you)
I'm gonna take it out now (You said you said)
I'm gonna take it out (It will never cut me from you)
I’m gonna take it out

I'm gonna take it out now
I'm gonna take it out now
I'm gonna take it out now
I'm gonna take it out now

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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

lanmiaomusic.com

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