Speak to Me - Live at House of Butter

from Live at House of Butter by Tattiana Aqeel

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This track opens with thank you announcements.
Then begins the song, Speak to Me, which I do not often play live, and you can hear the first-song-of-the-set trepidation in my voice. I like how vulnerable I become here.
It's a song about an experience of sadly losing a love and sprouting wings from the ashes of it.

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I walk the trepid line to find out where you are
I'd held back for so long, wanting to see the stars
But the stars, they never do fall into my arms like
Raindrops. Suddenly I'm frozen and
When breath begins I live again
And these new wings, I found them far from home
All I've ever known was swept up under me
Rainbows come and go
But it's the last you'll know when walking under sheets

When we went back again I knew I had been written
I was far from where you are. Far from you and your stars
I tried to make it be forever you and me, but baby that's not real
Not for life that I live
I hope that we can see the better of the two
That me should be to me and you should be to you
With all I've flown before my last note is still unwritten

Speak to me, speak to me from the depths of me
The depths of me where it's warm and dark
I can hear a pin drop
Speak to me from deep within I hear voices
My heart it beats and bends, bends like the leaves

However you have come to be
Whoever you have known
Whatever I have grown to be
Wherever seeds I've sown
I will bleed now. Time to be grown up
Whatever life I choose, I choose it with devotion
And finish what I do or else I would be foolish not to know
That what I can create with my own hands is good and I have made it
Along with the friends I've taken

Speak to me, speak to me
I have dreams to be, dreams to be free
While I'm traveling over hills and valleys
In the mountains where the air is sweet
Speak to me. I won't be tied down by the friends I leave
They'll understand when I have to believe
In sudden changes in the wind

Speak to me
Speak to me
Speak to me

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from Live at House of Butter, released July 19, 2018

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Marie Tatti Washington, D.C.

Tattiana is a singer-songwriter and food justice advocate from Washington D.C. Tattiana is committed to creating welcoming spaces for gay, queer and other people of color to unify through healing, art, and access to empowering resources. Recordings of her music are on Bandcamp, Souncloud, and YouTube. She makes music, raises cannabis plants, and practices breathing meditations. ... more

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