Orchestrate

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/ Slow Bloom / Installment No. 5
* album coming end of may *
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lyrics

used to always orchestrate it
to run into you, to run into you

emotion’s somethin’ crazy, ain’t it?
honey, we can’t disprove what it makes us do

you're the conductor, i'm the strings
to your every move resonating
first chair in your grand symphony,
last one facing the melody
of how I wanted you ; oh how I wanted you

hating myself for twisting, turning
losing out to every yearning
trying to be something you might want
every note in every second,
every beat in every measure
playing to an audience long gone

so I'm leaving your orchestra

too many years I stayed in orbit
always circling, circling
around a magic false and jaded
oh such a brilliant sun, hard as I tried to run

you're the conductor, i'm the strings
to your every move resonating

hating myself for twisting, turning
losing out to every yearning
trying to be something you might want
every note in every second,
every beat in every measure
playing to an audience long gone

so i'm leaving your orchestra
oh i'm leaving your orchestra

o wait - play back the tape, go all the way
now notice in the opening scene,
who's making moves from the very beginning
was you who spotted me,
set up the board, every chess piece
and lured me into your fantasy
yeah you . . .

you, ya used to always orchestrate it
you, used to always ( used to always )

and i hated myself for twisting, turning
losing out to every yearning
trying to be something you might want
every note in every second,
every beat in every measure
playing to an audience long gone

so i'm leaving your orchestra
oh, i'm leaving your orchestra ~
o i gotta leave, i gotta leave
i got to leave

i'm leaving your orchestra

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credits

released May 5, 2020
Words and Music by mesmi
Performed, Produced and Mixed by mesmi
Additional Production by Albert Chiang
Piano by Steve Solomon
Mastered by Carl Saff

Photography by Janis Yue
Art+Design by VATOCA
©℗ mesmi x music (ASCAP)

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the pansy: remembrance, to consider, free thought

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