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WILD BEAST

by Hope Littwin

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1.
River 02:18
In the stillness of the water was it always this easy? Could it be I was pretending? Has it always been this way? In the stillness of the water All the memories you gave me Running through my veins, you swayed me Running through my heart again Now in the stillness of the water I find my hands are growing stronger To take the love that you are giving and roll it back just like a wave A River Doesn't Struggle
2.
When I’m lying awake in concentration I feel mind it, it floats away like some big blue sky takes me, they don’t mean to wake me but they do when I'm floating, I feel the weight of the world coming slowly they break me only if I hold on to all the memories I made out of you I'm the girl for you, I believe, do you? Black eyed raven, why you following me around? You know I love you, I wanna be right by you You take it all with a grain of salt cause You say were all just keeping our hopes up Till they come crashing down May as well just crash right now Black eyed raven, why you following me around? When I'm lying awake in conversation I cant deny it, I cannot hide it and I remember the way you trace my fingers-outlining eachothers I'm the girl for you, it's true Black eyed raven, why you following me around? Black eyed raven, why you following me around?
3.
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary Are you comin comin for me? I got a crust in my eye Holy holy holy Are you dirty dirty dirty I wana fly fly fly But I can’t get this pressure Out of my chest someone tell me why I am a bleeding machine oh yea, oh yea Some kind of sick injury that I cant understand Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary are you comin comin for me? I got a crust in my eye Holy holy holy Are you dirty dirty dirty I wana fly fly fly I wanna consume him But he wont let me in I wanna consume him But he wont let me in I wanna consume him But he wont let me in
4.
Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Ive been walking around on eggshells Across your angry mind Falling into some habits Im ashamed of-I close my eyes Now I am falling again I go down I go down For Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You All of My life I'm rolling around I'm holding in back, I'm hitting the ground I'm living my truth, I run into Im hoping you do but you don’t All of my life I'm holding my pride I'm finding myself, I'm seeing the light I'm holding on to, but then I find you Its clear to me that you don’t The whole world is post apocalyptic now Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You We had some hard times across the yard You were angry then too I find myself hauling the rest of the world Along, inside my womb The whole world is post apocalyptic now Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You Boys Who Don’t Say I Love You I'm Falling again I'm Falling again
5.
Oh my heart is wrappin up like a poster In the dark, I couldn’t recognize when it was over But where are you now? Now That I Need Your Sweet Distraction
6.
Forget your misfortune We've got so much now But you can be drug until the sun comes up
7.
He caught my heart wide open He aimed, I flinched, he clipped my wing His song floated through my window As I went spiraling Fly a kite into a hailstorm That’s how my heart was received I crashed in these weeds Oh captain, over, from the ground My hopes went up We got shot down The words were sweet from the receiver Now he's nowhere to be found I'd sell my head to buy his heart It was in the cards I wont ever be a fool again Like I was for you I wont ever be a fool again I wont ever be a fool Baby, you would be amazed by The fourth of July in my chest Lay, oh, soft against my window Soft against my skin so You can hear the rest In the backwoods of the twilight, patient star Screaming at the sky above you Like a crow in the dark I sold my head to buy his heart It was written in the stars I wont ever be a fool again Like I was for you I wont ever be a fool again I wont ever be a fool I wont ever be a fool again Like I was for you I wont ever be a fool again I wont ever be a fool Fly a kite into a hailstorm That’s how my heart was received Crashed in these weeds captain, over, from the ground My hopes went up We got shot down The words were sweet from the receiver Now he's nowhere to be found

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Experimental Songwriter/Composer/Singer, Hope Littwin, layers Acoustic Folk, Classical Art Music, Jazz and Electronics to create a new, raw, Electro-Acoustic Chamber Pop.

Artist Statement:

"I wrote a set of songs, dialogues between myself and the animal inside that rears its ugly head when someone I love betrays me. When someone I lust after refuses me. When I am alone with myself and, trembling, left to confront my beast nature. Unruly, destructive and ravenous.

The feminine beast has an ancestral wound of injustice woven into it’s sinews that incites an ancient rage. It howls, it scratches, it is cruelly and methodically ignored, prematurely pacified, fearfully abandoned. I sat with this beast for two years and let it speak. I watched it take over my body and mind in fits of dark nights of the soul, unquenchable desires and all consuming fits of rage. I couldn’t find a way out so I made a way through, not in spite of, but in solidarity with my inner beast.

No answers here, just presence, inquiry and steadfast solidarity.” -Hope Littwin

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released August 2, 2017

Vocals/Guitar/Piano/Electronics: Hope Littwin
Bass: Jon Nadel
Drums: Blake Jiracek
Piano: Hana Fugisaki
Trombone: Bryant Smith
Oboe: Jen Gardner
Violin: Mallory Linehan
Cello: Jeremy Seeman

Mixed by Hope and Robert Littwin
Mastered by Hope and Robert Littwin
Recorded by Dylan Oakley and Victoria Salazar at Tribeca Flashpoint
Produced by Hope Littwin
A&R: MBM

All Songs Written and Arranged by Hope Littwin
© Hope Littwin 2017, all right reserved.

Album cover artwork by Aemi Kato-Cuarezma

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Hope Littwin New York, New York

American composer and Music Producer Hope Littwin grew up in dance and theater before she took to music, first as a singer- songwriter then as a classical singer and now as a composer and music producer. 

Hope’s compositions fuse chamber Music, Free jazz and Electronics.

She is currently pursuing her PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University.
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