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Elevate

by Lyra Pramuk

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Elevate 05:08
i can't hate you because you are the universe and the universe is me and i am you delineating, decolonizing embracing the other, embracing your kiss is my speed your love is my drug i never expected to feel so relaxed to let down my guard dissolve in your arms collide with your particles drip in through your seams is this all just a dream?... i wanna be elevated i'm counting on you to lift me up i can lift you up too you don't know what to do? don't you worry my baby, i'm counting on you when you elevate me, i will elevate you you have your own story and i have mine but once in a while in the velvet of night, our souls intertwine you keep doing you and i'll keep doing me but inside my gut, i'll hold the soft buzz of your lips on my cheek your touch sets me free your gaze sets me free your look sets me free i'm a hopeless romantic you're a bit apathetic, but you saw me you saw me you saw me when he immediately sends you a picture of his d*ck it is an assertion of his power the power he has been expected to assert over others since he was a boy the power his fathers command him to assert or else fade completely out of existence this penetration of softness penetration of himself the cutting off of his flow standing disembodied over the body the network itself is seductive totally transparent, i am constantly being penetrated by information information all around me i am destroyed by information it finds its way through the walls surges through every orifice of my fleshy body breaks me up into pieces i will try in vain to reassemble there is no privacy only information, and being consumed by it i am not alone even in my bed tell me how i can give you my body when my body is always already being given through every channel, and in every context? tell me how i can lay my head into your chest without falling back into the torrent of your symbolic, digital narrative? tell me how to see you? tell me how to rescue our intimacy from this barrage of symbols this need to create a meaning out of "i" that totally consumes any consummation of a "we"? your kiss is my speed your love is my drug i never expected to feel so relaxed to let down my guard dissolve in your arms collide with your particles drip through your seams you have your own story and i have mine but once in a while in the velvet of night, our souls intertwine you keep doing you and i'll keep doing me but inside my gut, i'll hold the soft buzz of your lips on my cheek your touch sets me free your gaze sets me free your look sets me free i'm a hopeless romantic you're a bit apathetic, but you saw me you saw me you saw me

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Pitchfork review by Rachel Hahn:
pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/19122-lyra-elevate/

...

i can't hate you
because you are the universe
and the universe is me
and i am you

delineating, decolonizing
embracing the other, embracing

your kiss is my speed
your love is my drug
i never expected to feel so relaxed
to let down my guard
dissolve in your arms
collide with your particles
drip in through your seams
is this all just a dream?...

i wanna be elevated
i'm counting on you
to lift me up
i can lift you up too
you don't know what to do?
don't you worry my baby, i'm counting on you
when you elevate me,
i will elevate you

you have your own story
and i have mine
but once in a while in the velvet of night,
our souls intertwine
you keep doing you
and i'll keep doing me
but inside my gut,
i'll hold the soft buzz of your lips on my cheek
your touch sets me free
your gaze sets me free
your look sets me free

i'm a hopeless romantic
you're a bit apathetic, but
you saw me
you saw me
you saw me

when he immediately sends you a picture of his d*ck
it is an assertion of his power
the power he has been expected to assert over others
since he was a boy
the power his fathers command him to assert
or else fade completely out of existence
this penetration of softness
penetration of himself
the cutting off of his flow
standing disembodied over the body

the network itself is seductive
totally transparent,
i am constantly being penetrated by information
information all around me
i am destroyed by information
it finds its way through the walls
surges through every orifice of my fleshy body
breaks me up into pieces
i will try in vain to reassemble
there is no privacy
only information, and being consumed by it
i am not alone even in my bed

tell me how i can give you my body
when my body is always already being given
through every channel, and in every context?
tell me how i can lay my head into your chest
without falling back into the torrent
of your symbolic, digital narrative?
tell me how to see you?
tell me how to rescue our intimacy
from this barrage of symbols
this need to create a meaning out of "i"
that totally consumes
any consummation of a "we"?

your kiss is my speed
your love is my drug
i never expected to feel so relaxed
to let down my guard
dissolve in your arms
collide with your particles
drip through your seams

you have your own story
and i have mine
but once in a while in the velvet of night,
our souls intertwine
you keep doing you
and i'll keep doing me
but inside my gut,
i'll hold the soft buzz of your lips on my cheek
your touch sets me free
your gaze sets me free
your look sets me free

i'm a hopeless romantic
you're a bit apathetic, but
you saw me
you saw me
you saw me

credits

released May 15, 2017

written by Lyra Pramuk
produced by Kris Vango and Lyra Pramuk
mastered by Jeremy Cox
artwork by Alexandra Bondi de Antoni

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Lyra Pramuk Berlin, Germany

Lyra Pramuk fuses classical vocalism, pop sensibilities, performance practices and contemporary club culture in what can best be described as futurist folk music.

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