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All Princes, I

by Esmé Patterson

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1.
Last night so sharp was feeling so tender were our lips and hands, in your arms all sound was light, all was joy and all was love, so my young man don't make your mind up yet won't you look into my heart and see that all of my blood is still red the light from the moon and all those words left unsaid oh my young man come lie down in my bed and don't you make your mind up yet night is long and we forget that the earth beneath us has slowly turned and in the still movement of sleep we have also turned, so my young man... when you're the sun and i'm the land give me all your fear and fire when i'm the moon and you're the waves i'll make you move as i desire my young man...
2.
All the Days 02:35
All the days crowd around her darkness on the heels of light by pain the heart learns, dear darkness on the heels of light the chains that love wraps around you light is heavy sometimes long before i ever met you you were on my mind and if i ever met a heart that's true it's inside of you
3.
Jessica 02:04
Jessica, I hope it’s true that he had to break my heart to learn how to love you. Falling in love is easy, he tells you you’re the one, you don’t have to believe me, but he said that to me once. Jessica, the world is cruel. He had to be untrue to me before he could be true to you. The wheel keeps on turning and there’s no wrong or right, and I’m not quite trying to warn you or tell you how to live your life, but Jessica I hope for you that by taking all I had he learned how to give to you.
4.
I indicate that you might have a jaw made of glass and I’ve begun to notice a thin, hairline crack the hum of a low-flying plane fills the room, silence blots out silence as I start to lace up yer shoes And i ask the dark of the empty doorway, has it come to this? Soft like birds with wings of linen, your memory circles round time is heavy, weighed out, measured, thick though void of sound the tick of the second-hand fills the room, And silence blots out silence as I sigh and lace up my shoes I ask the dark of the empty doorway, has it come to this? And a sigh fills the space between the tips of our toes, silence blots out silence with time still as if it had froze And I ask you standing there dark in the doorway, has it come to this?
5.
You & intro 00:54
6.
You & 03:17
For you are sharp and clean, You’re beaming brightly. A flash of color as seen On a bird in flight, for You are soft and wild Like the tunnel of night That promises dawn That holds the howling stars. And you fit well into The spaces made by curves bones And also on the places where The blood is closer to the skin, for You are soft and wild Sleeping with the waves Under the sea and the sun Under the howling stars. And maybe if our veins instead Held only water and light Well then the heart wouldn’t have to work so hard, for You are soft and wild Like a spring unwinding Like clouds evaporating Like a school of fish retreating
7.
chamomile-colored sun pours in through the windowpane you and i a loaded gun, we watch the day evaporate the way that i love you is buried in blood afternoon softens and the air smells like snow names and faces turn to sand and we must forget all that we know the way that i love you is deeper than flood fall asleep, steal away, lay your head down next to mine, dream and keep my heart so safe deep within your glowing frame, for the way that i love you is thicker than blood
8.
cold rain, easter sunday bluebirds diving from the city trees garlands of plastic bags are waving from their branches the air is wet and thick and somehow also thin and clear in the cold with the birds trilling, the grey sky, new green blades of grass and in the spring one forgets that nothing that we love can stay (it's so easy to forget among the flowers) but maybe some things can stay just because we love them and because we love them when they die it's only half a death... alive and well an imprint of you is warm on my memory in your egyptian cotton suit with your easter sunday eyes: bright and cloudy all at once and eternally new
9.
you were born on a day of flood the pier was sunk and the water kept rising and all through the night your mother fought then you swam out, never crying, oh you the swimmer, and i'm a bird in the sky you were born with your hands rough and with a heart that's clean and strong and i was born dying with a heart familiar with flying oh you the swimmer, and i'm a bird in the sky and a bird may love a fish but where will they live? you were born in a thunderstorm that struck the land, rolling from the ocean, and i was born in october through the color and the cold the sun was shining oh you the swimmer, and i'm a bird in the sky
10.
Aquarius 02:39
you carry water, but you don't drink you've been quiet but now you sing and i wish for you all that you want and all that you need, skies of blue, my friend, fair winds and following seas most of us only live in our dreams but you've been swimming to the source of the stream and i wish for you all that you want and all that you need, skies of blue, my friend, fair winds and following seas i can't build you a ship to sail away on, i can only build you a song but the heart is a cousin of steadfast polaris, for everywhere that you are, darling you're home and i wish for you all that you want and all that you need, skies of blue, my friend, fair winds and following seas
11.
i've come so far and it's gotten me nowhere, guess you can't outrun the past. My shoes are worn for i won't tread lightly and it all moves so fast, with my arms 'round the sky i cannot embrace it wind on my lips but i can't taste it i'm gaining on sorrow though i don't chase it, i'm keeping my eyes on the horizon from sun up to sun down there's only highway makes you feel too big and too small in the morning i'm a beggar with hands overflowing by night a queen with nothing at all with my arms 'round the sky... sure, i've got a home, but it's not where i lay down when we are apart, oh what do you with the hole in your chest when you give somebody your heart? with my arms 'round the sky...
12.
No Heat 02:23
don't come looking with blind eyes, with your hands grasping at me. if you've come to take then fill your pockets, but it won't help you to see. i'm hiding away like the sun through the winter like the moon through the day no heat, all shadow dirty feet on my wooden floor snowstorm almost quiet each still moment is a ringing note living while it's dyin' just like me i'm hiding away like the sun through the winter like the moon through the day no heat, all shadow while we lie and drink our wine the sun in it's glory grows i'll be yours and you will be mine through the february snow
13.
past the sun's great western gate, past the land of dreams where the heroes and the noble hearts rest their feet beneath the poplar trees go west my friend, past the river encircling out to the fields the color of lightning, color of gold where those who kept their oaths, who kept their hearts clean, they crown their hands in flowers from the shining trees that grow by the sea go west my friend, past the river encircling out to the fields the color of lightning, color of gold you always bathed in your own sun, you slept 'neath your own stars. when you laid down in the shade, the bird were singing, and this is their song: go west my friend, past the river encircling out to the fields the color of lightning, color of gold
14.
i hear you breathe from down the hall and i feel your footsteps though they're not very loud i see your dreams with my slumbering eyes and i share your fear as the storm descends and though my hands are full, it's not enough i'm not content to fall asleep inside love if i were the praying type i would pray to your crooked smile or the freckles on your arm is there a better place to store my faith than in your skin? and though my hands are full, it's not enough i'm not content to fall asleep inside love let's find a place to rest where there is no noise, except for the wind bowing the beams, a place to sleep where there are no dreams except for the echoes of far-away things. and though my hands are full, it's not enough i'm not content to fall asleep inside love
15.
Light of Day 03:56
in the light of day only light doesn't fade memory has never been my strongest suit but i swear that i can recall some dozen versions of you, for in the light of day only light doesn't fade there was a time when we were so young there was a time we were so wild there was a time when we made up our minds didn't we darling? but in the light of day only light doesn't fade every man that you've ever been i've been in love with him i fell in love with your picture, i fell in love with your name, i fell in love with your flame that promised and promised to burn up all of my fear for me, but in the light of day only light doesn't fade

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released November 19, 2012

All songs written by esme patterson, copyright 2012

All songs:
singing, acoustic and electric guitars- Esme Patterson,
drums- Ben Desoto

My Young Man
Electric bass- Eric Thorin, harmonies- Nathaniel Rateliff, Genevieve Patterson, and Sarah Anderson, violin and cello- Carrie Beeder
All the Days
Electric bass- Eric Thorin, violin and cello- Carrie Beeder, harmonies- Genevieve Patterson
Jessica
electric bass- Jason Hecker, electric guitar- Roger Green
Broken Jaw
electric bass- Eric Thorin, synthesizers- Eric Moon, trumpet- Joseph Tabano
You &
strings arranged, conducted and mixed by Tyler Ludwig
Fall Asleep, Steal Away
electric guitar, twilight zone effects- Roger Green, piano- Stelth Ulvang, electric bass- Eric Thorin, harmonies- Genevieve Patterson
Easter Sunday
Piano- Eric Moon, upright bass- Mike Fitzmorris, bird calls collected by Mario Casilio
The Swimmer
Upright bass- Mike Fitzmorris, violin and cello- Carrie Beeder, harmonies- Will Duncan, Genevieve Patterson, Sarah Anderson, piano- Eric Moon, trumpet- Joseph Tabano
Aquarius
electric guitar, twelve-string, sunshine- Roger Green, violin and cello- Carrie Beeder, upright bass- Mike Fitzmorris, harmonies- Will Duncan
Sun up 2 Sun down
electric guitars- Roger Green, piano- Stelth Ulvang, upright bass- Mike Fitzmorris
No Heat
Violin and cello and string arrangement- Carrie Beeder, upright bass- Mike Fitzmorris
Elysium (for Jack)
electric bass- Jason Hecker, electric guitars- Roger Green
Asleep Inside Love
Upright bass- Mike Fitzmorris, violin and cello- Carrie Beeder, harmonies- Genevieve Patterson
Light of Day
Piano and synthesizers- Eric Moon, electric guitar magic- Roger Green, electric bass- Jason Hecker

All Princes, I was produced and arranged by Roger Green and Esme Patterson.
Recorded at Mighty Fine Productions in Denver, CO
mixed by Mario Casilio, Roger Green, Esme Patterson and Colin Bricker
Mastered by Colin Bricker

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esmé patterson Nashville, Tennessee

Esmé is a musical chameleon, constantly changing, but her oeuvre keeps a heart-centered core due to profound lyrics and inventive sounds. A world-class songwriter, producer and singer, with two Gold Records, reviews in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, New York Times, to name a few. She's performed her original compositions all over the world in venues such as The Ryman, The Fillmore, and Red Rocks. ... more

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