What's in your head
You're a sunny daydream
I'll waste away
Future
Hold me
Stripped down like wallpaper
Your hands feel so cold
Orange, green, and me
Sunflowers, hide and seek
But I wanna know where to go to
I wanna hold the face I know
I look better in the morning looking at you
Why are you staring at my eyes next to the river
I'm losing you X3
I'll follow lack of reason
And worthless excuses
You could fill the landfill
Every thought
What soothes your youth
Is teasing and burdens that hurt you a lot
Orange, green, and me
Sunflowers, hide and seek
But I wanna know where to go to
I wanna hold the face I know
I look better in the morning looking at you
Why are you staring at my eyes next to the river
I'm losing you X3
Help me please I'm trying to hard to find
The right words to say
I wish you'd stay lately I feel like I'm losing you
Our time went to fast too soon
I'm losing you X3
Na na na na na na na na na na na
I don't want to be here anymore.
It's not about me or you.
It's about the overwhelming loss of perceptions and how the colors can make us crumble like paper.
Ripped, shredded, so far gone that we can't even see the colors anymore.
I don't want to be here anymore.
I don't want to be here anymore.
After all the imaginative, illuminated cuts
I'm emotionally bruised as all I can hear anymore is you're unattractive.
I am the paper people I see before I sleep.
Hush me to sleep inside the tunnel that is full of my scare.
My nightmares.
My dreams.
Teach me how to be someone you'd hold.
I'd intertwine in your music, its entirety, its fold.
I don't know how to make it without blue, without you
His eyes tell me that it could always be new, he's so soon
The orange green was a waste of time, but now
I'm losing the blue that soothes my mind
As the time we feels goes by, I'd like the voices to whisper
Something that is so sweet
Teach me how to be
Someone you'd want
Someone you'd hold
You are the whole
Melancholy cold
Losing you I'm known
Time to let you go
I don't know how to take care of myself, without your help
The further you push me away, I lose myself
Without myself I cannot find the remedies, it's how I am
I'm lost in a distant dream that has more than centipedes
As the time we feels goes by I'd like the butterfly, the full bloom
It all could be so sweet
Teach me how to be
Someone you'd want
Someone you'd hold
You are the whole
Melancholy cold
Losing you I'm known
Time to let you go
about
Statement from Mikki:
Meeting new people at college, I've learned a lot about myself and in many ways lost myself and my identity several times through negativity in my life that seemed positive at the time. Through songwriting I've been able to identify those moments and people through colors. I hope you enjoy the journey I've created from the the "orange green" and the "blue." Part 1 depicts the melancholy circumstances of a new love that will never grow. The poem that separates Part 1 & 2 is the moment of recognition that I had understanding I had to be stronger than the war I was fighting within myself from allowing the relationship I had with the "orange green" to affect me. Additionally over the summer, I allowed an individual's words, the "blue," to consume me to the point that I became depressed and anxious when I would perform any time my Sophmore Fall Semester. After a moment that I thought was special, they told me I was unattractive and I relied on this person, as a friend, to be a huge support system. I couldn't be more hurt. With sorrow due to current events, I convey that my lyrics in Part 2, "Teach me how to be someone you'd want, someone you'd hold," hold an unsettling betrayal, because I most definitely do not want to be held by the "blue." I was naive to believe this person was a healthy individual in my life and that they could bring me happiness. A new addition to Part 2, an idea of our engineer's is the piano at the end. For me, it stands for the hope of new beginnings and forgiveness. Lastly, I want all of you to know the reoccurring saxophone (played by Peter Behr) stands for me finding myself as a person again, going back to my childhood learning saxophone at the age of 5. In hardship, my saxophone and music in general has been my go to when coping.
I hope that Losing You Part 1 & 2 brings out an emotion different for any listener and that they can relate in different ways.
Vince, Dom, and Mike have been three of the most biggest supporters in my endeavors as an artist and I hope you can appreciate their musicianship throughout the art we have created together Fall semester.
I couldn't thank Nick Kochanek more for all the time and effort he has put into Dipped.
Special thanks to Dan Bennett for being a true friend and making my vision come alive through graphics constantly. Much love and appreciation.
credits
released December 25, 2017
Songwriter: Mikki Krall
Arrangers for Part 2: Mikki Krall & Mike F. Keiper
Vocals: Mikki Krall
Guitars: Mikki Krall & Vince Osborne
Piano: Mikki Krall
Bass: Dominic Stumpo
Drums: Mike F. Keiper
Saxophone: Peter Behr
Group Vocals: Kaitlynn Pelletier, Gabby Giarratano, Hannah Gale, Eric Boyd, Casey Kelly, Sam Weaver, & Mikki Krall
Tracking and Mixing: Nick Kochanek
Mastering: Cody Esposito
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