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What's Mine Is Yours

by Genevieve Dawson

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    Featuring the singles from Genevieve's 2023 EP, What's Mine Is Yours - 'My Mother's Rage' and closing track, 'Made from the Earth'. With artwork by Ilme Vysniauskaite. Very limited run.

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1.
my mother…
my mother’s 
my mother’s 
rage is sleeping in my mouth i know what you did to her
and all the women that came before her 
i carry her body on my back 
and my mothers rage is sleeping in my mouth under water green and salted 
is the child that lost her softness
now my own tongue is double-pointed
and my mother’s rage is sleeping in my mouth my mother’s 
rage is sleeping in my mouth
2.
i've been listening out for signs 
i've been watching the stars at night
 and i don't think they know i'm here 
if i were to burn so bright, i wouldn't pay any mind 
Take me, take me with you I'm not from here, I was born under another sky
 Take me, take me with you
 To where the moon is blue 
and the mornings heal all of your wounds 

I put my hands in the earth take a pocket of ground for luck
 i'll grow forests in the sky 
far away from the raging fires we light

 Take me, take me with you I'm not from here, I was born under another sky
 Take me, take me with you
 To where the moon is blue
 and the mornings heal all of your wounds

 You don't know you have home until you can't go there anymore

 Take me, take me with you I'm not from here, I was born under another sky 
 Take me, take me with you 
To where the moon is blue
 and the mornings heal all of your wounds


3.
I want to move like a tide coming for the shore 
I want to get pulled out and not know where we are 
I want to move like a tide coming for the shore 
i want to get pulled out and not know where we are don't be an anchor we can both jump over board 
I don't want your comfort, i want to feel the cold I like to think about all the lives i’ve lived 
I start to panic when i think this might be it
 cause I want to move like a tide coming for the shore 
i want to get pulled out and not know where we are
 don't be an anchor we can both jump over board 
I don't want your comfort, i want to feel the cold I want to move like a tide coming for the shore 
never own anything never belong to anyone but myself, but myself, but myself just like the land which feeds us all it was never ours to conquer 
give it back to itself 
you can’t own what was
 never yours
4.
nothing you can do, nothing you can say can change it
 so you read the news, find snakes are hiding everywhere you look

 what's mine is yours, we never really knew it til now though 

 and it all comes crumbling down so easily 
the best that i can do is ask you to hold on tight to me, and i'll hold on to you 
I'll hold on to you what's mine is yours, we never really knew it til now though 


5.
These eyes can only take you so far
 my skin knows what i was taught to ignore
 the lungs of the trees are breathing in
 The ground we hold is speaking 

These words can only answer so much
 why no one saw, why nobody stopped
 how can you be bad when you are made from the earth?
 now the moments come, can you forgive yourself? 

.... 

This ground this dirt this field where we lie
 it's holding me outside of any time 
how can you be bad when you are made from the earth? 
now the moments come, can you forgive yourself? 

... 


about

What’s Mine Is Yours is about our interconnectedness, my rage, feeling afraid in the face of things so much bigger than myself, and wanting to pull everyone I love towards me and hold them very close. During the pandemic I kept thinking that all that really matters is our ability to love and take care of each other - everything else fell away.

Musically the EP snakes and swirls its way through entangled textures - I wanted an opportunity to arrange everything myself from start to finish, to create halls of stacked vocal harmonies, and explore new electronic soundscapes - mostly with a Korg minilogue I was gifted for my 30th birthday.

I’m grateful to Alexander Painter for playing cello and clarinet on this and making my dreams of that richness come true. Jake Long played the drums on the EP with dirt, energy and heaviness.

Many women formed the voices of My Mother's Rage - we recorded them in Woolwich foot tunnel at midnight. You can see them in the video for the song too.

Callum Haynes co-produced and engineered the EP from his rooftop space in Woolwich where we watched the birds and the city far in the distance.

I put my heart in these 5 songs and I hope you'll take them into yours x

credits

released May 26, 2023

All songs by Genevieve Dawson
Produced by Genevieve Dawson and Callum Haynes
Piano, synths, electronics and voice - Genevieve Dawson
Drums and percussion - Jake Long
Cello and Clarinet - Alexander Painter
Mixed by Callum Haynes
Mastered by Noel Summerville

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Genevieve Dawson London, UK

Genevieve Dawson is a songwriter whose music thrums with jazz-inflected rhythms of her adopted South-East London home, and a directness and warmth brought from her upbringing singing folk songs in Scotland.

described by BBC Radio London as ‘incredibly beautiful music’ and loved by Radio 6 Music, featured by Gideon Coe and Tom Robinson on the BBC Introducing Mixtape.
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