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Letters I Won't Send

by Genevieve Dawson

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in a lovely 6 sided card case printed on recycled card in the UK, with artwork by Canadian Artist Trevor Kiernander and full lyrics of the album. First 100 signed by Genevieve.

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1.
Mountain 06:26
foolish me, I thought you’d gone finally by the lake, I hear you say my name as a mountain holds an echo deep inside of it that’s how I hold your voice, like a song I can’t forget understand, my heart is mine again emptied out of every ‘I love you’, we said aloud as a mountain, holds an echo deep inside of it that’s how I hold your voice, like a song I can’t forget I cant forget I won’t forget as a mountain, holds an echo deep inside of it that’s how I hold your voice, like a song I can’t forget
2.
I can’t sleep, I’m thinking about you I’ve done everything that you’re supposed to but you’re there like the stars, like the Spring you’re the sky, you cover everything counting sheep for hours, writing it all down letters I won’t send just have to get it out get it out of me how to get it out? get it out of me I talk to the dark, she swallows the words quickly I need someone else to make sure that I’m real but the bed opens out like a field I miss all the ways you made me feel counting sheep for hours, writing it all down letters I won’t send just have to git out of me get it out of me at least the madness comes as quickly as it leaves
3.
Tight Lips 03:43
Tight lips, holding in secrets, the sounds and the stories that i’d like to know I wish i could be restrained like you, hold in the thought that you’re the source you’re the source of the river in me big hands, hands to move mountains, could I lay my head on them, would they keep me safe I wish you were open like I am, then I would tell you, you’re the sea You’re the sea that is rising in me steady eyes, eyes that can hold mine, don’t look away yet, what do you see do you see the ocean behind them, the ocean that’s carrying moving me You’re the ocean that’s carrying me
4.
Garden 05:12
I wish i could talk to you like this every day hear those waves they're crashing down like every word we say I put your smoke to my lips, think how close i’ve been to yours every crack and every curve, I have known them, I have known them you have changed yet you’re still the same, I can feel that string tied round my waist into you, cause you know everything, everything but this is what you needed, so i will cut down every shoot that i have held in my arms to keep a garden just for you, just for you look at all the flowers in bloom look how long I held on to you look at all the flowers in bloom look how long i held on to you all those days into one all those years
5.
I don’t know you anymore I used to think you had swallowed the stars may my heart always be open to little birds, that are the secrets of living even though i see you standing there beside her, I know I was real too. I know I was real too may my heart always be open may my heart always be open
6.
The Hospital 02:46
I know the worst of you, i’ve seen you in your darkest hour staring down the black dogs, standing in a hall of mirrors what do you see there now? Is that a man you could be proud of? Is that a heart full of love? Is that a heart full of love? The hospital made us put the flowers, out in the hallway after dark I think they thought the pollen of spring would make you sick And I stayed awake all night, fearing irrationally that you would die from something they missed inside And the birds fly up from the roof singing none of this can be true none of this can be true none of this can be true
7.
I know what you are you’re not the tide, you’re the wind blowing me about, tearing me limb from limb I thought we were safe, I thought you’d carry me always you pull up the earth, you toss the ground in my face but you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now chewing up the dirt something has died in my chest something I held for you, buried deep in my breast you take what you want then talk as if it was nothing as if you didn’t know my heart was in your hands burning but you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now you can love whoever you like I no longer think of you as mine you can love whoever you like I no longer think of you as mine
8.
If you give me your heart I’ll carry it slowly I won’t spill any of the love that you’ve been holding time is on our side, so don't you try to fight me if you give me your thoughts I’ll chew over them so slowly won’t let any of them go on the wind that we’ve been blowing time is on our side, so don’t you try to fight me so come pick me up tell me how you have been feeling and I promise you that I will listen to anything time is on our side, so don’t you try to fight me If you give me your heart I’ll carry it so slowly won’t spill any of the love that you’ve been holding time is on our side, so don't you try to fight me

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The debut album from Genevieve Dawson, recorded entirely in a self built studio in a church. Described by BBC Radio London as "really beautiful music" and championed by Tom Robinson and Gideon Coe on 6 Music, this highly anticipated album is a collection of gently woven goodbyes, carefully crafted and arranged to create richly textured landscapes which Dawson's voice soars above. For lovers of Joni Mitchell, Laura Marling and Alice Coltrane.

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released September 25, 2020

Recorded by Rotem Haguel and Rick Leigh at St Luke’s Church, London, 2018.
Mixed by Rotem Haguel
Mastered by Noel Summerville 2019

Artwork painting, La Fenetre I, by Trevor Kiernander
Artwork design by Martin Rowsell

All songs written by Genevieve Dawson
Genevieve Dawson piano, vocals, acoustic/electric guitar
Rick Leigh flugel horn, trumpet, backing vocals
Danny Trouton drums
Huw Bennett double bass
Chelsea Carmichael saxophone
Meg Ella cello
Flora Curzon violin
Tomáš Kašpar additional electric guitar
Lloyd Haines additional drums, percussion

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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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