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Commonwealth of Notions Live Session

by RIKKI RAKKI

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Breaking Skin (Commonwealth of Notions Live Session) 03:15
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Telling me your secrets, I don’t want to know Follow in your footsteps, I don’t want to go there anymore We’re filling in the blanks and measuring our tone But I don’t want to talk about this anymore Just want to trudge along the shore And find some place to be alone Walking through the city, walking til it hurts Walking til the light’s out, so no one sees my curse, but which is worse? Shadows always in the background following me now The demon’s in the kitchen stirring up the first time we talked about it, There beside you crying on the couch Falling on the pavement, tripping up the stairs Spending all my paycheck to wash away my cares, but fair is fair Breaking skin again, but then it is such fragile packaging To hold a soul, when no one knows what all goes on below the surface Walking through the city, running through my mind Walk into the bar and no one is inside, but I don’t mind Brother’s on the phone and I’m spilling out my guts The conscience is a gun and I’m holding myself up To give my words and end this violence Or keep and introspective silence Falling in perpetual spiral And I don’t want to talk about this anymore And I don’t want to talk about this anymore And I don’t want to talk about this, and I don’t want to talk about this anymore
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Souls (Commonwealth of Notions Live Session) 04:58
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Lo and behold I have still got a soul A collection of selves made of heavens and hells Loosely arranged, bits of memory and space Just a series of moments, serious and strange Now be good, we’ve been told Gotta think about our souls But we’ve got teeth and gotta eat Just like all animals And I still love you And I love myself too Wandering this way in my old old age Making marks on a page, still insisting it’s my name Strange as it sounds, it’s all written in the cloud Don’t you fret, for the internet never forgets And I won’t forget you If you’ll remember me too Pieces of twine hooking your heart up to mine Through the years we’ve been pressing tin cans up to our ears Lucky to find something lovely as a vine Climbing trellis and brick, when we think it will not stick Each spring it reappears And I still love you And I still love you And I still love you

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Recorded by Rikki Rakki for Commonwealth of Notions on WRIR 5/27/22, mixed by Matt Luger. Special thanks to Shannon Cleary!

Cover photo by Em White, cover design by Erika Blatnik.

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released August 12, 2022

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RIKKI RAKKI Richmond, Virginia

Hazy-jangly, stargazey rock&roll from Richmond, VA.
Rikki Rakki is Erika Blatnik (vox/guitar), Matt Luger (guitar/keys), Andy Brown (bass), and Jay Kole (drums).

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