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seen + unseen

by Soften

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1.
To Be Known 05:55
if you're feeling disconnected I'm here to plug you in and if you're standing on the other side I'm here to build the bridge (we're just passing through but if you're listening, we'll sing to you) I can be at home and be alone with you I can be alone and be at home with you (we're just passing through but if you're listening, we'll sing to you) O, my heart is glad to be known by you
2.
Snow 05:13
It was last December when we walked outside barefoot in the snow just to see how long we'd go And we stood on the corner while the cars were passing by when my eyes met your eyes and our laughter turned to quiet yeah I had no idea the grief I'd give to you And do you remember when you washed my feet with a bar of soap? (it was white as snow) and you kneeled in the bathtub worked the lather with your hands so tenderly as you said to me, "As I have been forgiven, so I forgive you."
3.
I run my fingers through your hair I'm listenin' but you don't wanna share I run my fingers through your hair but you're not there I lay my head upon your chest I feel the movements of your breath I lay my head upon your chest and feel the breath I press my cheek against the glass I'm needing but too afraid to ask I press my cheek against the glass ashamed to ask So I lay my head upon a stone No place to call my home I lay my head upon a stone I am alone So lift my singin' to the trees I hear them singing back with me I lift my singin' to the trees and feel at ease I throw my words into the flames they call me by a secret name I throw my words into the flames they know my name I toss my heart into the sea she always gives it back to me I toss my heart into the sea returns to me I lay my belly on the dirt I listen to the wounded earth I lay my belly on the earth and feel the hurt
4.
never thought I’d find myself here before drinking down some medicine, face on the floor thought I was a followin the ways of God but the room, it started spinning and I couldn’t keep up once there was a time when I believed in words but now I’d rather listen to the trees and the birds now let me tell you something you can understand I don’t need a conversation, no I need to hold your hand yeah you’re breakin’ my bones just to make me whole yeah you’re breakin’ my bones just to make me whole again so you try to say a prayer but all you hear is the ticking of a clock and your movements in the mirror yeah we’re talkin talkin talkin trying to make some sense but sometimes we’re cleaner/clearer if at first we’re made a mess yeah once there was a time when I believed in words but now I’d rather listen to the trees and the birds well let me tell you something you can understand I don’t need a conversation, no I need to hold your hand yeah you’re breakin’ my bones just to make me whole yeah you’re breakin’ my bones just to make me whole again
5.
Covenant 03:25
The veil has been parted for me but I’m still waiting on the sea oh, that saltwater sting for a gold rosy ring That which I longed for is now what I most fear but I just don’t think I can wonder/wander for the next forty years The curtain has been torn in two which once hid us from you now all is revealed in a humble man’s meal He drank for the covenant while we drank for the fun He broke bread for the covenant while we were loading our guns
6.
well it was once beside the river when you said you got a shiver in your soul and it may be a little while before I see a shining smile in your eyes you try to hard to make it happen but you withhold that you are trapped in your own mind but if it's love that you are choosing we must set fire to these illusions one by one one by one and I know you think you loved me but the truth is that in time instead of caring for my fruit you left me rotting on the vine and how my heart burst open like a grape all choked with twine whose hapless hope was that in being crushed I'd ferment into wine and how you tried to silence me with your fists into the wall and make me think that I was selfish if I defend myself at all well now my throat's burst open and the only thing that comes are the melodies left burning in the marrow of my bones is it real, the covenant between all things seen and unseen? is it true that two became one? (rib of rib, bone of my bone) how will I untangle my veins from you, if now one becomes two?
7.
See Me 07:12
you hide contempt with a smile but you’re serious oh, so serious your face is dim with denial it’s delirious so mysterious Just wish I knew what was true I thought by now you’d pursue me game of hide and seek hours into weeks but I’m left waiting and wondering you’ve given up on me given up on me just wish I knew what to do don’t even recognize you but what would happen if tonight, you looked me in the eyes? come out from hiding and see me but you look away pushing me away you’re either silent or screaming pushing me around shove me to the ground I can’t believe this is true don’t even recognize you but what would happen if tonight, you looked me in the eyes?

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released September 22, 2017

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Soften Cincinnati, Ohio

four-piece tender nuggets from cincinnati, oh

brianna kelly | jon delvaux | andrew aragon | corey waddell

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