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Eris DeJarnett and Nick St. Croix - dreamer​/​/​precipice

from WEAKNESS by Eris DeJarnett

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dreamer//precipice is a love song, a reckoning, a looking back at the beginning of something special. I've been fortunate to work with Nick St. Croix, my partner and collaborator, to create a soundscape representative both of where I am as a composer and where we are (I think) as humans.

If I'm being honest, though, this piece was his birthday present. He might not get to perform it live for awhile (thanks, COVID), but it was important to me that I find a way to realize the sounds and the thoughts while they made sense. So, in many ways, this was the driving force behind WEAKNESS. I'm so glad it worked out this way.

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Some days, I like to think I saw you coming, even though I know that's a lie. There were maybes, could-have-beens, moments of "maybe if I'd been ready." But they lived in that corner of my mind of impossible dreams, of maybe somedays, of moments of "if I ever get the chance." But time and space are not kind, so I guarded my heart.

Some days, I know I could have seen you coming, because when I was watching you, you gazed back. There was laughter and the odd late night; there were moments where you'd give me a piece of yourself like I was supposed to have it all along. But you lived with the impossible dreams, the maybe somedays, the "if I ever have the chance"s. And time and space are not kind, so I guarded my heart.

I've never been the kind of girl who's courted and swept off her feet. The only loves I've had have been the ones I fought for. And maybe that's why the dreams stayed dreams for so long.

Some days, I know I should have seen you coming. Because you're a dreamer among the impossible dreams. My could-have-beens are your might-bes; my maybes are your probablys. And there are still moments where you give me a piece of yourself like I was supposed to have it all along. And time and space are not kind, so I'm sending a piece of me with you.

Some days, I like to think I saw you coming. Because now I listen to this one song over and over and over, and the only thing I can match it with is you.

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from WEAKNESS, track released August 7, 2020
Nick St. Croix, bass trombone
Eris DeJarnett, voice/fixed media/mixing/mastering

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Eris DeJarnett Washington

Interdisciplinary narrative artist working with music, text, and movement currently based in the Pacific Northwest. I write a lot of music about relationships between people, both positive and traumatic. ey/they.
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