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Circles & Hands

by Laura CK

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1.
Coping Skills 02:21
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Drunk She is drunk tonight A futile way to cope with the lack of her lover’s form She had no game plan Only following the urges of her body The guilt had set in And in pain she spoke of how she had betrayed Found love, and then she'd thrown it all away She had the nerve to ask if they would stay For a while This rope we've woven bound our arms We laughed off threats of future harm Actually let us explain And never trust again And after some years spent alone With regret she did atone In her heart love she did see And maybe she might be worthy This rope we've woven bound our arms We laughed off threats of future harm Actually let us explain And never trust again Drunk She is drunk again A futile way to cope with what her lover’s done to her She saw it coming Only following the urges of her conscience Then came denial And in pain she heard of how she'd been betrayed Found love, and then they'd thrown it all away They had the nerve to ask if she would stay For a while
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Emergency Exit 02:38
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There's a hole in my chest Cause there's no other way the love could get out And what you need from me You can take for yourself Just reach right in and take what you need Cause there's nothing stopping you from plundering Just how long will it take before you leave me Yes, how long will it take before you're gone Cause I need to know how much courage I must muster How long biding my time before you're gone There's a pool of my tears That's formed an oasis in the palms of my hands And right now letting go seems so easy If I lose this water There'll be no evidence you ever were here Cause if I told anyone what you did they would never believe me Just how long will it take before you leave me Yes, how long will it take before you're gone Cause I need to know how much courage I must muster How long biding my time before you're gone Sometimes it feels like I am losing my mind Sometimes it feels like I am gone When I was lost and I couldn't find myself That's when I saw your fire burning at me There's a hole in my chest Cause there's no other way the love could get out And what you need from me You can take for yourself How long will it take before you leave me Yes, how long will it take before you're gone Cause I need to know how much courage I must muster How long biding my time before you're gone How long biding my time before you're gone How long biding my time before you're gone
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Three Phases of Divinity 04:34
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Young of age, grandfather’s faith From mystified to baptized Left finding flaws in priesthood laws Adult I stood, grandfather’s blood Led me back home to sing a poem Sweat and incense was too intense Every action and book, every path that I took All to get me back where I’d been Every symbol and shape, every valley and scape Tried to match it to what I’d seen At my peak nothing did I seek I was a punk who played a monk Inspecting clue of residue Every action and book, every path that I took All to get me back where I’d been Every symbol and shape, every valley and scape Tried to match it to what I’d seen Every action and book, every path that I took All to get me back where I’d been Every symbol and shape, every valley and scape Tried to match it to what I’d seen Every action and book, every path that I took All to get me back where I’d been Every symbol and shape, every valley and scape Tried to match it to what I’d seen Every action and book, every path that I took All to get me back where I’d been Every symbol and shape, every valley and scape Tried to match it
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I Like Boobs 00:15
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I like boobs They're all shapes and sizes They're squishy and they're bubbly I think they're kind of lovely I like boobs I like boobs
5.
Laura CK & River Harper - Yelling Boy 00:44
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I love the way that you played fetch The way you laid upon my chest I love the dusty way you smelled I even love the way you yelled You gave high fives right on the spot And you freaked out at the red dot You used to wrap around my neck You stole my snacks man, what the heck?
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Saguna / Nirguna 01:21
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We've sown seeds in the bones of yesterday's tears Intentionally shown my mistakes As good as they get Dance honest with pretensions Wonder if they met We've sown seeds in the bones of yesterday's tears Adrift between death and life The state not certain No achievement or mistake No dreams, not again Awaken states as they are We've sown seeds in the bones of yesterday's tears

about

Circles & Hands started as a response to the pressure of determining a follow-up to The Great Emptiness. The crux of my influence was summed up in a playlist I had made of songs I had loved in my relative youth: 50s R&B and rock n' roll to early 80s punk and hardcore. The title came from noticing most of my artwork in recent years had involved the symbols of circles and hands, and so this project embraced the union of those two symbols.

I liked the idea of creating a duality in the songs: which songs were hands, and which were circles? The first half of the album is spent on lengthier, more moody pieces dealing with my past. The second half of the songs are shorter, more upbeat, and more present. There was a conscious effort to develop a instrumental tone for the album that would unite the disparate elements. Although I didn't have as much time to prepare this album as the last, I have strong feelings about all of these songs, and I hope they make you feel something too. Even the boobs one.

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released March 18, 2022

All music and lyrics by Laura CK except “Yelling Boy” which has additional lyrics by River Harper.

“Emergency Exit” written and recorded July 2016.
All other songs written and recorded from June 2021 to February 2022.

Yelling Boy Records

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Laura CK Lynnwood, Washington

Laura CK (she/they) is a trans, cat mom and audio witch who writes post-punk/rock music that is occasionally short or kinda weird.

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