Bonus - Dispossessed DVC 1997

from Infinitesimal by Unwoman

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17. Dispossessed DVD 1997: This was the first actual song with vocals I ever produced. My junior and senior years of high school I took electronic music at Diablo Valley College. We had learned MIDI and working with samples before we got to use microphones. I hadn't really learned how to use microphones (an exotic SM 57!) before I recorded this, but I fell in youthful narcissistic love with the sound of my voice through reverb. I felt I was hearing myself across a stadium filled with adoring fans. I was hooked. The other notable result of this first song I ever produced was that in laying down one line of vocals, I heard room for the second line which comes in over the second chorus and hadn't been in the first versions I'd played on piano: “Summer came/Days grew long/Everything you told me was wrong” etc. So then I realized that recording myself was critical in being able to make my songs their best.

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Half a world away I waited, silent
You'd kept me hanging on while I knew I needed distance
You finally threw me down, no promise anymore
Our words of love, delusions fell apart, copulating on the floor

And summer came and destroyed any other words
Now I can never call that lust by any other name
And you could tell those lies only while spring's blossoms grew
So I left my door open wide for something new

Now I fly through summer's air solely dispossessed
I feel the wind between my legs where once your hand caressed
How could I have been so blind to your fallacies?
Now thanks to slowly severed bonds I've risen to my knees and summer --

Summer came, days grew long
Everything you told me was wrong
For you knew all along
What you'd do to me
And in the spring you said those words
You said them, how you cried them
You said those words -- FOREVER -- you said them but you lied them

How can I stand at the crossroads without doubt?
How can I move forward, trusting now, without desire?
How will autumn fall between, inside our jaded hearts?
How can I touch without igniting fatal fire?

And she said "Stop looking to the heavens for omens, for love:
The answer lies within and it's always 'NO'
No more lies, no more hope"

(Summer burnt our reason)
But you were so, so full of promise
Or was that just PROMISCUITY?
And summer fades.
(September 1997)

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from Infinitesimal, released December 20, 1999

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Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Unwoman is a self-produced cellist-singer-songwriter. Layered with skillful cello, rich vocals, and electronically arranged beats, her solo music is a futuristic homage to her classical training. Unwoman has been featured at steampunk, goth, and sci-fi-related events all over North America and has collaborated with many notable acts. ... more

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