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This World Is Too _____ For You

by Emily Wells

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1.
1. Remind Me To Remember I am a humble servant. I serve, myself. I am a humble servant, don’t look at me, don’t look at me yet. cause I can be better, better than that. I can be better. Yeah. I can be better, better than that. Don’t look at me. Don’t look at me yet. In the morning I wake up, tears in my eyes Every evening, I’m so blurry. In dark I, I hold my baby so tight Every morning, we’ll be cryin’, We’ll be cryin’ Throw yourself, throw yourself in the water if you want to get cold Throw yourself, throw yourself on the fire, if you want to burn to death Throw yourself, throw yourself at the crowd if you really want to get wet Don’t look at me, don’t look at me yet cause I can be better, better than that. I can be better. Yeah. I can be better, better than that. Don’t look at me. Don’t look at me yet. I can be louder, louder than that. I can be louder. Yeah. I can be louder, louder than that. Don’t look at me. Don’t look at me yet.
2.
Stay Up 03:47
Forget the flood, when I was out praying in the yard Listening for forever Drag the carpets out, into the sun Don’t you get lonely? yeah Don’t you get angry? yeah Stay up until your friends come out You heard the cry and you wanna cry back Forget the flood, when I was out trying to be someone Listening for forever Drag my body down, into the sun Don’t you get lonely? yeah Don’t you get angry? yeah Stay up, Stay up Hangin’ around Wastin’ my time with you. You heard the cry and you wanna cry back You want to be held, you want a reaction baby Go make yourself good, we’re all singing for ya There’s always something out there swaying Go make yourself quiet if you want to move with it oh you want to move with it. Do you want to move with it?
3.
I’ve been waiting on an invitation I’ve been waving like a teenager I’ve been playing like it’s already over Come on doom, let’s party Come on doom, come on in Come on doom, let’s party Get it over. Get it. Get it over. I’ve been waiting on an invitation I’ve been waving like a dowager I’ve been playing like it’s gonna last forever
4.
Can’t make ice in the desert, can’t fool the heavens Don’t make me feel better. Don’t want to feel blessed In the furnace that made us, that’s where I will rest. And for the rest, real suffering. No one’s gonna save us, gonna be no Jesus No personal Jesus, gonna save us. Luck isn’t freedom, they’re not even brothers. Luck’s just a way of life, we’ve grown accustom My luck is my greed. Luck is having a news feed I got enough. Enough is too much. No one’s gonna pay down the debts of our daddy No one gonna clean the whole house No one gonna love us madly, give us mouth to mouth No one gonna save us, from ourselves How does it go? The earth will inherit. Remember our gentleness, forget our excesses Just keep the music, and fuck all the rest of it yeah, fuck all the rest of it. yeah, fuck all the rest of it. No one’s gonna save us, gonna be no Jesus No personal Jesus, gonna save us. We need each other to save us.
5.
Out there, in the dark, everything is moving Make me that brave. I want to be out moving Without the lights, without the lights on. Take my body, make it stop humming. I want to be still, I want to be something. Alive. Alive. In the dark moving. Alive, alive, in the dark moving. Out there, in the dark, everything is moving Make me, that brave. I want to be out moving Without the lights, without the lights on. Take my heart, make it stop wanting. I want to be here I want to be someone. Alive. Alive. In the dark moving. Alive, alive, in the dark moving. Alive. Alive. In the dark moving.
6.
Come back news night, give me meaning Come back brother I want you to come back night cap Cause I lost my God. My God. I asked for small relief, all I got was free will Set the table in mono. Want a drink, but not the bottle. Pour a little out, for all the days I lost to… Pour a little out for all the days I lost to misery, some small desire Relieve me. I need a placebo I need water I need. I need. I need.
7.
Ruthie 03:38
Wish we were getting on a plane, I wish you were running your hand through my hair Say my name. Say my name. Honey take me away from here. Can you hold it there? Can you carry, can you steer? Is it too much, this burden to share? I can promise I can pay. I’ll return it some day. But honey please please take me anyway. Honey please, take me away. On the other side of this mean twilight there’s a clearing, or so I hear Like a child too late, like a mother in the street Like an old cliché  Honey take me, take me away.
8.
You don’t have to worry about a thing. Time’s been rearranged and you are new again. You’re a rock n roll man. You’re a new idea. Goddamn Goddamn. You don’t have to sing another song. There’s a choir inside of you, just sing along You’re a rock n roll man. You are singing with them. Goddamn Goddamn. I will be there for you in the night, if you need a song. I will be there for you if you need to dream on. What are you so afraid of (honey) Don’t you want to be here (with me) Everybody’s got a new friend in you. Singing all the new songs forever and ever and ever, amen. You don’t have to worry about a thing. Time’s been rearranged and we are new again. We’re a rock n roll band. We’re a new idea. Goddamn Goddamn. What are you so afraid of (honey) Don’t you want to be here (with me) Everybody’s got a new friend in you. Singing all the new songs forever and ever and ever, amen. Amen, Amen.
9.
What’s better than understanding? What’s better than knowing the price of your sin? What’s better than understanding? Don’t you dare say ignorance. One bright February, we were all showing some skin The gods they were laughing. They were playin’ their cards, they were placing their bets all in They said, “play now, play now, play now, you pay later for price of this sin.” Gotta come down, gotta come down, gotta come down. Don’t wait for me… no. I grew weary of the threshold. Yeah I know, I know, I like to see. Take matters like that in your own hands, you might drown on your own company Oh but the gods they were laughing. Can you believe, they were calling me a fool? They said, “play now play now play now, you’ll pay later, for the price of this too.” Gotta come down, gotta come down, gotta come down. Don’t wait for me… no. What’s better than understanding? What’s better than knowing just right where you stand? What’s better than understanding? Don’t you dare say ignorance. Don’t you dare say ignorance.
10.
I didn’t want to go away so soon. I wasn’t done with you. I didn’t want to give it up like this. I’m not prepared to miss. I didn’t want it bad enough. So go on, get it going on in a new world. Hallelujah, in a new world. Can’t we just carry on? Can’t we just carry a little longer? Can’t we just get it!? I didn’t want to look away just yet. I want my provenance. I didn’t want to tell the truth, you know that’s when it’s time to go. I didn’t want it bad enough. There is no going on with it. Everything you know you learn to quit. There is no going on with it. Everything you love you learn to quit. There is no going on with it. Everything we love we learn to quit. So go on, go on, get it going on in a new world. Hallelujah, in a new world.

credits

released March 22, 2019

This World Is Too _____ For You written & produced by Emily Wells
Chamber Ensemble arrangements created by Michi Wiancko
in collaboration with Emily Wells and commissioned by
Metropolis Ensemble & Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series. 
Andrew Cyr: Music Director
Chamber Ensemble arrangements performed by Metropolis Ensemble:
Violin: Katie Hyun and Grace Park (leader), Viola: Emily Brandenburg,
Cello: Michael Katz, Double Bass: Evan Runyon
French Horn: Laura Weiner, Assistant Musician: Daniel Castellanos
Chamber Recordings at Electric Garden Studio, Brooklyn, NY - Sept 7, 2018
Engineered by Christopher Botta with assistance from Jaclyn Sanchez
Additional instrumentation recorded by Emily
at her studio in Harlem, NY - June 2017 - Oct. 2018
Emily on synths, vocoders, drum programming, electric guitar, vocals + live drums: Hymn For the New World & Eulogy For the Lucky, violin: I Need A Placebo
Live Drums/Percussion by Shayna Dunkleman - recorded Sept 28, Oct 1-2, 2018
Michi Wiancko plays violin on Your Apocalypse was Fab
Mixed at Fer Sound by Christopher Botta and Emily Wells - Oct. - Nov. 2018
Additional mixing, editing, advice & insight from Jacob Plasse - Sept. 2017 - Nov. 2018
Assistance w/ vocal comping + critical listening by Samantha Nye - June 2017 - Dec. 2018
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering - Dec. 2018
Album Cover: Installation view of Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains, 2016,
Las Vegas, Nevada. Coproduced by Art Production Fund & The Nevada Museum of Art. Photograph by Jonathon Lo

After seeing the image of Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains in the Paris Review I cut it out and put it up in the studio to be in conversation with the work. These songs are about the human being interacting with the natural world. They wish to embrace as much as they wish to critique. I love how Rondinone’s work accomplishes this -- the interruption it poses on the vast silent desert, its playful fearlessness. I want for the songs to be of the same cloth. Thank you Ugo Rondinone for your inspiration & to the project producers of Seven Magic Mountains

My enormous gratitude to Michi Wiancko for getting all the way in the water with me & giving yourself to each of these songs. Thank you to Kate Nordstrum & SPCO’s Liquid Music Series for giving this project life & inception. Thank you to Metropolis Ensemble & to Andrew Cyr for always seeing me, sometimes before I see myself, & making this album possible in so many ways. Thank you to Jacob Plasse for loving these songs in the tender way that you love songs & helping me to move about them with clarity. To Chris Botta for your enormous capacity to listen, to be inside of it, & to give + your eagle ears. I Neve a Placebo! To Shayna Dunkleman for incredible performances, your golden heart + those 3 fantastic days in my studio. To the artists of Metropolis Ensemble, you have elevated this record & torn a hole in the ceiling of my ideas of making. To Daan De Bruyne, I’m so lucky. To Ginny Suss, yes forever! To Terrorbird. To Rich Nichols, you are still orchestrating your magic. To Emily Nemens for making album cover dreams come true. To Amanda Horn at Nevada Museum of Art & to Jonathon Lo for graciously lending me this image that I adore. Metropolis + Emily wish to thank Drew Vogelman & Ben Kane, Jennifer Salomon, Francisco Fullana
Thank you to my friends for moving through the making with me. It’s a dance because I have you. To my family for breathing life into the lunacy of being an artist & keeping the heart beating through living a life of it. To my Goddaughter Marlow.
To my listeners, thank you, I hope you know how much I need you.
And always, to my companion in life & art, the first & last, Samantha Nye.

This album is dedicated to Olympia Wells. The most generous soul I ever knew. 2003-2018

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“Quietly transfixing” composer / producer Emily Wells is known for her varied use of classical and modern instrumentation, “a master of blending the worlds of classical and electronics” (NPR) and “dramatic, meticulous and gothic songs” (New York Times). ... more

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