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BE HERE NOW

by The Mynabirds

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1.
Be Here Now 04:37
Everybody, everybody all together
 Everybody right here now
 There isn’t any place in the world I’d rather 
 Be right now Everybody, everybody stand together 
 Everybody stand your ground
 Cause I can finally breathe
 When we’re shoulder to shoulder 
 Stand up now BE RIGHT HERE NOW Everybody come and take a step together 
 Everybody, one step now 
If you’re feeling lost 
Well just remember 
You’re here now Everybody, everybody sing together 
 Everybody get real loud
 When we put our voices all together 
 We can blow the walls down BE RIGHT HERE NOW Everybody, everybody all together 
Everybody right here now 
 Everybody, everybody all together 
 Be here now BE RIGHT HERE NOW 
 BE RIGHT HERE
2.
New Moon 03:31
New moon on the ruin 
 Like a black light 
With a neon eye
 At least now Now we know 
Who we are New moon
 Heard you’re bulletproof 
 With your watch wind 
 Shaking out the truth 
 There’s so much
 We can see
In the dark 
At least now 
Now we know
 Who we are ON A MOONLESS NIGHT 
 YOU ARE THE LIGHT New moon 
Heard you’re trading truth 
On the kill floor
 Of the cutting room 
It’s a shame 
What we waste 
In the dark
 At least now
 Now we know ON A MOONLESS NIGHT 
 YOU ARE THE LIGHT
3.
Golden Age 04:28
Can you show me a good trick 
 Show me some magic 
Can you pull the whole world 
From my ear? I hate how the best things 
 Keep disappearing 
Like Leonard and Bowie 
 And the ice caps here And we’re left with this 
 Ignorant bliss
 When we find a good thing 
 We can’t hold onto it THE GOLDEN AGE 
IT SURE WAS GREAT 
THE SUN WAS SO PRETTY
 WE COULDN’T LOOK AWAY Now I can’t see my brother 
My sister or mother 
Through the rose-colored glasses 
 Of my own news feed And the sermon I’m giving 
In this new algorithm — 
It’s falling on deaf ears
 Cause the choir already believes Tell me, where are our heroes 
Are they stuck at the wall?
 Cause we got some real villains to stop 
 Before they kill us all THE GOLDEN AGE
 IT’S OURS TO SAVE 
I HEAR THE BELLS RINGING
 ARE YOU AWAKE? Can you show me a your best trick 
 Your slick brand of magic
 Your pen’s not a wand
 To make us disappear I see what you’re doing 
With the Jews and the Muslims 
 You’re sawing us all 
In half with your fake fear My heart’s full of love 
And all kinds of peace 
 But I think even I 
Could punch a Nazi 
In the face THE GOLDEN AGE 
IT GOES AWAY 
IF WE JUST STAND HERE 
WITH OUR HANDS UP 
 BEGGING, “DON’T SHOOT, PLEASE!” I’m sure Mars is nice
 And I do love the moon 
But this is my home 
I’m not leaving anytime soon So call if you need me 
I promise I’m there 
 With a thermos of coffee 
 And cups to share I’ll be out on my island
 Until the dawn breaks
 Hanging out with the night watch 
 My lamp raised
4.
I’d rather have cuts on my knees 
 Than blood in my mouth
 From biting my tongue 
And keeping it down While you were sleeping 
I was wide awake screaming SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
 SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
 TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT 
 TEARING AT THE SKY 
 TEARING AT THE NIGHT 
 WITH BOTH HANDS Go right ahead
 You can cut me off at my knees 
 I’ll find a new way 
To get back up Don’t need another naysayer 
 There’s too much to do together SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
 SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
 TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT 
 TEARING AT THE SKY 
TEARING AT THE NIGHT 
 WITH BOTH HANDS 
SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT 
 TEARING AT THE SKY 
TEARING AT THE LIES 
 WITH BOTH HANDS I wouldn’t want to be another way 
 I couldn’t ever be another way Whenever the sun comes down
 Like a ton of bricks 
I want to be the one, I want to be the one To help you lift it
 And we’ll keep SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
 SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
 TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT 
TEARING AT THE SKY 
 TEARING AT THE NIGHT 
 WITH BOTH HANDS 
SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
 SHOUTING AT THE DARK 
 TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT 
 TEARING AT THE SKY 
 TEARING AT THE LIES 
 WITH BOTH HANDS
5.
Cocoon 03:48
Vesuvius, Vesuvius 
Kicking up your dust 
 Don’t need the news 
I can see the truth
 What is happening to us? I finally found
 Some solid ground
 Where I didn’t have to hide What can you do? 
 Nothing’s fireproof 
 ‘Cept how I feel tonight I JUST WANNA STAY COCOONED 
RIGHT HERE WITH YOU 
EVEN AS THE SKY
 THE SKY IS FALLING (DOWN)
 EVEN AS THE STARS BURN OUT
 I KNOW THAT I’M SAFE AND SOUND
 HOLDING ONTO YOU 
 AND YOU TO ME Let the fools call us crazy 
They can say we’re insane
 If I’ve ever been out of my mind 
I know that I’m not today Vesuvius, Vesuvius
 Do what you will with us 
Right or wrong
 I’ll keep hanging on
 To one thing you can’t touch I JUST WANNA STAY COCOONED
 RIGHT HERE WITH YOU
 EVEN AS THE SKY 
THE SKY IS FALLING (DOWN)
 EVEN AS THE STARS BURN OUT 
I KNOW THAT I’M SAFE AND SOUND 
HOLDING ONTO YOU 
AND YOU TO ME EVEN WHEN IT’S SAID AND DONE 
AT LEAST I DIDN’T HAVE TO RUN
 HOLDING ONTO YOU 
AND YOU TO ME
6.
Witch Wolf 03:06
The war is raging
 And it’s inside me
 I don’t know which wolf 
I want to feed WHICH WOLF
 WITCH WOLF
 WHICH WOLF 
DO I WANT TO FEED? The lines are drawn
 And I can see the enemy 
I know how good he’d taste 
Between my teeth WHICH WOLF 
WITCH WOLF 
WHICH WOLF
 DO I WANT TO BE? I feel the venom 
Creeping up on me 
I see your black snake 
 Around my feet 
I’m angry 
I’m seething
 This heat in my veins 
Your power 
Your poison 
Is mine
Is ours
 To take take take I will not suffer 
Under your attack 
My blood is boiling 
Ten generations back WHICH WOLF
 WITCH WOLF
 WHICH WOLF? How do we get around? 
 Go straight to the heart
7.
You want to write it down 
 Every wrong I can’t erase 
So let me help you out 
I’ll light both sides of the page No one ever said this would be easy
 No one ever said this would be fair 
But I can burn the house we built together 
 And we can stop pretending that we care I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
 LEAVE THE ASHES IN THE RAIN Well are you happy now?
 You don’t have to carry all the weight 
 Wouldn’t want to bring you down 
 While we’re going up in flames No one ever said this would be easy
 And no one ever said it’d be this hard 
Why should I try to hold it all together 
 When you’re the one who’s tearing us apart I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE 
IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO BLAME
 I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE 
LEAVE THE ASHES IN THE RAIN

 Now I know nothing’s forever 
 Honestly, honestly I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE 
IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO BLAME 
I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE 
LEAVE THE ASHES IN THE RAIN 

 No one ever said it would be easy 
 No one ever said I can fight fire
8.
Hold On 03:42
It was meant to be simple
 The way that we love each other 
It was mean to be simple 
Just one golden rule If I’m caught in the river 
Tell me what would you do? 
If you can see that I’m drowning 
 And reaching out for you HOLD ON
 HOLD ON TO ME You ever thought of the language 
 The one that we all speak?
 The golden weight letters — I hear your fear and your anger 
 But can you hear my heart break? 
It could be simple
 If you would just listen when I say HOLD ON
 HOLD ON TO ME You ever think of my fingers 
 When you join your hands to pray 
 Cause I’m singing your hymns 
 When I’m crying HOLD ON 
HOLD ON TO ME
9.
Wild Hearts 04:07
We were born with wild hearts 
Blood in our veins like an electric storm 
We were wild right from the start Then the cold wind came 
And it trashed our night
 Left a broken dream in a broken sky 
 I know that it’s been hard SO LET YOUR WILD HEART
 BEAT LIKE THE DRUM YOU ARE
 WE’LL ROLL LIKE THUNDER
 THROUGH THE DARK 
AND IF YOU SING WITH ME 
 OH, DON’T STOP SINGING 
WE’LL SHINE THE LIGHT
 I KNOW WE ARE 
I KNOW WE ARE Don’t go getting cynical
 It’s so easy to do when love runs cold 
I know, cause I can do it, too 
 You’re a drop of gold in a blackout world 
 Oh you’re nothing less than so much more 
It’s true 
 You know it’s true Every little thing’s so heavy now 
I know every little thing’s so heavy
 But everything’ll work out perfect somehow SO LET YOUR WILD HEART
 BEAT LIKE THE DRUM YOU ARE
 WE’LL ROLL LIKE THUNDER
 THROUGH THE DARK
 AND IF YOU SING WITH ME 
 OH, DON’T STOP SINGING
 WE’LL SHINE THE LIGHT
 I KNOW WE ARE 
I KNOW WE ARE We were born with wild hearts 
 Nothing can tear us apart 
 We’re strong
 And we still are 
Wild Hearts

about

BE HERE NOW, is a collection of 9 songs written and recorded in just 2 weeks in January 2017 following the Inauguration and the Women’s March. Singer Laura Burhenn worked with producer Patrick Damphier in his Nashville studio (which he was being evicted from to make way for luxury condos) to document the news and peoples’ intense emotional responses to it all in real time. No stranger to politics in her songwriting, Laura aimed to speak from the voice of the collective consciousness in a work of “Emotional Journalism,” singing the heartbreak, anger, exhaustion and resolute hope she witnessed during the Muslim travel ban, the final stand at Standing Rock, and every other news story that rattled America in that period. The album vacillates in style and feel to reflect a frayed nation, featuring a Burundian refugee choir on one song, and a cacophony of dissonant saxophones in a new national anthem on another. It is the last recording made in that space.

American singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn is a shape-shifter who can’t sit still. Since 2010 she’s worked under the moniker The Mynabirds, releasing three critically acclaimed and stylistically different albums on Saddle Creek: What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood (2010) and GENERALS (2012), both produced by Richard Swift, and Lovers Know (2015). She has also toured as a member of the Postal Service (2013) and Bright Eyes (2011), helped found Omaha Girls Rock (a non-profit helping young girls and their voices), and in 2013 gave a TED talk based on her “New Revolutionists” portrait project, exploring what it means to be a revolutionary woman in this day and age. Before The Mynabirds, Laura was a member of DC indie band Georgie James with Q And Not U’s John Davis, and also put out two self-produced solo albums on the label she founded herself, Laboratory Records.

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released August 25, 2017

2017 Saddle Creek

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American singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn is a shape-shifter who can’t sit still. Since 2010 she’s worked under the moniker The Mynabirds, releasing three critically acclaimed and stylistically different albums on Saddle Creek: What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood (2010) and GENERALS (2012), both produced by Richard Swift, and Lovers Know (2015). ... more

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