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Cocoon

from BE HERE NOW by The Mynabirds

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February 3, 2017
I played at a Standing Rock benefit in LA in December with TV On The Radio, Fiona Apple, and a bunch of amazing musicians, including my friend Kimya Dawson, who I’ve known since open mic days in the East Village at the Sidewalk Cafe. She’d just written a beautiful piece in support of art spaces in the wake of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, and I’d been thinking a lot about “safe spaces” for LGBT and other marginalized people. This song was about literally turning off the news as the world burned all around us — and as the architecture of the studio we were recording in was metaphorically going up in flames — and knowing we were safe.

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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

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from BE HERE NOW, released August 25, 2017

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The Mynabirds Los Angeles, California

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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