neweverymorningmusic:

a cover keira and i did of “lusitania” by andrew bird from his new album, break it yourself, which was released last week.
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i’ve been listening to this album a lot ever since getting my hands on it and i like it so much. i don’t think he’ll make a record that i enjoy more than armchair apocrypha but i do think that break it yourself beats out noble beast.

if you loosen liable lips
you keep sinking all my ships
oh, and you’re the one who sank my lusitania
but somehow it don’t register as pain at all
‘til it finds our crooked vein
it should help
oh, let’s not remember the name

oh, you made lines along your shore
oh, through my heart that ripped and tore
oh, we don’t study this war no more

so we let our backbones slip
‘til the arc spits from my fingertips
and we’ll become a hazard in the rain
boy, we’ll get charged out in the way
and there’s a 60-cycle hum
go ahead, say something dumb, boy there’s no shame
there’s no shame
go ahead, say something dumb, boy there’s no shame

oh, you laid mines along your shore
oh, through my heart that ripped and tore
oh, we don’t study this war no more 

keira and i, we’ve been meaning to record something together for a while now. this was a lot of good fun. i love her voice so much. more than st. vincent’s. good, keira, gold star.
also, she’s in a band with two other good friends called caitlyn and alayna and they are called scrimshaw and the mariner. listen!

love this very much