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Near Heaven

by Courtney Askey

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    Near Heaven was written in 2021 and recorded by Billy Lunn at YFE Studios, UK, in 2022.
    Ghost Writer (live demo) was written in 2022 and the demo was recorded in the chapel at Chapêlmêle, Normandy in 2023.
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Near Heaven 03:25
Dropping off the map I haven't slept through the night for years I had fitful dreams of creatures in the midday sun and disappointing my family again chaos at all roads ahead When I go I can take you down to the very bottom of the deep blue sea where the weeds have rotten with the strongest currents and the strangest friends it'll be near heaven and there's never any begging in it in a sense there's barely any left of it but I'll take anything I can get I'll miss you when you're gone I know you'll miss me too despite your pleas who doesn't love a fight? it's a battle of the wits to win the title it's a race you'll never miss you always take the mile Did you know I've been in on the joke from the very start? In the wings, playing every part, stage directing the perfect illusion there's clown paint right here underneath my face paint I'm up on the stage you've come in late you'll be watching me from the stalls Sometimes you're just in the mood to be enlightened and sometimes you're just screwed I'll never leave it there And I'll go to a place where it's warm and it never rains I know I'm a ghost but the fact remains you can't be haunted by what was never there it'll be near heaven and there's never any begging in it there's a chance there's barely any left of it but if I don't start now how will I quit while I'm ahead?
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I am good I am guarded look at my body made from glass all eggshell under the night sky master bridge burner pure theatre I'll wear my gloves and admit I've never been able to write The fantasy lover you met at the bar or the spy undercover who lied and broke your heart I want to move to Silverlake but I'll put a pin in it I need to go and get more pins my collection's depleting All I wanted to do was exist within you and in doing so exist within me too so I'll burn my bridges scratch the itches of my suburban-addled brain and try to do it again It's the prize on the shelf it's the way you view yourself Holy Ghost and worst daughter so familiar it's the sleep talking it's the predator balking you're whispering to the moon and she's talking back to you I'll step into your skin control your limbs and I'll like everything I write in your hand in your hand And when I did exist when I was within you well, then there was the stage that I once knew bookmarking all the things that I won't go in for force-feeding all the ones that I had for I'll step into your skin control your limbs and I'll like everything I write in your hand in your hand in your hand

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released May 15, 2023

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Courtney Askey UK

Courtney Askey is a musician and artist based in Leicester. Performing both solo and as a band, her music is sometimes riotously noisy, and sometimes contained and reflective. Courtney writes songs imbued with storytelling and melodrama, tinged with influence from folk to shoegaze to garage rock. ... more

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