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A Room Of One's Own

by Le Pie

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steveinsocal "…an album from an artist whose mastery and understanding of the art of multi-layering, resplendent and lush sixties pop sensibilities masks a raw, autobiographical story chronicling her crumbling marriage, newly discovered sexual identity and the despair of struggling with mental illness… but it's also about battling to regain self-acceptance and ultimately redemption, to claim your place and space in this world…"

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Favorite track: Circles.
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1.
Circles 05:50
Circles, I play with circles they spin around around above my weary head. A clown in a circus I play with circles, is he worth it? Do I care? I step into the ring, I let the sadness win. Trapeze, high on the trapeze, I throw my body into shapes across the air and without netting am I impressive? Is he worth it? Do I care? I step into the ring, I let the sadness win. Circles I don’t want circles, well I wanna run and scream and let you mess my hair, a life without purpose our love’s imperfect, is he worth it? Do I care? I step into the ring and take my best swing! I look up to the clouds and cream it out loud! I step into the ring and take my best swing! I look up to the clouds and scream it out loud! Ohhhh waaaaaaaha mess my hair I step into the ring and take my best swing! I look up to the clouds and scream it out loud! Circle, our love’s not circle, well it is imperfect but I’ll keep it if I can.
2.
I came here a week ago to find self-respect, so far all I’ve done is get myself wrecked over you, tell me when will we be through? The dogs are asleep, I’m still awake, I’ve had about a million drinks my heart still aches over you, tell me when will we be through? ‘Cause when it comes to you, I cannot bear to lose, and though I’m tired of, I just can’t sleep you off and it breaks my heart, we end up where we start, for my little soul, I need to let you go I came back to Newtown I’m still a mess, you have a new life and a brand new address but it cruel, tell me when will we be through? You wrote me an email I did not reply, you want all our money straight before you July so it’s true, I guess we really are through. But when it comes to you, I cannot bear to lose, and though I’m tired of, I just can’t sleep you off and it breaks my heart, we end up where we start, for my little soul, I need to let you go. How the story ends, I lost my best friend, I know we both tried but this is the final goodbye. So I’ll make a new start, since you broke my heart, feels like it won’t mend but I can pretend. But when it comes to you, I cannot bear to lose, ohhhh oh and though I’m tired of, I just can’t sleep you off and it breaks my heart, we end up where we start, for my little soul, I need to let you go. Ohhhhh oh oh oh oh x 4 Go, let you go, let you go.
3.
I met this girl in the eye of a storm it was some time in June when the weathers not warm, she held my hand and we went for a dance and she said we should go back to her place. I took off my shirt and I showed her my heart, she undid her jacket, showed me hers scars it sounds so intense but it seemed to make sense at the time But, I always want people to be simple for me x 3 I’ve never had someone read me like that no I’ve never had someone read me like that before She showed me patience to let her in her face in my hair and my hands on her skin, her body like porcelain I was so scared I would break it. So the time passed and the weeks turned to months as questions arose about what we’d become, I wanted to lover her but knew I could not heartbreak within a heartbreak But, I always want people to be simple for me x 3 I’ve never had someone read me like that no I’ve never had someone read me like that before Weeks turned into months and it all came undone, I wanted to lover her when it stopped being fun But, I always want people to be simple for me x 3 I’ve never had someone read me like that no I’ve never had someone read me like that before
4.
Don’t wake me up leave me dreamin’ with my eyes closed I almost believe you haven’t gone, I bought those black out curtains you wanted to keep out the light but I’ve never had a worse sleep in my life Today will be the day I shed no tears, today will be the day I leave the house and lose my fears, todays the day I’ll find my feet on the ground, turns out todays another day I’ll kick myself when I’m already down, push my face into the ground I’m drunk again and crying on my own, some pathetic girl in a bad movie I’d never wanna know, when I sit in our yard by myself I cannot see the stars for the city lights have dulled them out and it feels like a metaphor Today will be the day I shed no tears, today will be the day I leave the house and lose my fears, todays the day I’ll find my feet on the ground, turns out todays another day I’ll kick myself when I’m already down, push my face into the ground I cannot recall where all this started I’ve lost and gained in a sea of sadness unchartered, I’m someone’s wife, giver of life, creator of strife. None or all or something more what is my life? Today will be the day I shed no tears, today will be the day I leave the house and lose my fears, todays the day I’ll find my feet on the ground, turns out todays another day I’ll kick myself when I’m already down
5.
If misery loves company then why am I alone in our bed tonight? Oh love, lover what a cruel game there is no love and yet we both remain. You’ll make your point over and I know you’ll win you’ll win yourself right into a life I’m not in. You want a cheat sheet right into my heart well I won’t give it up but here’s a good place to start… You could say that you want me, you could tell me you like my hair, you could say that I’m pretty just to reassure me you care, you could pick me a flower, you could give me an hour, you could find me on Sunday hold me tight until Monday …. Ooooooh ohhhhhhh x2 Up and down and round we cry who will leave first not you not I. There ain’t no mountain high enough to get me to take my fighting gloves off. I used to be sad but now I’m numb all the fighting has left me with my mind gone. You want a cheat sheet right into my heart well I won’t give it up but here’s a good place to start… You could say that you want me, you could tell me you like my hair, you could say that I’m pretty just to reassure me you care, you could pick me a flower, you could give me an hour, you could find me on Sunday hold me tight until Monday …. Ooooooh ohhhhhhh x2 You could take me to dinner, you could place your hand on my hand tell me I’m your best one night stand, throw me a glance in a crowded room say something stupid make me swoon, like you ‘love me right up to the moon’. Well tell me lovin’ me’s not too hard, us together is our winning card, say you’re willing to put up a fight until we get it back and make it all right, you could say that you love me, love me more than your jealousy, you could be the man beside of me you could throw your arms around me Ooooooh ohhhhhhh x4
6.
Little Spoon 03:35
Sometimes, I get into trouble with my mind, I hold it all in ‘till it unwinds I struggle to wrap it back up again to make some sense. This time I met someone who changed my life I opened my heart only to find I’ve placed it back out on my sleeve again oh damn You’re my baby you’re my world, I could never love another girl, I know I can lose this blue when you’re my little spoon Sometimes I get into bed and have a cry but knowing you’re right there by my side reminds me that everything will be fine if given time. You and I have such a bond you’re my best friend I know that we will be ‘till the end I trust you with everything that I have and am Let’s go for a walk we can hang in the park I can throw you a ball we can lay in the grass, our love may be silent but it’s still true no words are required when I am with you ohhhhh ohhhhh You’re my baby you’re my world, I could never love another girl, I know I can lose this blue when you’re my little spoon
7.
Give up your pride, cast it away, romance was born, we let it stray. Now that you’re gone, colours have greyed, I’m not myself my face has changed. I have some questions that I will not ask for fear of leading my heart to the past, but I think you know I would lead it forever for you. So I’ll fake a smile and I’ll call you a friend but foolishly I’ll love you right ‘till the end. I didn’t know your ‘forever’ was only a little while. Give up your time, what’s in a day? I watched our love, drifting away. Now that you’re gone, colours have greyed, I’m not myself my face has changed. I have some questions that I will not ask for fear of leading my heart to the past, but I think you know I would lead it forever for you. So I’ll fake a smile and I’ll call you a friend but foolishly I’ll love you right ‘till the end. I didn’t know your ‘forever’ was only a little while. I didn’t know your ‘forever’ was only a little while x 2 I have some questions that I will not ask for fear of leading my heart to the past, but I think you know I would lead it forever for you. So I’ll fake a smile and I’ll call you a friend but foolishly I’ll love you right ‘till the end. I didn’t know your ‘forever’ was only a little while. Only a little while x 3
8.
I went to the mountain to see where my heart is at, I lost it in the city I’m fightin’ hard to get it back, I washed it in the river I couldn’t get it spotless, I wanna see what it looks like without somebody else in it Eternal I went to the ocean said ‘sorry that I’ve been astray, do you remember my soul could you wash all my sins away?’ You were my father when my real one had left my side, no conversation in silence it was you and I Eternal x 2 When I go tumbling down the hill but it’s not for a thrill, when the big city swallows me whole like it surely will, when this big weight on my chest makes me feel like I can’t get out of bed and when all of my new beginnings start to feel like another end Eternal x 4
9.
Apparently I’m back here just when I could win it all, I am losing again, uninvited the silence is death I guess I’m back here again. It’s been so long since I felt like myself, full of loss I’m empty as a shell I can’t fight it or hide it no more I guess I’m back here again Well maybe in time I’ll wake up and my heart will feel like mine, but I’m on the descent I’m trying to believe we’re never meant, to ever be more than just friends Another song about him and so it’s been far too long in this state of unknown, uninvited the silence is death I guess I’m back here again. So once more I go ‘round the bend try to talk it out, I’ve been taking my meds uninvited the silence is death I guess I’m back here again. Well maybe in time I’ll wake up and my heart will feel like mine, but I’m on the descent I’m trying to believe we’re never meant, to ever be more than just friends
10.
‘Be grateful’ they cry you get to live out your life, it’s all got a reason but I’m calling bullshit on that… What’s wrong with feelin’ sad I would rather be than feel nothing real, real inside of me. I just wanna be Well ‘get yourself a plan’ they demand of me, but what’s the point in that I’m floating lost in a galaxy What’s wrong with feelin’ sad I would rather be than feel nothing real, real inside of me. I just wanna be Ohhhhh ohhhhh x 2 So ‘sing your song they shout your voice will bring change about’ but I’m just another piece, another piece in their machine What’s wrong with feelin’ sad I would rather be than feel nothing real, real inside of me. I just wanna be x 4
11.
I was born into sin, read it in the pages of the scripture taught to love the man I’m with, but I refuse to play that game again and I don’t need a saviour a mirror’s all I need to begin Gave my heart to the wind, lulling to and fro without an ending or beginning baby, but I don’t need assurance anymore, destruction’s not the curtain call if you let it break down your walls And who could measure such a thing, the heat and the violence of my heart that is tangled in this woman’s body, but I don’t need to search anymore, for now I understand a woman’s hearts a room of one’s own

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released November 13, 2020

Words and music by Le Pie
Recorded by Ben Moore of Harvest Recordings
Co Produced by Ben Moore and Le Pie

Performed by (individual credits in each track listing)
Le Pie
Courtney Cunningham
Melissa Mirage
Caleb Jacobs
Jake Meadows
Josef Muller
Matthew Jon Dewar

Image: Keziah Sugarat

With thanks to The City of Sydney for granting me a 12 months artist’s residency to create this album, without which, it would not have been possible. Also thank you to my son Noah for his ongoing love and support on my creative projects that sometimes turn both our worlds upside down.

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Female indie pop act from Sydney, Australia.

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