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Ritual (2017)

by Antonia Vai

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Intro 01:22
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one day the moon put on a red dress and came down to earth only for a drink, to try forbidden things, it’s the place to go, she’d heard but down here things are different and her light made people blind traffic crashed, volcanos blew and peace turned into fights so then they tried to catch her tried to strip away her pride yeah, the people tried to burn her for the same reason she is still alive did no one teach them, you can’t take the magic out of a witch’s spine ’cause if they get too close, she’ll just head up home and keep shining from the sky
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Mantra 03:56
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what am I waiting for? I let these nightmares in for too long now hear the cry of my soul what am I waiting for, deep in denial taking my fears right off, old crosses, I release them ask for no human word, the core of me, I wake believing right through us flows, a vow beyond their man-made laws we know as we go we’ll need nothing more hear my loving song, sing my mantra, sing my mantra for me hear my loving song, sing my mantra, sing my mantra for me hear my loving song, sing my mantra, sing my mantra for me hear my loving song, sing my mantra, sing my mantra for me I swallow the stars, if they cut me up I’ll shine sisters, we’ve been a universe disguised down on our knees for ”prophets” with lies in all their pockets, no what else is there, what else is there beyond this? let me cool myself in that water feelin’ so pure, my heart isn’t cold anymore let me cool myself in that water feelin’ so pure, my heart isn’t cold anymore now rise, I thought we’re the dawn uprising from everything done wrong to us let’s cool down, before we stand up, before we stand up like… hear my loving song, sing my mantra, sing my mantra for me hear my loving song, sing my mantra, sing my mantra for me hear my loving song, sing my mantra, sing my mantra for me hear my loving song, sing my mantra, sing my mantra for me I’m digging up broken skulls, I’m digging up the bones if they fight me I will stand all still and feel the forest grow out of my spine and the trees will rise up behind me like an army of light hear my loving song, sing my mantra, sing my mantra for me
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Love Song For An Ex 03:08
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Tell me, are you seeing someone new? Do you sleep with others too? Tell me, baby, if you do No one can be better than I was to you Tell me if that’s really true Tell me if you do Do you ever think of me when shes all over you Do you ever feel the misery Rushing right through your moans Through your skin and bones, my poor baby Tell me, are you seeing someone new? Do you sleep with others too? Tell me, baby, if you do Does she finish feelings that she starts? Does she like it rough and hard? Does she care with all her heart for you? For you, for you Here, dear, old world, come take me I have lost my mind, i’ve lost So I’m lying by your stairs like a dog On the front porch of your house, To rethink the things I’ve done I’ve barked and howled, but now I’m giving up I might be let in if i stop If I obey this punishment of love, anyway Back inside your house, I hear movements, and laughs Now you take her by the window, what a horrible revenge And I’m still left out, like a dog, while i wait for you to stop While I’m waiting out this punishment of love After, tell her, none of it was true Tell her all of me and you Tell her what you have to do now Make sure that she’s never coming back For your heart is aching in my hands Here, dear, old world, come take me I have lost my mind, i’ve lost Dear broken world, come help me I’ll kill her if I must Here, dear, old world, come take me I have lost my mind, i’ve lost Dear broken world, come help me I’ll kill her if I must
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Mad Heart 03:50
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what kind of mad heart does not know how to be still? why does it look for another against its lovers will? why does it ask to be free even when the right one’s by its side? what kind of mad heart gets love but stays unsatisfied? well, he does not own the magic to tame me his loving weighs heavy like rocks he puts them in my pocket, I throw them, I fuck it all up while he begs me to stop you can’t tie me down to the earth this way it’s not the place I belong I’m warning you now, go unlove me somehow ’cause I can not stay in one place with you for too long what kinda mad heart tries to beat herself out of the chest? buys one more round for her and the devil, knowing it will end in a mess diving the deepest of waters, before it has learned how to swim what kind of mad heart is smiling herself through the sin? no, he does not own the magic to tame me his loving weighs heavy like rocks he puts them in my pocket, I throw them, I fuck it all up while he begs me to stop babe, you can’t tie me down to the earth this way it’s not the place I belong I’m warning you now, go unlove me somehow ’cause I can not stay in one place with you for too long you can’t figure me out, can you? you can’t figure me out makes no sense. you can’t figure me out, can you? there’s no logic to us, what kind of mad heart has no morals in love? you can’t figure me out, I told you to stop, I told you to stop I already said you can’t tie me down to the earth this way it’s not the place I belong I’m warning you now, go unlove me somehow ’cause I can not stay in one place with you for too long
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The Witch 03:43
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I come like a wind under wings roar at invisible things the witch that will speak to the ghost I knew your name ’fore you told me I know where you’ve been, I know where you’ll go and I love you the most I’m so terrifying, poor little man you’re the food I will eat oh, oh, I am melting, I’m melting don’t pour your waters on me they wait for their stones to be thrown burn me alive, if I sink let me go, if I float let me die well then, how come we survive me and my sisters, through all those misters too scared to let us fly I’m so terrifying, come little man you’ll taste sweet in my pie oh, oh, do I melt, am I melting if you throw your waters, give it a try the haunt has already begun well, burn me in the middle of your square look again, look again, I’m not there! look again, babe, it’s magic ’cause they wouldn’t call me a witch for nothing
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Brand Old Revolution 04:21
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swaying with the changes of my own eternity for as long as I know how to be I’m growing with the fires, there is always more in me for as long as I am here, you see I’m starting a brand old revolution inside this life for as long as I belong to me I’m starting a brand old revolution inside my life for as long as it can set me free ey ey, letting it burn away, ey ey ey ey ey, letting it burn away, ey ey ey carrying the voice of the worlds insanity how long ’til we re-teach ourselves from doubt? how long ’til on my body I won’t see the flaws they taught me? oh, turn my bones inside out I’m starting a brand old revolution inside this life for as long as I am here you see I’m starting a brand old revolution inside my mind for as long as it will set me free ey ey, letting it burn away, ey ey ey brand old revolution awaits ey ey, letting it burn away, ey ey ey brand old revolution awaits I’ve been, I’ve been so lonely by your side I’d rather hold my own two arms around me fade in lights, fade in lights fade in lights, fade in lights
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The Devil Waits For Me To Slip 03:43
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have you ever tried to go clean from a druglike love, your kindest fiend knowing he’s in charge of your lows and highs wondering who you’ll be without his reply all those souls in my past they wanted me tamed fell for my fire then wished it restrained loving my power but built me a cage to smile from don’t you know killing my freedom means swaying me out love the devil waits for me to slip now you go killing my freedom loosing the one you got the devil will dance with me swaying me out of love oh, won’t you let me free so we say hello and bye at once we drink cherry wine and act like lovers do but I sense the end before it has begun my apologies if it’s confusing you all those times in my past I screamed and I kicked kept fighting the box they were putting me in well this is me, babe, and this is who you’re loving better let me go don’t you know killing my freedom means swaying me out of love the devil waits for me to slip now you go, killing my freedom why, did you not hear a word of mine? the devil, he talks through me oh, my love, goodbye, oh, my love, goodbye oh, my love, goodbye, oh, my love, goodbye I will set me free
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Warrior Soul 03:46
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warrior soul, do you hear me calling? calling out your name with my peace warrior soul, did they leave you falling? by the yellow lands and burning fields warrior soul, how’d you know my heart’s in everything I do? it seems my life lead me up to here so where you gonna take me, now I’ve come for you? ay ay ay, I’m not going back from where I came ay ay ay, no, they would not have me the way I am warrior soul, now we’re moving to keep strong knowing where we are is where we want to be far from illusions, where else could I belong? I never learned to fit in their society warrior soul, you don’t know where I’ve been I burned the grounds I walked before I came your way now home’s just a thought, memories are washed away this road is begging to me, begging to me ay ay ay, I’m not going back from where I came ay ay ay, no, they would not have me the way I am ay ay ay, I’m not going back from where I came ay ay ay, no, they would not have me the way I am
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Laika's Ballad 04:42
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I was already on my way, a stray dog in space, I felt like barking at the moon as if it called me didn’t know why it did before you told me.. you said ’this is what you’ll be, a stray dog in space’ giving me a name and you are right I don’t have a place here I don’t have a place here on these grounds, send me away… tie me down, wrap me in, save me no oxygen I never had a safe home on these grounds launch me out anywhere, send me all ’round the sphere ’round, no more gravity, pulling me down tell everyone that I’ve loved that my love was not enough for this earth where my words make no sense I am an orphanage dog, I’ve got nothing to lose no weapons in defense oh and one day this ship flies back without me did you really think I’d return? no, I’ll just leave you behind me – and smile at that little dot you’re on from up here… keep on polluting, keep lying, keep shooting at each other you’re not my sister or my brother gold in the government’s mine, I’m their unwanted child run your tests on me, see if I work now tell everyone that I’ll lose that my heart’s in the moon and it’s calling me, calling me home I am an orphanage dog, I’ve got no one to trust send me out alone oh and you’ll see this ship fly back without me did you really think I’d return? no, I’ll just leave you behind me – and smile at that little dot you’re on from up here… little world, would you care if I go would you care, little world, would you care if i go? little world, would you care if I go little world, would you care, would you care if I go? all this time I’ve been lost in your hands would you care, little world, would you care if I go? little world, would you care if i go would you care if I go, little world, would you care?
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Secret Life 03:53
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here comes that feeling I’ve been running from here comes that moment I was told would come and I can not turn while it’s surrounding me and I can not look while it is blinding me moon, little moon, sing me a lullaby just you and me, no one is passing by moon, have some wine, drink for this secret life tell me something good, where should I go tonight? I’ll go out, fall out, lost in your night stir up all chaos, let’s stir up this town gone for a while, lost in my lies I’ve got nothing to lose, living my secret life here comes that morning I’ve been hiding from I should’ve stayed where I’m safe but he put me on the run and I will not speak ’bout all the things I’ve done no, I can not tell who I am to anyone moon, little moon, you know my every sin you know my wishes, you know just where I’ve been moon, have some wine, join in my secret life let’s make no sense at all, where should I go tonight? where do lies burn out? light my soul on fire blindfold my eyes, lost in your night I’m living my secret life

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released September 19, 2017

Musicians that played on this album: Felix Gröndahl, Miklos Kovacs, Anas Rasta, Akos Gunsberger, Bertalan Sarkany, Krisztian Muhari, Mohamed Errebba, Ravi Resck, Momo Zawya.

Mixed by Mensa Ansah, except Warrior Soul, mixed by Felix Gröndahl.
Mastered by Tom Waltz.

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Antonia Vai Stockholm, Sweden

Antonia Vai is a singer-songwriter from Sweden. 2012 she released the albums "Lovers and Prophets", and "Dirt from when the Earth was flat".

In 2013 Antonia moved to Budapest and recorded the album “Stories After Bedtime”.

The album "Tightrope", released in March 2016.

The album "Ritual", released in September 2017. ... more

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