Land of Talk - Weight of That Weekend

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Land of Talk - "Weight of That Weekend" from the 2020 album Indistinct Conversations on Saddle Creek.

Montreal-based singer-songwriter Elizabeth Powell revived her Land Of Talk project, releasing the new album Indistinct Conversations earlier this year. As hinted in its title, today's Song of the Day does, indeed, look at heavier topics. In a press release, Powell explained:

“Weight of That Weekend” is a recognition of having been on the receiving end of a lifetime of sexual coercion, assault, boundary violations, and subsequent gaslighting. It all just came to light after an especially heavy weekend a few summers back. I was so sick of carrying all this weight that wasn’t mine to bear. So sick of being owned by all of this. Imposed on me mostly by men. I grew so sick of suffering and being slowed down by this weight. The song is a prayer for a lightness of being. A prayer for capital “L” Love.

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0:00.0	Always come at me from a different angle
0:03.8	make me think I don't understand
0:07.6	how I'm feeling to the feeling that I get out of hand.
0:15.0	Visible only till the furthest fountain,
0:20.0	acting like I never got scared without feeling I never want to do. So, I'm always trying to get back something
1:07.0	she just gets some will
1:14.0	on a ride, on a down that feel.
1:20.0	Physical way of night facing partner eyes wide I let it go too soon
1:30.2	Now I feel it sit with it while I wait by the moon
1:38.0	Because I'm not sleeping the waves that we can.
1:45.0	that we can. again.
1:53.0	As long as I'm breathing. This is a prayer for love. Holy Water House of Pain
2:21.0	Come through slaughter to swim again.
2:27.0	Holy water.
2:31.0	Holy water, how's the pain?
2:37.0	When I heal from slaughter and swim again because I'm not sleeping. the way that we can't.
2:57.0	As long as I'm dreaming.
3:05.0	This is a dreamer.
3:10.0	This is a prayer for love.
3:17.0	This is a prayer for love for love
3:28.0	this is a prayer for love because I'm not sleeping.

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