Package is a full-color, 4-panel wallet containing a vinyl look/feel CD and a 12-page booklet with full lyrics and artwork.
Songwriter's note to the hard-core audiophiles (truth in advertising): This is a high-quality CD-R, burned from a digital master in a professional manufacturing facility. It is NOT a replicated disk. I had to choose between replication and the vinyl look/feel I wanted for the CD. For me, the visual aesthetic was more important, given that most people are streaming these days anyway. The audio quality of the CD-R is the same as a pressed disk.
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Lead single and title track for our upcoming album, a collection of songs inspired by "The Handmaid's Tale"
lyrics
This is a letter to you
although I don't know who I'm writing to
And if it ever gets through
I don't know if there's anything that you could do
But there's things that you need to know.
So many here have given up on hope
I try to take it day by day
but I can feel my soul slipping away
So I'm writing you a letter, hoping that this letter
will somehow make it through to you
And if you find this letter and if you read this letter,
will it make any difference to you?
If it makes it through...
If you could see it all with your own eyes
I'm pretty sure that you would be surprised
I don't know what you see on the news
but no doubt they sanitize the views
There's only so much we can say.
They won't hesitate to cut away our tongues
And if we disobey
you can't conceive of the terrible price we pay
So if I write a letter, if I send this letter
will it somehow make it through to you?
And if you find this letter and if you read this letter
will it make any difference to you?
Will it make it through?
Mayday is on the move.
A stack of letters could finally prove
that the rumours you've heard are true.
We need your help and we're begging you
We're writing these letters, hoping that these letters
will somehow make it through to you
And if you see these letters, if you read these letters
it has to make a difference to you
We're writing these letters, hoping that these letters
will somehow make it through to you
And if you see all these letters, if you read all these letters
it has to make a difference to you
It has to make it through…
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
M'aidez! M'aidez!
credits
from Letters from Gilead,
track released September 17, 2021
Vocals and acoustic guitar: Kirsten Hazler
Electric bass: John Dacey
Electric guitar: Leslie Williams
Drums: Blee Child
Backing vocals: Jolie Harrison, Kirsten Hazler, Megan Rollins, Leslie Williams, John Dacey, and Blee Child
Karen Jonas' first album is a great collection of songs that tell intriguing stories. I can say I knew her back when; she played at a songwriter showcase I used to run and I got hooked on her voice. Haze & Dacey
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