Lyrics (click/tap CC to see subtitles): Why are you hanging on So tight To the rope that I’m hanging from Off this island This was an escape plan Carefully timed it So let me go And dive into the waves below
Who tends the orchards? Who fixes up the gables Emotional torture From the head of your high table Who fetches the water From the rocky mountain spring And walk back down again To feel your words and their sharp sting And I’m getting fucking tired
The capillaries in my eyes are bursting If our love died, would that be the worst thing? For somebody I thought was my saviour You sure make me do a whole lot of labour The calloused skin on my hands is cracking If our love ends, would that be a bad thing? And the silence haunts our bed chamber You make me do too much labour
Apologies from my tongue Never yours Busy lapping from flowing cup And stabbing with your fork I know you’re a smart man And weaponise The false incompetence It’s dominance under guise
If we had a daughter I’d watch and could not save her The emotional torture From the head of your high table She’d do what you taught her She’d meet the same cruel fate So now I’ve gotta run So I can undo this mistake At least I’ve gotta try
The capillaries in my eyes are bursting If our love died, would that be the worst thing? For somebody I thought was my saviour You sure make me do a whole lot of labour The calloused skin on my hands is cracking If our love ends, would that be a bad thing? And the silence haunts our bed chamber You make me do too much labour
All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid Nymph then virgin, nurse then a servant Just an appendage, live to attend him So that he never lifts a finger 24/7 baby machine So he can live out his picket fence dreams It’s not an act of love if you make her You make me do too much labour
Credits: Director: Adam Othman Producer: Giulia Lopes Director of Photography: Theo Brinch 1st AC: Rafal Rakoczy Gaffer: Will Jessel BTS: Jamal Thomas Art Director: Paris Paloma Art Assistant: Morgan Bull
Lyrics (click/tap CC to see subtitles): Why are you hanging on So tight To the rope that I’m hanging from Off this island This was an escape plan Carefully timed it So let me go And dive into the waves below
Who tends the orchards? Who fixes up the gables Emotional torture From the head of your high table Who fetches the water From the rocky mountain spring And walk back down again To feel your words and their sharp sting And I’m getting fucking tired
The capillaries in my eyes are bursting If our love died, would that be the worst thing? For somebody I thought was my saviour You sure make me do a whole lot of labour The calloused skin on my hands is cracking If our love ends, would that be a bad thing? And the silence haunts our bed chamber You make me do too much labour
Apologies from my tongue Never yours Busy lapping from flowing cup And stabbing with your fork I know you’re a smart man And weaponise The false incompetence It’s dominance under guise
If we had a daughter I’d watch and could not save her The emotional torture From the head of your high table She’d do what you taught her She’d meet the same cruel fate So now I’ve gotta run So I can undo this mistake At least I’ve gotta try
The capillaries in my eyes are bursting If our love died, would that be the worst thing? For somebody I thought was my saviour You sure make me do a whole lot of labour The calloused skin on my hands is cracking If our love ends, would that be a bad thing? And the silence haunts our bed chamber You make me do too much labour
All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid Nymph then virgin, nurse then a servant Just an appendage, live to attend him So that he never lifts a finger 24/7 baby machine So he can live out his picket fence dreams It’s not an act of love if you make her You make me do too much labour
Credits: Director: Adam Othman Producer: Giulia Lopes Director of Photography: Theo Brinch 1st AC: Rafal Rakoczy Gaffer: Will Jessel BTS: Jamal Thomas Art Director: Paris Paloma Art Assistant: Morgan Bull
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#parispalomalyric video for “last woman on earth.” made by my wonderful friend Eunjo Lee is out now💜 #lwoeParis Paloma2024-10-10 | ...Paris Paloma - last woman on earth [Official Lyric Video]Paris Paloma2024-10-07 | New album "Cacophony" out now: parispaloma.ffm.to/cacophony
#parispaloma #cacophonyAll your videos to “hunter” are so incredible. Booktok and fantasy girls rise ❤️🔥 #booktok #fantasyParis Paloma2024-10-07 | ...1600 of your voices singing along as one. #ontour #liveshow #toomuchlabour #feminismParis Paloma2024-10-05 | ...Em Niwa, your work is beautiful #hunter #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-10-03 | ...See you in March!! #northamerica #americatour #ontourParis Paloma2024-10-01 | ...I’m so grateful for you all. Share and tag me in all the fairy messages you received at my shows!!!Paris Paloma2024-09-29 | ...LISTEN to all of your voices!!!! It gives me shivers every night #labour #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-09-27 | ...you would have done it already❤️🔥 #hunter #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-09-25 | ...“Drywall” live from Cologne ❤️ #livemusic #ontour #fragilemasculinity #patriarchyParis Paloma2024-09-23 | ...Wild Geese by Mary Oliver and Bones on the Beach #poem #poetry #maryoliver #wildgeese #folkmusicParis Paloma2024-09-21 | ...whats your favourite line of “hunter?” #newmusic #newalbum #folkmusic #womeninmusicParis Paloma2024-09-19 | ...it heals me to play these shows for you all #ontour #europetour #liveshow #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-09-17 | ...I’m so grateful for you ❤️ #ontour #livemusic #audience #fanproject #folkmusicParis Paloma2024-09-15 | ...Have you listened to the album yet? #newmusic #womanhood #lastwomanonearth #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-09-13 | ...Thank you for being such a wonderful and magical community. #livemusic #ontour #liveshows #europeParis Paloma2024-09-11 | Subscribe to Paris Paloma's YouTube channel: parispaloma.ffm.to/ytsubscribe
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When I’m lying in my bed I like to pretend That my body is just bones on the beach
It’s the first time I feel rested Since my mother’s womb I slept in my last home between the stones and the sea
Some overzealous anthropology professor With all his students in tow Carry spades and books for studying, stumbling Discover me I implore them to leave me alone
Give me one millennium more there Maybe I will belong more there Than any place in which I was living When I’m bones on the beach
With the end long past nigh One eternal sigh I’ve no breath that is left to release
And the loudness of mind has been gone since I died Was I meant in this life to find peace? Before I became bones on the beach
I hear footsteps, And bones they cannot look left But I register her stepping nearby
Her face is peaceful, She’s looked upon life’s evil And considered it next to infinite skies She doesn’t ask for more time
Give me one millennium more there Maybe I will belong more there Than any place in which I was living When I’m bones on the beach
When I’m bones on the beach
(Death won’t bring what you think it will) (Death won’t bring what you think it will) (Death won’t bring what you think it will) (Death won’t bring what you hope it will)
What I long for’s nonexistent In any belief system All I, all I that want is some rest There's no sentience in death Just the darkness at the worst Temporality and permanence (Death won’t bring what you think it will) I don’t know what’s on the other side (Death won’t bring what you think it will) But I don’t think it’s what I had in mind (Death won’t bring what you think it will) I hope I find some rest in this life (Death won’t bring what you hope it will)
(Death won’t bring what you think it will) (Death won’t bring what you think)
I smelt smoke On the wheezing of the wind when I awoke A pyre of memory Some fly-tipped treasury Out there burning slow Dark soaked fields And the snuffling wet noses at my heels Suddenly hackles raise At the crackling of the blaze Out there burning slow
And sometimes I catch him With his axe in The shadow So secretive and private, But I’m breathing in his life when He’s out there burning slow
What a hoard It should be wild, It should be where wanderers walk That hidden wood of green The lake that he gatekeeps Yet I know not what for I would tread, Build a fire and make the forest floor my bed I would forage for my meal, And in doing start to heal But instead All the time I covet What he covers By the hedgerow So secretive and private, But I’m breathing in his life when He’s out there burning slow
And sometimes I catch him With his axe in The shadow So secretive and private, But I’m breathing in his life when He’s out there burning slow
#parispaloma #cacophonyParis Paloma - triassic love song [Official Lyric Video]Paris Paloma2024-08-30 | New album "Cacophony" out now: parispaloma.ffm.to/cacophony
This morning I emerged Onto wet earth It had been raining And while it had been raining You and I we had been lying And while we had been lying In the warmth we had been falling Into slumber, with the thunder overhead In the cave we laid down to the rain sounds On your window Intermingled with the blood-rush Of our love flush in our sinew Sleep joined us in the lamplight As a fire in a campsite But we set no-one to watch With our guard down
What a lovely hiding place That you have made To delay our parting What a world outside To keep each other safe from That’s all that I want, darling. That’s all that I want, darling.
You hold me in the burrow Your brow furrowed in your dreaming And at the time the flood comes And our blood runs Cold and bleeding you’d lie, womblike And in your arms I’d cease my breathing With broken ribs And one last kiss, I would die here warm
What a lovely hiding place That you have made To delay our parting What a world outside To keep each other safe from That’s all that I want, darling. That’s all that I want, darling.
There was confusion And there were flames I had always felt the fire call my name But this was different I could taste the fear And the sweet release As the end of all drew near I will never understand why
Why, They shot me off a dying planet In a tin-sized escape pod There was room only for a bed and porthole That I watched my home explode from The com-link’s open But there’s no one Tuned in on the other side Why did I deserve to live? Did I just deserve to watch them die
Oh why did I?
In those first hours No one heard me Scream at the hateful, cold eternity And I have been floating Ever since then With nobody but the darkness as my friend And if they had asked me I wouldn’t have agreed
That it was the right thing when they
Shot me off a dying planet In a tin-sized escape pod There was room only for a bed and porthole That I watched my home explode from The com-link’s open But there’s no one Tuned in on the other side Why did I deserve to live? Did I just deserve to watch them die
Oh why did I?
(They shot me off a dying planet In a tin-sized escape pod…)
What was it that stayed my hand then? With dagger held unsheathed Blade pointing in its side I’d been set upon by a predator It was just looking for a meal I saw ribs and fearful eyes
What is it that stays my hand now? With so much misery That I could mercifully put end to For that animal I let slink off Into the undergrowth, unscathed Do I not fear death, but just pretend to?
For it was starving It was hungry But had eyes too close to let me If you were easy to kill, I would have done it already
Plagued by phantom noises That that skeletal beast Was haunting all my steps
Questioning all my choices With that dagger held unsheathed I felt sick at my contempt
For you were lonely, You were like me Like some outside force had sent me If I was easy to kill, you would have done it already
You are at my feet We’re by the fire You’re a gentle beast And I’m alive You are at my feet We’re by the fire You’re a gentle, purring beast And I’m alive You are at my feet and we’re by the fire You’re a healthy, gentle, purring beast And I’m alive
You are at my feet and we’re by the fire You’re a healthy, gentle, purring beast And I’m alive You are at my feet and we’re by the fire You’re a healthy, gentle, purring beast And I’m alive You are at my feet (you were starving) and we’re by the fire (you were hungry) You’re a healthy, gentle, purring beast (but had eyes too close to let me) if you were easy to kill I would have done it already
The deft, agile fingers In firelight flicker Skin laced in wrinkles that made needles sing There, love is concreted With quietened breathing Simple entwining of intimate string It’s a beautiful thing At stockinged knees sitting I watching, her knitting Intent on her fixing my little hands’ mess She’s sure she can save it Even with hands shaking She had such a patience that I don’t possess I was such a small pest
let us sit, so quietly, in firelight I know you’d die for me How gentle can our violence be ‘Tween finger and thumb I’m sorry I’m repetitive Don’t mind I keep forgetting it So long as its my thread Not the depths of her love
Two girls in their twenties slowed down getting ready As one said “please help me, For its cold tonight.”
In our undergarments She passed me the scarf and Said “I never learned how to cast off right” For a moment I swore that The light that I saw as She handed the wool with a smile in the gloom Was the firelight form from the glow I was taught in On grandmother’s hands in the cottage sitting room Of course I’ll cast off for you let us sit, so quietly, in firelight I hope you’d die for me How gentle can our violence be ‘Tween finger and thumb I’m sorry I’m repetitive Don’t mind you keep forgetting it So long as its your thread Not the depths of my love
I will break upon you Like a wave upon a rock I never burn bridges I just laden them with locks I’m a smothering lover Under my love’s weight it crumbles Falls into the ravine Alone you stand, an island I’ll fill the space between
Dearest ocean, do you get upset when The cliffs don’t come out to meet ya? Are you a people pleaser? Darling moonbeam, Do you ever want to scream When the sun runs before you can see her? Are you a people pleaser?
I’d walk for twenty miles I’d draw from empty wells There is a river flowing right outside The cabin where I dwell I’d have plenty if you let me
Dearest ocean, do you get upset when The cliffs don’t come out to meet ya? Are you a people pleaser? Darling moonbeam, Do you ever want to scream When the sun runs before you can see her? Are you a people pleaser?
Video Credits: Director/Producer/Editor: Ling Yu Director of Photography: Cassius Kane 1st AC: Joshua Baylis Gaffer: Kenneth Liew Spark: Fin Grover Stylist: Leith Clark HMUA: Emma Regan Runner: Sanjoli Malani Colorist: Mara Ciorba Color Producer: Andrew Irwin Color House: Harbor Manager: Josh Sanger Day to Day Management: Ellie Spilker Label: Nettwerk Music Group
Lyrics:
Cremate me Deliver me to safety So that when it’s spent maybe It will be my own
Scatter ashes Leave no marker where you plant it So the hordes will be disbanded as they search On a treasure map for my headstone
Leave me to the beasts and bears I’d rather that the feast was theirs They can’t reserve neighbouring plots Or request to be buried on top Leave me for a day or two To make sure that I turn blue For the first time since I drew breath, I’m undesirable again
I’ll tattoo it Just so they think it’s ruined and if they think it’s ruined It’s easier to save But please hurry If you really love me you’ll dispose of me Unceremoniously in the waves
Leave me to the trees and air I’d rather that the feast was theirs They can’t reserve neighbouring plots Or buy cuttings of my priceless locks Leave me for two days or three ’Til my fingertips turn green For the first time since I drew breath I’m undesirable again
And they will come In such dismay That they never did discover where I lay And I will burn My flesh and form Screaming the words “it will never be yours” I’ll take the flame over desecration Promise you’ll make on these arrangements Don’t you dare think it’s overkill I wouldn’t wish the watching on anybody So if for that reason only Swear to me you will
Leave me to the beasts and bears I’d rather that the feast was theirs They can’t reserve neighbouring plots Or request to be buried on top Leave me for a day or two To make sure that I turn blue For the first time since I drew breath, I’m undesirable again
#parispaloma #cacophonylast woman on earth premiere this thursday at midnight bst❤️🔥 #parispaloma #cacophonyParis Paloma2024-08-27 | ...the album is almost yours x #newmusic #women #womeninmusic #lastwomanonearthParis Paloma2024-08-26 | ...His land x the fellowship of the ring #lordoftherings #newmusic #tolkien #lotr #folkmusic #editParis Paloma2024-08-24 | ...this song is for the paleontology girls. Out on my album on the 30th August. #folksong #paleontologyParis Paloma2024-08-23 | ...This album is my incredibly vulnerable body of work. I hope you hold it and it holds you #cacophonyParis Paloma2024-08-22 | ...out 30th August with my debut album. Pre order now❤️🔥#newmusic #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-08-20 | ...Song: knitting song, out with my album on the 30th August #girlhood #bedroom #knitting #sentimentalParis Paloma2024-08-19 | ...Thank you for connecting with this song so strongly already #manvsbear #newmusic #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-08-18 | ...Song: triassic love song, on my debut album “Cacophony” out August 30th #debutalbum #natureParis Paloma2024-08-17 | ...Head to @publicopinionnyc to watch my full acoustic performance!! #trackstar #acousticParis Paloma2024-08-16 | ...This song has had a long evolution, I hope you enjoy it on August 30th #newmusic #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-08-15 | ...GET YOUR BEAUTIFUL VINYLS ❤️❤️❤️ #debutalbum #newmusic #vinylParis Paloma2024-08-13 | Subscribe to Paris Paloma's YouTube channel: parispaloma.ffm.to/ytsubscribe
#parispalomaAnd the album will finally be out on the 30th August! im so grateful for all of you❤️ #labourParis Paloma2024-08-12 | ...This video is incredibly deceased wife core #newmusic #debutalbum #cacophonyParis Paloma2024-08-11 | ...Can’t wait for you to hear this one. #newmusic #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-08-10 | ...The response to this song has been so powerful. I can’t wait for this album to be yours #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-08-09 | ...I cannot wait for the fruits of my labour to be yours❤️ #labour #parispaloma #cacophonyParis Paloma2024-08-07 | ...I wanted to share this as just an acknowledgment of how far ive come❤️🔥 thank you #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-08-06 | ...The album is out this month folks #cacophony #parispaloma #newalbumParis Paloma2024-08-05 | ...thank you @marlene.arts for this incredible animation✨ #thewarmth #parispalomaParis Paloma2024-08-02 | ...