Name: I Just Want You to Know (Single)
Duration: P00H04M35S
Description: This is a song about self-preservation, resilience, holding ourselves accountable for the hurt that we have caused and learning to heal, as an individual, as a family and as a people.

I Just Want You to Know (Single)

by Slow Ships

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This is a song about self-preservation, resilience, holding ourselves accountable for the hurt that we have caused and learning to heal, as an individual, as a family and as a people.

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When you were a child
you moved like that dancer
She who held your eyes to the stage
with sparkling bangles,
graceful body

My sweet boy
dressed as woman
dancing on a queen-sized bed
You can't do that
Yeah looking like that
in front of everybody
I felt new, ma
Uh huh
Uh huh, uh huh

She was gonna be a journalist
but became a housewife

And there never was
a singer in the family
So how can you think it
living in this country
with that colour
all over your skin
You can't do that
Yeah singing like that
in front of everybody
I felt new, ma
Uh huh
Uh huh, uh huh
Uh huh
Uh huh, uh huh

Late one night in shadow
you told me a secret

When we were boys
there were things that I said to you
that made you afraid
to tell me

I know
I said those things
Anyway, I'm sorry
I'll never do that.
Nuh huh
Uh huh, huh

I just want you to know
how much I love you

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released February 14, 2019
Written by Rubaiyat Howlader • Produced by Shannon Haritos, and Peter Holz • Engineered, mixed and mastered by Peter Holz • Vocals and guitars performed by Rubaiyat Howlader • Synths performed by Shannon Haritos • Percussion and programming by Shannon Haritos and Peter Holz • Photograph by Thea Elder

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Slow Ships Sydney, Australia

From nocturnal odes to lilting hymns, Slow Ships draws on themes from the natural world, memory, creatures and places, family trauma, self & cultural identity, ultimately weaving
narratives of love, unfolding, and the juxtapositioning of inner and outer worlds.

"Sublime" - Lachlan Wyllie, Chiefly Sounds.

“Deep, personal storytelling” - Maia Bilyk, FBi Radio 94.5FM ... more

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