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Lithuania

from Tatterhood by Hana Zara

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Written in March/April of 2013. I began writing Lithuania while living in Brooklyn with an immigrant family from Belarus. They had many stories to share from Eastern Europe, and I found them wildly inspiring. This song also exists as kind of a culmination of several themes on the album… letting go, emptiness, dreams, new York city, the ocean... (With Taylor Smith on harmonies and guitar)

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I dreamed last night I found you half alive but mostly dead
and that I pulled you from the ashes of your dark opium den
And that slowly you got better in the comfort of my care
but I knew even in my dreaming I could never keep you there

You’d go on searching for your ghost of a love
Some bright girl from Lithuania
She’ll sing her songs to pull you home
And you’ll feel the aching in your Baltic bones

There’s a place on the horizon where the ocean meets the earth
Now she will give and take forever till the elements disperse
But it never feels that fair inside this city by the sea
It’s like the more it give to her the more she tries to take from me

Till I started thinking I was born with a curse
Because I loved the living version of St. Petersburg
And when I’m landlocked and alone
I still fine myself aching for your city made of stone

But the winds blew through the streets
And they pulled the tiny wreckage of my vessel out to sea
In search of meaning, in search of truth
It turns out I was only looking for myself in you

So I lay in bed this morning half awake and half asleep
And there I told you all the secrets that my lips could never speak
Oh and then I let you go, you pulled away from me like fog
I guess I needed that goodbye to know you’d been there all along

And I realized in moments such as this
I have always felt the gravity of my own emptiness
Like when I saw you without the mask, I only saw my very own reflection staring back
And that’s all I ever want, is to see beyond the distance we think separates us all
And into love we will not fall, we will dissolve

So go on searching for your ghost of a love
Some bright girl from Lithuania
She’ll sing her songs to wake you up
And you’ll feel the music in your Baltic blood
She’ll sing her songs to pull you home
And you’ll feel the aching in your Baltic bones

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from Tatterhood, released September 3, 2013
Taylor Smith on harmonies and guitar
Recorded by Tommy Alexander at Jenke Studios

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Hana Zara is an an evolving collection of musical thought-bytes, worlds turned inside-out, and the scattered debris of our psychic oneness

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