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INVISIBLE LABOR

from DOMESTIKA by SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES

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Bjork reference:
My Family (Vulnicura)
Select Lyrics by Kate McCandless

I was just really inspired by those few lines in Bjork's song "Family" from Vulnicura. "Is there a place...where I can pay respect...to the death of my family." Just that moment of grief.

I wanted to capture the feeling of grief of being on the other side of Motherhood. Having gone through the threshold. You are a different person; You grieve the person you were. You grieve the lack of respect and honor and ceremony in your culture for Birth and Motherhood. It really weighs on you.
I wanted to take the song from this micro level of that experience, that grief, to the macro level of singing from the perspective of Mother Earth. Of ALL the Mother Ancestors coming to this woman's aid and being her advocate. Really pointing the finger at society and saying "NOW SIT DOWN AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!"

The work of the Mother is so often invisible. Taken for granted. Whether it's the every day Mother taking care of her children, her household, or our Mother Earth who's natural systems we abuse. This song is like ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

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Is there a place…
Where I

Where I can pay respect,
To the

To the Woman who was…
Show some
Show some respect.

Is there a place
Where I

Where I can pay respect,
To the

To the Woman who Was
Show some
Show some respect.

To the blushing bride
Show some
To the optimistic girl
Show some
To the naive Mother-
to-be

Show some respect.

So Where
Did I go?

Did I disappear?

Into Ether?
I fall down
Tumble down
on
my
knees

PLEAD
for
Answers

PLEAD
for
Honor

PLEAD
for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Of my
Invisible
Of My
Invisible
Of my
Invisible

Labor

IS THERE A PLACE
WHERE WE CAN PAY RESPECT
TO THE MOTHER WHO WORKS

SHOW SOME RESPECT

To the Warrior coming home
Show her respect.
Lay a crown on her head
She some respect.

BUT WHERE….DID SHE GO…?
DID SHE DISAPPEAR
OR DID YOU
TAKE FOR GRANTED?
HER LABOR
MAKING THIS
ALL

HAPPEN

PLEAD
FOR ANSWERS
PLEAD
FOR HONOR
DEMAND
SOME STRUCTURE
TO SUPPORT HER

INVISIBLE

OF HER
INVISIBLE
OF HER
INVISIBLE

LABOR




See Me.



See Her.

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from DOMESTIKA, released May 8, 2020

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SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES Chicago, Illinois

Described by Sasha Geffen as "Best Feminist Rock n' Roll Exorcism" SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES is ARTIST/VOCALIST Kate McCandless. Armed with voice and looping pedal and a fierce, shamanic energy, SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES lures with nostalgia - simultaneously embracing and questioning its comfort and authority with a dark, feminist bent. ... more

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