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Hold Me Still (Hold Me Fast)

from Main Street Lights by Vicious Petals

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    Enjoy the full-length album, mastered for vinyl, on two deluxe 180-gram LPs. Full color gatefold jacket with insert.

    Main Street Lights, Vicious Petals’ first release, was recorded on two-inch tape at Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, WA. In this span of songs, Smith brings his powerful and earnest voice forward with an equally deep range in his guitar. Both are wonderfully complemented, anchored, and (at times) put on a leash by Okano’s heartbreaking, virtuosic, and frequently fierce piano.

    The record is an ambitious full-length album recorded with producer Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile) and engineer Jerry Streeter (Secret Sisters, Brandi Carlile). The arrangements are broad in their instrumentation, reflecting the duo’s ease working across genre and style. Painting with a broad palette of tone and arrangement, Okano and Smith give each of their compositions the perfect framework for eloquent expression.

    Produced by Ryan Hadlock
    Additional production by Jerry Streeter
    Recorded and mixed by Ryan Hadlock and Jerry Streeter
    Additional engineering/mix assistance by Taylor Carroll
    Assistant engineers: Taylor Carroll, Tye Hastings, Brighton Pruss
    All songs recorded and mixed at Bear Creek Studio, Woodinville WA
    Mastered by Lurssen Mastering, Los Angeles CA

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lyrics

Lover please, I’m on my knees
Tell me no, twist the knife so very slow
See me run
So undone
While I stare onto you never more

Hold me still, hold me fast
Dream a dream so everlasting
I’ll walk away sullenly
Hold me still, hold me fast
Dream a dream so everlasting
I’ll walk away sullenly

Even in rain my fire quivers like a snake
It pains, it takes, your breathe, it wants to bait
On its hook
To keep you shook
Clasp you in its grasp, oh so serene

Hold me still, hold me fast
Dream a dream so everlasting
I’ll walk away sullenly
Hold me still, hold me fast
Dream a dream so everlasting
I’ll walk away sullenly

Flinting lips, wet and unstitched
Sweet fragrant pulls and grips
Hours ache
With tensed pace
Flushed steam upon your fingertips
Petals flood soft flesh in windfall
Flowers bloom and reach so tall
For your light
Pallor bright
Gonna take the leaves and stems, roots and all

Hold me still, hold me fast
Dream a dream so everlasting
I’ll walk away sullenly
Hold me still, hold me fast
Dream a dream so everlasting
I’ll walk away sullenly

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from Main Street Lights, released August 26, 2016
words by C. Smith / music & arrangement by C. Smith & A. Okano

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Vicious Petals Seattle, Washington

Led by songwriters Cooper Smith and Ayako Okano, Vicious Petals plays songs full of grit and beauty, darkness and light, love and loss.

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