Elizaveta Ephemeris

Rolling Stone - New Song, Video & Lyrics

So here it is:

 

Full interview version for when it premiered on Glamour.com can be read HERE.

 

Looked me in the eye

Made me feel so small

But you're the only one

who can see me at all

Is it who we are?

what am I to you?

Have we gone too far -

am I passing through?

 

I'm a rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling stone

Always moving, traveling, running all alone

I'm a rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling stone

 

Maybe I was born with a gypsy's soul

but I am not your girl, oh no

I don't play that role

I'm no mother, I'm no sister, I'm no lover

I am not your friend

I have built a home

but it's made of sand

 

I'm a rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling stone

Always moving, traveling, running all alone

I'm a rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling stone

 

Looked me in the eye

Made me feel so small

But you're the only one

who can see me at all...

NYC II

The City can't decide whether it wants it to rain or not. After the deluge of yesterday, it is still pondering, so I did get rained on a couple of times throughout the day, but it was very minor. All in all, I do prefer this weather to the stifling heat of yesterday.

Obviously it's all about me, so theretofore I brought the rain to NYC, didn't I? Anecdotal evidence: when I was in Austin, performing, we arrived to heat and three-month draught. Within 12 hours of my arrival, a thunderstorm came to pass (short, but effective), and the day was saved. 

Maybe not all my doing, but a girl can feel important: why not?

After getting rained on and finding refuge in a French bar:

I found shoes! Fortunately for me, it's sales season. Gloves, shoes, flower dress and NYC is my oyster...err... apple. Right??

Tomorrow is my performance and I am in the mood. Let's do this. Tonight I'll read some poetry and try to imagine what it is going to be like when I come and stay in NYC for a whole month, doing a residency - it's in the plans - being here certainly makes me want to dress up and strut a lot more than Los Angeles ever has. It could be dangerous! But life is short. Why not?

 

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
(Michelangelo)

NYC

I am in NYC, and after riding bikes in Central Park and getting a near heatstroke (try climbing a hill on a bike in humid 100 degrees!), I went to my rehearsal and found myself racing down the street through a thunderstorm. As we rehearsed in a cubby hole underground, the roof started leaking. So, all in all a day of brilliant adventure, which also included great food, which is not at all unusual in New York.

In other news, my iTunes Session Release has climbed the charts and here I am at #13:

We also re-mastered & re-released my older EP Breakfast with Chopin - you can now find it on iTunes and it deserves a whole separate blog entry for itself, but for now, here is the new video we just made for the title track. We enjoyed doing this and I am glad Breakfast with Chopin now has a video all its own.

 

 

Tomorrow I am doing some press, rehearsing some more and Friday is the show. I'll be happy to celebrate this release in NYC, the city where I was born. It doesn't ever make it easy for me, but I love it very much. Who wants easy anyway? Not me. Ok, sometimes. But tonight I am here, I can feel and hear the buzz of the Big Apple and I am looking forward to the next two days.

iTunes Live!

July 17, 2012

My iTunes Live Session is out today!

That includes videos of the songs, as well as audio: stream the videos for free courtesy of iTunes HERE.

Thank you to iTunes, Mike Valerio (music director), Sonus Quartet and everyone who made it possible, including Piper Ferguson for taking such great photos.

Here is a little Q&A Mike and I did about the session/EP:

 

 

"BEATRIX RUNS" physical digipac, with a hand-illustrated poster, is now available on AMAZON.COM! Click HERE to purchase.

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new song lyrics

Perhaps another time

 

Pictures in a magazine of places you have never seen

you cut them out and put them on the wall

in a faded photograph a perfect moment makes you laugh

but memories can make you feel so small

 

There'll be sunlight on the snow in places we will never go

on mountains we will never ever climb

there will be a price to pay

for every single wasted day you chose to say: perhaps another time

 

hostage of my own world I dream of oysters and their pearls

I always pick the wrong one in the end

with all the roads for us to take

I always find the one that's fake

and build my perfect castles on the sand

 

And we will never catch that train

somewhere in Scotland in the rain

grab the sun and flip it like a dime

there will be a price to pay

for every single wasted day when we said: perhaps another time

 

so all those days will run together

perfect shade of black & white

me, I thought I'd live forever

and fill my life with light

 

there'll be sunlight on the snow

in places I will never go

on mountains I will never ever climb

there will be a price to pay

for every single wasted day I said to you: perhaps another time

 

Cluttered floors inside my room

I wake up and it's half past noon

inside this dungeon, telephone is king

maybe I should catch a plane before they tell me I'm insane

join a circus, maybe learn to sing

 

And maybe we will catch that train

somewhere in Scotland, in the rain

grab the sun and flip it like a dime

never knowing what we'll find

we'll ride the wind and glance behind

but never say: perhaps another time.

 

Perhaps another time

Perhaps another time

perhaps another time.

(EIK, July 2012)