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Driven Creatures

by Laura Rafetseder

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1.
Running Wild 03:53
there's a feeling inside me deep deep down inside i don’t know how to hide it i don’t know where to go and it burns burns burns and it makes me climb the walls there's a tigress hunting locked inside these halls chorus she's running in circles she's running wild the cages are burning she's leaching out the locks are broken someone will get hurt and she's killing fast when she finds her prey she's just locked back in its never enough chorus and when she's done i wake again i’m me again i’m lost again
2.
the bluest hour has never been my friend it's a place where people go I got shellfish growing on my hand the colours permeate my dreams and at times i can never tell if I’m wrong or if im right you just act out what i feel but dare not say I’m just milk spilt on the floor chorus: save me from myself shave me off your skin tie me to a wall paint me on the floor i’m nowhere and it feels like home it's a place where people go the colours grow like a tangerine dream the biggest drug is taking risk and at times i suspect that i I’m a prisoner of myself I’m erased as i watch myself I’m just what i do right now chorus: peel me like a grape clear me from my skin put me back in place leave me while you can chorus: save me from myself shave me off your skin tie me to a wall paint me on the floor
3.
it’s a journey to myself and im trying to get there first it’s a journey through your eyes and it’s really not my first it’s just my heart that i should keep i need a heart i do what would i do without chorus: and i jump into oceans and dive down to the ground and i burn like fire it’s the wind that spreads me round and its fire at the bottom of the ocean fire at the bottom of my heart i need to recognise the pain to learn and i learn fast i get back up again and hold my head up in thirst i wanna know the shadows that hold me on the ground i wanna know the clouds that are made of shadows doubt chorus​ it’s a will that has been broken and a will to learn the truth I should sing or I shouldn’t who knows what I should do I feel like rivers and nights rolled into one I curse and I laugh, its just me that I got
4.
far as i know i lived my life like a child that never cries like a bird with broken wings like a bird that never sings looking for dreams that cannot last can it be love if it’s too fast confusion knows what i don’t know and if i go what will i know chorus: is it heaven is it hell what it is no one can tell is it you or is it me what will it be and now you look at me and sigh and i will never find out why if you don't tell me what you feel if you don't dare to be real will you love me as i am or will you leave me where i stand will you feel for me the same if you do just say my name chorus and the moment that we fall is the moment that we tell our story once again to a stranger we don’t know there's no wrong and there's no right just the sadness in your eyes just the longing in our songs just our longing to belong
5.
sitting here with my broken dreams and empty hands gonna tear down them stone built walls and be myself let them fall let them fall retreated to my inner most i can’t believe there’s nothing i could possibly ever see it’s only me inside of me the inner sea gonna be courageous and take the last step to fall into my life stain glass windows castles in the air i’ve dumped them all let them fall let them fall there’s nothing i could possibly ever see it’s only me inside of me the inner sea
6.
melodies move between us rhythms rise and fall the songs have always been there and some will stay i dreamed i opened up a door that said forbidden i fell five floors down and woke in your arms chorus: poison me dark butterfly in the morning i'll rise if you're lonely you'll tell the paper or just your guitar if you're unsure of the key you just sing your lines i dreamed i kissed slowly unsure of who i am we talked in different tongues and missed the kiss mid air chorus we seek each other like flowers seek the light you're a cloud in my sky im a wave on your sea you move inside me like lovers move at least in my story at least in my song
7.
You and Me 03:07
you and me, babe are like flowers we radiate when we're in bloom you and me, babe are like poems a black and white photograph at night your laughter resonates across the continents you sing beauty is made of love as we sleep i thought you were a strange cat when we first met but strange is who we are in the end you and me, babe are like rhythms it doesn’t matter if we're out of sync you and me, babe are a tune that's a little odd one i cannot lose though i try it doesn’t matter when or where we meet again you'll always be a song that i will sing in the bigger picture where we spin the earth we're all one and we are all the same you and me, babe on the wire you can hear us in the air tonight
8.
out under blue skies you cover me gently Italian nights with hints of mint i look at you blindly im hasty at showing myself i saw in your eyes those tears of mine chorus: tears of mine forever ago i'll trade them in for tears of yours the stars above us are nothing but silence they're softly spoken dreams we share this time i won’t fall no no i won’t fall I’d just fill your eyes with tears of mine chorus 2: tears of yours forever ago i'll trade them in for tears of mine
9.
jumping's always the first thing on my mind i jump off the rooftop my guitar in my hand and i emerge again from the waterfall and i climb back up for another fall don’t worry don’t worry about me this is where I wanna be right now though the water falls off the water walls we're free climbers of love close your eyes and hold my hand and join me in the air close your eyes and jump with me i promise i'll be there and we emerge again from the waterfall and we climb back up for another fall don’t worry don’t worry about us this is where we wanna be right now though the water falls off the water walls we're free climbers of love
10.
i’ve been high, I’ve been low, I’ve been bad i’ve taken a step out ahead i've been down to the ground of the deepest blue sea i got rid of the chains that've been laid upon me the lover who fled from my bed has been me has been you has been sad i’m a lover who walks out the door i’m a lover who sleeps on the floor chorus: i'm exciting and inviting i'm crazy and i'm bad i've been lovely, i've been hiding i’ve been lonely, i've been sad and just a little bit sublimely mad you're strange and familiar as well you're a stranger whose fate i can tell you're a stranger whose stories are ones i know well you're a stranger into whose arms i once fell chorus: you're exciting and inviting you're crazy and you're bad you've been lovely, you've been hiding you've been lonely, you've been sad and just a little bit sublimely mad we have nothing to fear but ourselves we have nothing to lose but our shells we have nothing to gain but the crown of the sea we have nothing to win but the wind in the trees

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Laura Rafetseder loves digging and diving deep. After swimming in the arctic sea (her album in 2016) she moves her attention to the inner oceans. On the bottom of those inner seas you can find burning fires spread by the wind as well as shadows in the dark (fire at the bottom of the ocean). But it's not only the fire that drives us and the depth that draws us towards it - we are also beasts of prey kept in cages (running wild) and dark butterflies (dark butterfly).

Modern life is complicated - online-dating opens a never ending flood of possibilities. The classic family model seems to work less and less, more and more people start looking for new forms of relationships - and clash with the boundaries of society. We are driven, but society tries to control us with do's and don't's instead of enabling us to find out who we really are and want to be.

Laura Rafetseder asks once more what love after capitalism could be like - in a society free of women's oppression, drive for profits and the economic chains that keep us from living the lives we want to live. Female sexuality is being reduced to a commodity. Women are punished if they cross the narrow limitations accepted by society by being who they are. How dangerous is it to expose yourself as a woman? How dangerous is it to show female desire? How do we protect ourselves from unwanted responses? Love after capitalism - it might be more elusive and we might be confronted with downsides, but without the violent side effects of class society.

The songs on driven creatures were the result of 3 years of online-dating, with ups and downs, meeting interesting people, falling in and out of love, making music, love and new friends - in short, a journey to oneself (fire at the bottom of the ocean). These are songs of desire, failure and excitement, but also uncertainty (what will it be). Because what will we find if we dive down to the bottom of the ocean? Nothing but ourselves (the inner sea). Loving yourself is not as easy as it sounds.

“What we can now conjecture about the way in which sexual relations will be ordered after the impending overthrow of capitalist production is mainly limited for the most part to what will disappear. But what will there be new? That will be answered when a new generation has grown up: a generation of men who never in their lives have known what it is to buy a woman’s surrender with money or any other social instrument of power; a generation of women who have never known what it is to give themselves to a man from any other considerations than what they really want. When these people are in the world, they will care precious little what anybody today thinks they ought to do; they will make their own practice and their corresponding public opinion about the practice of each individual – and that will be the end of it.”
Friedrich Engels, origin of the family

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released October 18, 2019

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Laura Rafetseder Vienna, Austria

Singer/Songwriter Laura Rafetseder has made herself a name among the Vienna Singer/Songwriter Scene with her band Laura & the Comrats and their debut album Creating Memories. In 2012 she released her first solo album The Minor Key Club, and in autumn 2016 second album Swimmers in the Arctic Sea. ... more

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