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Hoja Lopez / Limb - Shieldless Soldier (in hives) / I Was Refused Remix

from VISIONS & REVISIONS by C.J. Boyd Remixed

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about

This song first appeared on the album Shunpike in 2004. On that version, I play an acoustic bass guitar, and Libby Kirkpatrick sang layers of wordless vocals over it. In 2010, I recorded a new version of it on electric bass for the project Your Bones, which consists of Jim Edwards and Hoja Lopez, and sometimes me. Hoja wrote lyrics to the song which took it in a direction I never imagined. James Templeton (Limb) then remixed this new version. I've combined the tracks, attaching James' remix to the track Hoja and I made, since the transition between them is so seemless.

lyrics

drunk in hives
sweaty in the cold
in my old clothes
I wanted to be comfortable

My limbs fell hard
on the small of your neck
and the wine in your body left you
I'm not lifeless, just unsure.

Their cigarette remains
in the face that I remember
seems to leave me chores.
It went forward.

And if I see a hundred lashes,
that reminds me of yours.
I'm drunk in hives
and I can't quite recognize
the untruths,
the dirty war wounds.
But you begged me onward.
Or was it to her?

Her long hair
made you unfocused and unsure.
My limbs fell hard
on the small of your neck.
And the wine in your body left you
so when the dehydration set in,
told them all it was an accident.

I'm drunk in hives
and my hands have their own birthdays.
They belong to the mothers
until they turn of age.

My arms belong to the convent
where all the soldiers
make their decisions for them.
I'm not lifeless, just unsure.
I'm drunk in hives.
And my name belongs to
all the other times I was refused.

(Lyrics by Hoja Lopez)

credits

from VISIONS & REVISIONS, track released December 11, 2010
First half: Bass = CJ,
Vocals = Hojamanda Lopez.
Second half:
everything reworked by Limb (James Templeton).

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