New song sneak peek (also a movie??)

Hello my beautiful patrons,

I'm just now coming out of a VERY focused week. We wrote, produced and mixed this song in 5 days. We're still putting finishing touches on it, including a slight lyric change at the end.

This song is called "Lucky." It's a love song at it's core, but fundamentally it is about two women, Kathleen Lynn and Madeline Ffrench-Mullen. These were women who fought in the Irish Civilian Army in the Easter Rising of 1916. After they were imprisoned and deported they found their way back together and lived out the rest of their lives together. There are several examples of female couples living in plain sight (many of them members of the Irish Civilian Army and engaged in revolutionary activism) during this time period. It seemed natural that unmarried, childless, working women would need to support each other as they were so far on the outskirts of normal early 20th century Irish society. Recent scholarship of the last 5 years reveals that there was more to these relationships than just companionship and support. The lyrics in this song are taken from moments in Kathleen Lynn's journals.

I've been fascinated by these stories for a while, and amazed by how new the scholarship was. And one night last year I went down the deepest research rabbit hole ever and came out with a movie treatment. I am excited to start shopping it around to production companies this summer as there is already a lot of excitement for it. The movie truly wrote itself from first and second hand accounts only. These are some of the most remarkable women I've ever encountered, and I am so passionate about continuing to tell their story, and to tell it right.

For me, this song is a love song about the sacred mundanity of the Queer experience. I loved imaging the normality of two women growing old together, paying their bills, tending the garden. Our existence is a quiet revolution that has always existed, and it continues to inspire me.

Enjoy, loves xx

MKR

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Lyrics:

Turn in the low light to face me

Bodies still wet from the creek

Hair falling thick on my pillow

Curls in my palm black as ink

Holding my breath in this moment

The weight of it honest and true

Cause darling I’ve never been lucky

But somehow I’ve made it to you

Another year nearing at midnight

The bangs and the cheers in the smoke

A new world for us, dear, is dawning

With all the good days that we’re owed

You smile and you say come and kiss me

You’re gripping my hands as they shake

For the first time I count myself lucky

To live out a dream while I wake

You’ll be the one I call lover

And I’ll be the one at your side

We’ll make our meals in the evening 

And pay the old landlord on time 

Now walk with me out in the garden

Turn your face to the sun

Oh, Could you believe we’re so lucky

To live like we’ve already won

When the trees have gone bare in the winter

And the ink in your curls has run grey

I'll smile and I'll say come and kiss me

Soft as the end of the day

Cause somehow we made it out sweetly

Sure as sun and snow

They say life is long if you’re lucky

And darling I'd say we would know

They say life is long if you’re lucky

My darling, I'd say we would know