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Keep Your Mind On Me

from Sweet Pea by Lila Blue

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I wrote Keep Your Mind On Me in the thick of the pandemic, a few months after frantically packing up my life and moving back in with my parents. While living with them, my father would repeat a phrase from time to time: “Just keep me in mind, would you?” Something about it stuck with me, and around May of 2020, amidst ruminating on all those who’d already passed on or those who had lost parents during the pandemic, I started to write from the perspective of a parent on their own death and the hindsight they could have on their relationship with their child. After I wrote Keep Your Mind On Me, a thought began to take root in me that I wanted to make this record, so whenever I hear it and the beautiful capturing of it that occurred in Nashville over a year later, I think about how far that small seed of a dream has come.

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I seemed to have to slipped
I remember the cold ground and your eyes
And then nothing more
I feel like a fish
Who's been swimming for so long
Only to spawn upon the river's floor
So I know that I am gone
And there's nothing left to carry on
But if you could, my darling
Would you keep your mind on me
I will watch from someplace above
Where I'll get to see the beauty you become
Then while I do I'd like it if you could
Keep your mind on me
For you, my love was like blood
That easy, pulsing thing
Unrelenting in it's quiet course through our veins
Ever since the slip and the thud
All I remember are the small days of pure content
That life seems to love to drive away
Yes, I know that I am gone
And I'm no longer there to lean upon
If only you knew, I'm still here with you
If you keep your mind on me
I will watch you while you bloom
And hope that you don't join me up here soon
While you're down there I hope you can bear
To keep your mind on me
Those mindless, lovely days will not come back
I cannot recall the day you stopped being small enough to hold
I'd do anything to backtrack
But I can't
So my mind will be with you
'till the day you've grown old
Yes I know I am gone
And I'm sure I did some things wrong
But if you could, my darling
would you keep your mind on me
I will watch from way up high
And hope that one day I'll catch your eye
But until then I hope you can
Keep your mind on me

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from Sweet Pea, released November 10, 2023
Written by Lila Blue Coley / Lila Blue Music (ASCAP)

Vocals - Lila Blue
Bass - Saskia Lane
Viola - Ashley Frith
Violin - Phil Roebuck
Acoustic Guitar - Lila Blue
Producer - Jordan Brooke Hamlin
Recording & Mixing Engineer - Jordan Brooke Hamlin
Assistant Recording Engineer - Lake Wilkinson
Mastering Engineer - Jett Galindo

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Lila Blue New York, New York

LILA BLUE (they/she) is a 23 year old non-binary and queer folk musician, singer-songwriter, playwright and performer based out of Brooklyn. Their projects navigate themes of grief, joy, intergenerational trauma, rage, queerness and collisions with divine and haunted spirits, stemming from their own intuitive practices. They've released 3 LP’s, 2 EP’s, with LP 4, SWEET PEA, arriving 11/10/23 ... more

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