TINY MESS • Silent Battles (Full EP)

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00:00 • The other side of the ocean
03:15 • Dancing in an elevator
06:48 • Trees grow both ways
09:46 • Cold
13:12 • One
16:57 • Credits

• CREDITS •

Music & lyrics: TINY MESS
Arrangements & production: Titouan Demereau-Deveau
Arrangements & production of final track "One": Lilian Mille

Recorded and mixed by Clément Baysse at the Studio de l'Orangerie (Dourdan, France)

With the participation of
Béla Bluche
Nirina Lecoules
Barry O'Connell
Pax Ó Faoláin

A short film made alongside:
Skopika Production
   / @skopikaproduction9660  

Director & chief editor: Dorian Cruz
Director & editor, photography & camera: Guillaume Imbert
Photgraphy & camera: Tristan Moraton
Lighting assistant: Corentin Thiburs

Set design: Léa Martineaud
Assistant set design: Séléna Frisch

Costume design for tracks "Trees grow both ways" and "Cold": Bérénice Tuttin
Make-up: Lydie Alabert

Featuring the dancers and performers:
Aerobatics & dance, for the track "One": Kenza Rautureau
Dance & choreography, for the track "Dancing in an elevator": Emma Müller
Dance & choreography, for the track "Dancing in an elevator": Mathéo Lardat

Aerobatics security: Sonja Berg

Production and set design assistant: Matthieu Audubert
Production assistant: Margaux Fourage

Set photographer & videographer: Juliette Bellini

Catering: Bernie Calatayud


• LYRICS •

• The other side of the ocean •

I saw you standing on the shore
From the other side of the ocean
I heard you calling for my love
From the other side of the ocean

I found you hunting down the days
That you knew you’d been hurt from
And the sleepless nights from which you fell
Couldn’t weigh out the absence

[Chorus]
Be faithful, be true
I will come back to you
Be patient, be strong
It’s just a little pond

And now I know it wasn’t all only about being afraid
And I hope I was a friend and not just someone who could hurt


• Dancing in an elevator •

Dancing in an elevator
Late at night
What a strange moment for an endeavor
To come to light

Moving through this sour surrender
Memories still tasting bitter
Fighting to believe that she was right
Striving to own herself again
Drinking ‘till her fears are poisoned
Will she ever find a way to rise

Promising how much he loved her
Every night
What a strange way for such a young boy
To tell a lie

Breaking her with his own weakness
Laying on her a learned sickness
Staining mind and body with new shame
Giving in the darkest hours
To all the pain which he could not cure
Determined to believe this wasn’t wrong

Dancing in an elevator
Late at night
What a common place for an endeavor
To come to life

Moving through this sour surrender
Memories still tasting bitter
Fighting to believe that she was right
Striving to own herself again
Drinking ‘till her fears are poisoned
Will she ever find a way to rise


• Trees grow both ways •

Trees grow both ways
And I cannot believe that it is another way
Searching for a truth but finding just yourself
Look me in the eye and tell me that you’ve found it

Climbing up to the highest branches
On the days of your best wishes
Then falling right down to the roots
On the days you’ve found
No proof

Trees grow both ways
And I cannot believe that there is a single fate
Prayers to the skies with feet stuck down to Earth
We’re the only ones to cry for what we’re worth

Clinging on again to the highest branches
Hoping they will hold through your big heart-ache
Looking back on days when you were just a kid
Haven’t you ever known what a bold lie is

Trees only learn to fly by digging in deeper
How could we ever feel we could be any wiser
Our pride will disappear as they watch us all surrender
Nostalgia for a day that only we’d remember


• Cold •

I am so cold
I am so cold without you

Even though I’m the one who
Chose this loneliness rather than you
Even though I’m the one who
Put you in this dark night too

I am so cold
I am so cold without you

This was not a storm we had to get through
It was the absence of wind
Blowing into my wings

I’m sorry that I’m the one who
Couldn’t stand apart without losing my truths
I know that you are strong
But no one is enough to love for two

I am so cold
I am so cold without you


• One •

Pull me away from the darkness
Jealousy like a beast hunting me down
That steals away the promise of a prize
Then puts me down still screaming like a child

Hear this pain that I sing
It’s the same you have forced upon your reign
Two should apart crying the same tears
None of my words are new to you, my Queen,

[Chorus]
We can fight on, fight over
Over all that we have done
Over who we have become
Or fight as one
We are rivals in battle
As enemies of a chase
After all that we have raced

Seize this hand that I hold out
I alone can tell the nature of your doubts
I know your truths, your treasons and your smiles
The ones you hold before you hit the ground

You are so beautiful
How could I go against you?