incantation
I MARRIED FOR LOVE
I FOUGHT AND I WON
I MUST STAY PATIENT HAPPY LOVING AND FUN
2023-07-01 21:02:07 +0000 UTC View Post
TORRES posts
demoland <3
did i say the wrong thing
just like me to overheat
if i don't eat then i don't sing
there's too much me in my body
never too early for a drink
everyone quiet so i can think
i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more i want more
don't misunderstand me please
whatever you think you believe
you will not erase me
i...
2023-06-28 19:02:00 +0000 UTC View Postgreener stretch
Been playing this one live recently--both in august last year with the band and solo last month on a house show tour. I've always been fond of it and i'm hoping to bring some new life to it on upcoming shows-- ps Kate Bush was my main inspo for this song --suspended in gaffa feeling was was i was after! love, mackenzie
2023-06-11 17:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Too Big For the Glory Hole—rehearsal
Unlisted link for y’all. I haven’t ever played this song live and I’m going to this week! I hope everyone is having a healing and beautiful May.
Love,
Mackenzie
2023-05-16 18:18:50 +0000 UTC View PostTORRES LIVE IN ZĂśRICH
Recorded September 3, 2022 at Rote Fabrik, one of my favorite venues in the world! Erin Manning on synth bass/keys/vocals, J.R. Bohannon on pedal steel and guitar, and Rosie Slater on drums. Hopefully I'll get to turn this one into a physical release in the not-so-far-off distance. Love to all of you,
Mackenzie
2023-03-08 17:37:59 +0000 UTC View PostJerk into joy (demo)
I didn’t sing today because I didn’t have a song in my heart
It’s our third spring in the house
Our first without you
If I could get out of my way maybe I’d find a place to start
When I can’t pull the words from my mouth
I’ve got to choose to
Jerk into joy (when the light goes out)
Jerk into joy (when plans go south)
Left her in the driveway in the car you thought you’d left in park
When it started to roll she jumped out and ...
2023-02-17 14:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostForever home! (demo)
born to the swamps and the cypress trees
Florida baby just like me
few screws runnin loose in the family
Baby girl McConnell
Was all they wrote on the certificate of birth
Half a name
No shoes no shirt
The void is not your only friend
Baby Girl will bring you in
Give you a name
A name of your own a forever home!
A name of your own a forever home!
A name of your own a forever home!
A name of your own a for...
2023-01-16 17:22:21 +0000 UTC View Postcollect (demo)
I know what you expect
You expect to be first
You claim what you didn’t earn
Is that what you deserve?
Is that what you deserve?
Don’t sleep yet
My hunger’s whet
I’ve laid the ground
Now I’m makin rounds
Want to know what’s next?
Colossal success
Justice is coming
Know it and relax
Did I hit a nerve?
Did I hit a nerve?
Did I hit a nerve?
Did I hit a nerve?
I am nothing you’ve se...
2022-12-29 20:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostWhat then?
If you live every day ready for the world to end
Then you’re gonna make it happen
What if there’s no hot pink showdown coming?
What if the earth keeps on turning?
What then? What then?
The most dangerous lie’s the one you most want to believe
You wind up saying, “Well that’s close enough to the truth for me”
What if there’s no hot pink showdown coming?
What if the earth keeps on turning?
What then? What then?
It feels l...
2022-11-21 16:05:56 +0000 UTC View PostWho doesn't?
Girl I love you
You’re so beautiful
It hollows me out
Girl I want you
For longer than
I’ll have a body
You say I need reassuring
Who doesn’t?
You say I crave reassurance
Who doesn’t?
Someday it’s all going to end
Girl I love you
You’re so beautiful
It hollows me out
Girl I want you
For longer than
I’ll have a body
You say I need reassuring
Who doesn’t?
You say I cr...
2022-11-10 15:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostSkim solo
I just found this drawing of the guitar solo from my song “Skim”. I think I was making these drawings as far back as 2015, when I first started writing that song. It’s not easy to explain it but I saw it as architecture and the notes I was playing were bricks for a house. This is what it looked like to me. Anyway, feeling weird these days. What about y’all? Lots of love and warmth ♥️
M
2022-10-26 15:12:28 +0000 UTC View Posthappy man's shoes (demo)
Old dirt road
Brand new moves
The me of yesterday hadn’t a clue
Today I’d be baby blue
Struttin to the fountain in a happy man’s shoes
When you lost me
We all lost
All I needed was your joy
Now I’m lookin at the sky
Same as lookin inside
No I do not accept your shame
I’ve got a way of not seeing the dead
Go ahead and call it unsuccess
It’s not like it’s your demise
Babe, my star’s just on the r...
2022-09-28 18:41:45 +0000 UTC View Postwake to flowers
Months of Sundays
Coffee stains
I see them comin miles away
Loneliness
Deaths of pets and parents
You know they’re lurking in the wings
But the morning sun that lights your cheek
The way you smile with your teeth
The way you hold me way too tight when we sleep
Is this my life?
I’m surprised, I’m surprised
Didn’t know I’d wake to flowers
After goin to sleep to rain
2022-09-17 23:50:54 +0000 UTC View PostSome tour sights
that didn’t make it onto the grid. 3 shows left. Love y’all 💋
2022-09-01 10:36:37 +0000 UTC View PostEU tour starts next week in Leeds!
https://torresmusicofficial.com/tour
Can't wait to see you <3
Mackenzie
2022-08-12 13:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Chains (aka an unedited short story I wrote in 2011)
“Nice guy, this one,” she mutters dryly under her breath, shooting a knowing glance in my direction. The balding Jeff from “Hawt Sprangs, Arkansaw” has been gradually losing his mind for the past hour-and-a-half in his attempt to charm my new friend Gwyneth into going home with him for the night. She isn’t having it. My eyes linger on her sardonic grimace, and I smile stupidly at what I believe to be a shared secret between the two of us. We have only just met, but I am a...
2022-05-16 22:16:03 +0000 UTC View Postugly mystery (demo)
Monette, Monette
I felt you suck the life from me
I won’t forget your apathy was such an ugly mystery
I watched myself vanish under vanity lighting
Hope is so violent and I knew you wouldn’t jump ship
Unless you saw another one coming
You said you needed plausible deniability
You said distinct was my perfume when it got into the sheets
So the bedroom was off limits by June
And I know it was mean leaving my toothbrush by the sink
...
2022-04-11 12:26:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Found from 2012
It’s supposed to bring
It’s supposed to be spring
But god does not care what it is supposed to be
2022-03-04 22:31:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe Monster (Take Back the Night)
I made a song for my friend's movie! The film is called Take Back the Night and it's directed by my dear Gia Elliot.
Out today in select theaters and VOD!
Follow @takebackthenightmovie @darkskyfilms on Instagram for details
Meditations That Might Not Help
Pt I
For the gift of consciousness, the price is immeasurable pain--you'll know it whether or not you can pay.
2022-03-02 22:02:18 +0000 UTC View Postpre supper joint
pre supper joint
I wear my winter blues reluctantly but with dignity
You lock the door behind me so as not to let the January into the house
When the wind shivers my way I feel for the key in my pocket
Fingering the ridges of the one cut just for me
The comfort of home and the hum of dinner and wine and love there awaiting my reentry
The snow is actually sparkling like in a painting and I smile because I’m actually happy
I want to be ...
2022-01-31 01:13:37 +0000 UTC View Post