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Iris

by Lukas Ehlers

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Iris is a longing, soft song. It’s about trying to communicate with someone when you’re apart, writing letters to each other. It’s about imagining the moment when you meet again before it actually happens. I think a lot of my music takes place in a dreamlike world, and by thinking about this person they actually enter it and we’re there together for part of the song. In the song, I’m lying in a canoe in the middle of the ocean imagining all this play out. When you’re trying to wish something into reality that’s just outside of your reach it sometimes feels like you’re in a vast blank sea. You can’t reach where you want to go so you have to just imagine it instead.

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I can never breathe
When I’m out at sea
Times I’m spending with you
It seems wasted
When your not with me
I can never see

Write my name small at the bottom of the letter,
Ink dry quick think fly,
See you knocking at my window on the fifth story,
I gotta be careful when dealing with allegories.
Im always at danger of thinking too realistic,
Hatched plans talking bout the future like a mystic,
Buying flight tickets have no place to go,
Maybe Just bring me home,
Pick a place on the globe.
People looking at me from the corners of all their eyes
Don't know how many there are I can’t decide.
I guess they got a lens,
I guess they got an angle.
I’m tryna say goodnight
While you’re lighting up a candle.

Why you always say
What happened to the time that we spent?
I’m looking for time to reflect
So indulge with me,
Swim down,
Look back and see.

I can never breathe
When I’m out at sea.
Times I’m spending with you
It seems wasted.
When your not with me
I can never see.

Found her waist in a crisis
Christ, this treasure lay right in her Iris
Right beside A speck of dust on her eyelid
Trust beside lust doing mileage
Never do sirens never do crying
Only do riding bikes on an island
Running till my side hurts
Running till I can’t breathe
Sick of what I can’t see
Looking for a chance please
Please don’t trust me to catch up with your timings
I know I’m late but I hoped to catch you smiling
Right by the lake,
It all seems fake,
Movie set pictures
Beside of your face.
I found the thought of the ocean relentless,
Looking for a place to inspire our adventures,
Looking for the wait to subside and the look in your eyes to decide
The rhythm of your gestures.

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released May 17, 2020
Lukas Ehlers

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Lukas Ehlers London, UK

Lukas Ehlers, 22, is an independent English and German producer, writer and vocalist living in London. Appearing in jazz outfits in their adolescence, they now focus on production and introspection into life, relationships, aspirations and mental health.

Collaborating with California based producer Guy LaBorde, Restless EP merges experimental hip hop, UK garage, beat scenes, and alternative pop.
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