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Here's a video I made for my song Speechless. I shot this in one night (with a couple of pick-up's for b-roll,) using a bed sheet/drop cloth, a floor lamp, the iPhone 5s, 8mm (app) and iMovie.

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LOVE M



SPEECHLESS : Written by Michiko Freemond

Every time I try to speak up it comes out wrong
What I say and what he hears just don’t get along
All the choices are like grains of sand
so I rattle around like a bug in a can
and I’m struck dumb again and
speechless

(Drop a little) bait that goes straight from my mouth
and out into the air
Till he purses his perfect lips and fashions his inimitable face into a dare
Was that come hither or maybe a riddle
Do he want me even a little
while I wax young and go numb
and become speechless

I got answers but he abstracts them away
Wish I had something ever so slightly less cryptic to say
Give me big words for big words out of place
so I can stem the fall of a wordsmith’s disgrace
and how I dare to draw air when he don’t seem to care
I’m there, speechless

Fractured and broke and the word is a joke
and I’m speechless

(And then ta da) I’m a writer with a serious insufficience of words
I get cross and my thoughts fly like an indigent army of birds
They take off high and they go straight and tight
into the arms of the pregnant and forgiving night
where there’s no chance that some man waits for you to phrase it right
All right...speechless

So what else, let me think, wait a minute, let me think, uh, I sigh and I shrug
Girl with the lips says something he inhales like the ultimate drug
He closes his eyes and it goes through his veins
like the mechanics of faith finally explained
and he holds in the smoke meanwhile I start to choke
On my... speechless

He says something great about the skeletal structure of time
My joints ache as I race towards the next immanent, obvious, line
I could write a book out of what is unsaid
I try to catch the last atrophied thought in my head
but it rolls down the tome through the breach in the bone
where I’m speechless

Someday I’ll take up a mic and go on for a year
Talkin’ bout hope and redemption and faith and wordlessness and sex and love and love and love and fear
but until that absurdly prodigious day
I’ll just type and re-write all my hours away
and the penultimate things that I finally will say
sway him speechless

Author couture the rhyme is totally pure
Sure I’m speechless

Command of the tongue but a leak in the lung
And I’m speechless

Blocked at the neck inarticulate wreck
Heck I’m speechless

and I’m speechless
and I’m speechless
and I’m