So my creaky Nord keyboard drove me crazy and I tried to doctor it up or multitrack but I didn’t want to lip-sync this as it’s my entry to the NPR Tiny Desk Concert 2017 and it had to be in front of a desk. I gave up and decided this was the best performance… If you want to come work for me and help me engineer my home YouTube videos I will gladly pay you!!!

That’s my stand-up desk behind me, BTW. Enjoy and feel free to share feedback about the song! Oh, and if I do win, there’s a funny story behind this song… it’s not what you think (well, it never is)!

What if Sex Were Real?
(c) 2017 Alexa Weber Morales

You divide my cells
Take my chromosomes
Retinas like wells
Drill my marrow bones

Sweet bohemia
Saturate my senses
Synesthesia
Sex and consequences

What if sex were real?
Not a slippery lie
Not a beastly creature
In whose jaws I die

What if sex were real?
Not mythology
Irresistible
Dark biology

This is gravity
This is elemental
Life’s depravity
Elegantly sentimental

What if sex were real?
Not a slippery lie
Not a beastly creature
In whose jaws I die

What if sex were real?
Not mythology
Irresistible
Dark biology

In your particle detectors
I shed every lonely photon
Drifting through your stardust spectra
Solitary like a black swan

What if sex were real?
Not a slippery lie
Not a beastly creature
In whose jaws I die

What if sex were real?
Not mythology
Irresistible
Dark biology

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