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Dream of Home

by Joyce Kwon

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    JOYCE FOR THRIVING 2020 is a phrase adapted from a track off the album, "When I'm a Raisin," and has been a slogan throughout the recording process. Ross has one too so you can feel super cool knowing that you are twinsies with the producer. It is printed on the American Apparel USA-Made Jersey T-shirt, which runs small FYI.

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1.
Dream of home but don't go back there It's all been packed up, nothing of yours remains Fragile memories can't withstand a closer look, clear through the lens You might wish you could unsee, lose the alarming lucidity Dream of home but don't go back there There's not a place for you, nowhere to lay your head Recollections don't hold up when you step back, connect the dots You might wish you could erase all that's tainted your naivety So let it live on in precious reminiscing 뒤를 돌아보지 마요 (Don't look back) A source of strength, a sense of belonging 앞으로만 봐요 (Only look ahead) Let home stay home so you can go forward So dream of home but don't go back there Hold it near inside, keep it safe, keep it dear Dream of home but don't go back there Hold it near inside, keep it safe, keep it yours
2.
Ruby, 6 03:49
Could I find my way back home? Would you welcome me back in? Will I recognize the place? Has it all been rearranged? I'm ready to go home now but I can't seem to find my way I've traveled 'round deep in the woods In buildings that scrape the sky By salty shallow waters, but they weren't home—they weren't you And the farther I got away The more I understood the girl wearing ruby shoes But no matter how I try and click my heels, I can't get back Could I find my way back home? Would you welcome me back in? Will I recognize the place? Has it all been rearranged? I'm ready to go home now but I can't seem to find my way I've traveled 'round deep in the woods In buildings that scrape the sky By salty shallow waters but they weren't home
3.
Nililiya 03:20
Light the lanterns, set the table Your long-lost love will return, time to celebrate Nililiya 늴리리야 늴리리야 니나노 난실로 내가 돌아간다 늴리리야 Days have gone by, the moon doesn’t lie When will we meet again, never to part? Nililiya 늴리리야 늴리리야 니나노 난실로 내가 돌아간다 Young yesterday, graying today What can you do? What can you say? Nililiya 늴리리야 늴리리야 니나노 난실로 내가 돌아간다 늴리리야 늴리리야 늴리리야 니나노 난실로 내가 돌아간다
4.
Someone gave me some advice: “Stay out of the sun or you’ll get wrinkles” It’s too late for that, that’s not what’s for me When I’m a raisin, I’ll say I dared to look into the sun That I let myself be blinded by its glow When I’m a raisin, I’d like to say I have no regrets That I lived and loved fully Let my heart swell and shatter again and again I won’t let myself spoil with delusions of self-preservation Life is for living, the sun for shining, I’m for thriving When I’m a raisin, I won’t be sad I’ll have lived my life out in the sun And be prepared to go into the light
5.
They say that time heals all things But it's no use while you're stuck in time You say you're fine that you'll be alright Going through the motions like a mime You don't want to cry so you sing You feel like you'll die so you ring a friend who says— They say that time heals all things But what's the use when you're stuck in time? You say you're fine that you're moving on Going through the motions like a mime You don't want to cry so you sing You feel like you'll die so you ring a friend— Don't cry! Won't you sing? Though you can't help but sigh as you cling to what you've left They say that time heals all things But you won't be whole till you're out of time Everything happens for a reason But you can find no reason or rhyme
6.
가련하다 갈곳잃은 우리 (Pitiful are we who’ve lost our way) 서글프다 나라없는 우리 (Sad are we the nationless) 비통하다 자유없는 우리 (Sorrowful are we stripped of freedom) 돌아갈길 잊어버렸나? (Have we forgotten the way back?) 너무 멀리 가버렸나? (Have we gone too far?) Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child A long ways from home, a long ways from home True believer | I do believe True believer | We’ll find our way home True believer | When the heavens cry out Heavenly land, true believer | 흙 다시 만져보자 True believer | We will rise up, rise up and take back our land Motherless child | 바닷물은 언제 춤을 출까? Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 바닷물은 언제 춤을 출까? (When will the ocean rise to dance?) Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 흙 다시 만져보자 (Let us touch the soil again) A long ways from home, a long ways from home Such a long, long ways from home
7.
Why-Go-Round 02:50
It’s time to let go and move on, you’ve held on for too long It’s time to let go and be free, forget what just won’t be And run away to a place where you can be—just be Far away from the stale air of a room closing in Out in a world without walls It’s time to let go and move on, you’ve held on for too long It’s time to let go and be free, forget what just won’t be And run away to a place where you can be—just be Far away from the stale air of a room closing in Out in a world without walls It’s time to let go and move on, you’ve held on for too long It’s time to let go and be free, forget what just won’t be You deserve to be happy, you deserve to be free You deserve to be happy
8.
Little Bird 03:08
Little bird, little bird, what have you come home to find? Sweet memories lingering in the breeze in fields of foxtail, tall and lithe Little bird, little bird, flying 'cross an endless sky In reverie, you forget the things that made you leave in search of life (Korean bird calls quoted from the folk song Saetaryeong) 쑥국 쑥국 쑥쑥국 쑥국 쑥국 쑥국 쑥쑥국 쑥국 Oh, I hear your song longing for a time gone by Clear melodies, above the trees as you sing of hope and fly 작은 새야 작은 새야 무엇을 찾으려 집에 왔니? 산들바람에 유연하게 흔들리는 키큰 강아지 풀 밭 아름다운 추억들이 아련히 떠오르네 작은 새야 한없는 하늘을 가로질러 날아가는 작은 새야 공상에 빠진 너는 삶을 찾아 떠나갔던 이유를 어느새 잊고있네 오 귀여운 새야 지난 세월을 그리워하는 너의 노래소리를 나는 듣네 네가 희망을 노래하고 나무위를 지나 하늘 높이 날때 들리는 청아한 가락

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"The dream of home can be a nightmare. It’s possible that it’s a place that never existed at all ... Still, Joyce holds out hope that there’s space for her somewhere, if only in the collective imagination of those marginalized in their homeland, ostracized in the motherland."

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released December 7, 2018

Joyce Kwon: voice & gayageum
Ross Garren: organ, piano, Mellotron, Rhodes, Clavinet, Organelle, glockenspiel, toy piano, Marxophone, Harmonetta & harmonica
Hitomi Oba: tenor, alto & soprano saxophone
Nick DePinna: trombone
Brandon Bae: acoustic & electric guitar
Erik Kertes: electric & upright bass
Gavin Salmon: drums & percussion

All words & music by Joyce Kwon
except Nililiya & Motherless Child — traditional
Published by Voicekwon Music, ASCAP

Produced by Ross Garren
Collaborative arrangements by Joyce & Ross
except Motherless Child — arranged by Joyce

Recorded & mixed by Keith Armstrong
Recorded 2017.11 - 2018.03 in North Hollywood
Mastered by Justin Shturtz at Sterling Sound

Album artwork by Gianina Ferreyra
Makeup & hair by Kaz Shimada
Design & layout by ps fairy

© 2018 ps fairy records
℗ 2018 Voicekwon Music

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singer, composer & gayageum player making folk music for folks of the diaspora

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