“Saudade”  Love Me Leave Me LP (2013)

In every crowd I see your face
In every face I see your eyes
In every place I hear your voice
In every voice I hear your sighs

Like a vine clings to a tree
How your memory clings to me
Pulling me back
Like a ship out to sea

(repeat)

Note: While many of the songs on the Love Me Leave Me album were new productions of older collaborations with various online musicians, this was a brand new song written during the album recording sessions. Anji had long wanted to write a classic style Brazilian song, so she was thrilled when her long time musical partner, Ryan Lum, offered to help write a vintage Bossa Nova track with her. Not only did he perform all of the music, but he added in backing vocals, too, to recreate that Joao and Astrud Gilberto feel. The lyrics were taken from some poetry Anji had written years earlier, which she set to Ryan’s music.