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VOW
03:08
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Going back in time to a world before I knew you
To a past whose future grew you
To a different land
I know I used to be me
But my memory seems faulty
Was I just a friend
I lost along the way
You have changed me
Love that makes me
Vow
Humbled by your presence
I levitate while landing
It must mean I love myself to let me love you so
I’ve shed a thousand skins
This heart it keeps on growing
And to think of what tomorrow will bring
You have changed me
Love that makes me
Vow
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TRUST
03:41
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I’ve been looking out for you
Between the mountain tops
Between the poppies and the sea
That bow on bended knee
And I forget you’ve always been
Dancing in the wind
Dulling all the sharpest shoulds
and cradling the seed
I’ve been looking out for you
Cerulean perfume
Some armor and some lace
A fragrant flower by your face
I forget that I am you
I forget that I’m the sculptor too
And that every dream that lives in me
Is something that the world might see
Trust
It’s an act of faith
Have you
ever willed the world to change?
I’ve been looking out for you
behind tired eyes
shaded by a lens
that’s rosy like the ends
Of my fingertips and knees
Bloodied and bereaved
There’s something that I’m marching towards
Up rivers I have yet to ford
I’ve been looking out for you
The whisper from within
indebted to the wind
that carries on its wings
a will that’s wont to wane
The world will hurl the sand and pain
My heart is hard at work crafting a pearl born from the grain
Trust
It’s an act of faith
Have you
ever willed the world to change?
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TOO SOON
03:51
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Sometime not so many seasons from today
We’ll be saying goodbye
On some waters edge
With lapping waves and bowing reeds
I imagine that I wouldn’t cry
To see you turn from father back to sky
Don’t leave too soon
I need more than memories of you
You asked me if you would go tomorrow were we good?
Was nothing left unsaid?
Do I know that I am loved?
The breeze was soft, your hope was real
I nodded yes but couldn’t feel
We still have futures left to heal
Don’t vanish yet, that’s not the deal
Don’t leave too soon
I need more than memories of you
Don’t leave too soon
And make me find you in the moonlight
You hung back at the waterfall
Dad, come along - why do you stall?
You said you were taking a picture with your mind
I stayed behind, stood beside you, only four feet tall, tried my best to capture it all
Including being beside you
(The breeze was soft, your hope was real)
Just being beside you
(I nodded yes but couldn’t feel)
Don’t leave too soon
I need more than memories of you
Don’t leave too soon
And make me find you in the moonlight
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DISCO WRECKING BALL
03:28
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The whites of your eyes turning red
There’s something growing out the top of your head
If Judas and Narcissus had a child it’d be you
Drowning in the the dagger’s depths, a double edge of doom
And yet I want to be
one who takes responsibility
But your tongue is twisted as a snake
And you justify each sleight as if it’s a mistakes
You’re bringing us down, down with your fall
Down with your disco wrecking ball
You’re burning us down, devouring all
Spilling blood from the ones you love with your disco wrecking ball
I burned the hurt from trees I felled, from seeds I grew and tended
Your fire ate the forest I had left undefended
But I’ve arrived somewhere calm, beyond my anger
The oxygen left in my leaves ain’t something I’ll surrender
You’re bringing us down, down with your fall
Down with your disco wrecking ball
You’re burning us down, devouring all
Spilling blood from the ones you love with your disco wrecking ball
You treat me like a stranger who walks right on through
You treat me like a stranger as if I don’t know you
You treat me like a stranger, well I’ll become one soon enough
You treat me like a stranger, I’m erasing your whole bluff
You’re bringing us down, down with your fall
Down with your disco wrecking ball
You’re burning us down, devouring all
Spilling blood from the ones you love with your disco wrecking ball
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PANDORA
02:51
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Soil and the salty sea
Gifts the gods bestowed on she
And they make it sound like her fault
They make it seem like her fault
A wreath of leaves upon her hair
A seeker’s heart, a piercing stare
And they make it sound like her fault
They make it seem like her fault
Pandora
You’re all that we could be
Pandora
Without the fight we can’t be free
Hindsight wed the punishment
A ticking bomb, heaven sent
They set us up to fail
So their columns wouldn’t crumble
Vengeance is a vessel old
Made of driftwood gilded gold
When imagination fails
And courage can’t be counted
Pandora
You’re all that we could be
Pandora
Without the fight we can’t be free
Our quest is not to seek for love
Solely to seek and find
All the barriers inside
We have built against it
(final 4 lines are a loose Rumi translation)
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PROMISE
04:07
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I made a promise that I plan to keep
I made a promise that I plan to keep
And I know the tides will ebb and flow
I will surf the seas that be
I’ll move towards you just when I want to retreat
I find that when the stars are fading
There's a different day worth waking
Another kind of road
One that we’re not just trekking
Blind to all our wreckage
for the view and for the gold
Only doing what we’re told
I made a promise that I plan to keep
I made a promise that I plan to keep
And I know it’s not just up to me
But I’ll do my part to see
That love is something that I tend to in you
something I intend for me
And when the bows are breaking
And the naked branch is shaking
I’ll adjust my hold
I made a promise I plan to keep
I’ll carry with my bones a breeze
And my breath a smile
for you and me
for you and me
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Death By Piano is a BK-based electronic project mixing electronic beats, distinctive analog instrumentation, and a thick brew of strings and synths -- sifted through a reconstructive filter, centered by KALEN’s lush and expansive voice. DBP “seems to be changing faces between darkwave and shoegaze” (All Things Go). KALEN leads DBP in collabn with some of BK's best producers & visual artists. ... more
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