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In the Green (demo)
05:47
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shipwreck in the deep
not lost, not asleep
I'm poured out of shape
become rich and strange
(in the green green green)
this soul all unmoored
in millions of spores
slow rotting that feeds
a tumult of seeds
these bones are a choir
landscape of desire
my backbone uncurled
my tendrils unfurled
the lungs of the earth
the tongues of the dirt
a chorus rebirth
a chorus rebirth
a cosmos of grief
a riot of leaves
I have not escaped
I've only been changed
nothing left to fade
but constants of change
I'm poured out of shape
become rich and strange
what perished in flames
took thousands of names
I have not escaped
I've only been changed
oh, be not afraid
oh, be not afraid
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Dark and Deep (demo)
04:59
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Years of counting slip from my arms
I have lived by the book and alarm
Raven black and cottonwood
Fill the time like a stream at my foot
Swirled in eddies and dragged over shoals
Floating by as the monarchs unfold
stars of air in the cold of the deep
time is different when told by the leaves
[And I didn't know you were here
I was so afraid
of the time, my dear
And I couldn't feel the beat
til I let go
into dark and deep]
Waves are days that circle around
Feel your smile after years underground
Painted turtle adoze on the stones
Watch the fall fade to ashes and bones
No more minutes measured or earned
Waking up in the shadows of ferns
Breath a tune picked up on a whim
Touch a trickster who dared me to swim
Like a bee takes its dance to the flowers
Rhyme's a reason to drink in the hour
Shows are over, the doors are all closed
All that's left is the ebb and the flow
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Shadows (demo)
05:30
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to shadows:
Sketching doorways til they lose their lines
and open alleys to my secret mind
Bored of waiting with the nameless fears
I made friends with shadows in the lonely years
(my shadows, my sweetness, my darkness, my love)
Keeping daydreams in a candy tin
my patchwork tales to carry longings in
too much danger there to speak aloud
but you sang inside me as I froze and bowed
always stumbling when they yelled "straight lines"
caught the blast and bluster for each step off time
in florescence of a spotlight call
I still bend and quaver, I will falter, fall
At my strongest in the dim-lit room
As cool as cedars casting spells at noon
Give me ripples in the shining dark
I play luminescent, I will teem with sparks
My hands will shuttle to untangle sounds
my tongue can weave the shreds of time unwound
a song that whispers what you dare not know
a womb that holds the truth you'll someday grow
(my shadows, my sweetness, my darkness, my love)
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Kat Parent Minneapolis, Minnesota
Katherine writes gentle and passionate songs that speak to work of healing and resistance. She sings new folk music inspired by generations of family lullabies, by lament and rage, and by vivid dreams.
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