Name: Dark and Deep (demo)
Duration: P00H04M59S
Description: losing track of time and floating down the Kinnickinnic river with loved ones living and passed, especially my uncle Tom Parent, 1954-2006

Dark and Deep (demo)

from Swampling (demo) by Kat Parent

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losing track of time and floating down the Kinnickinnic river with loved ones living and passed, especially my uncle Tom Parent, 1954-2006

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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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from Swampling (demo), track released July 9, 2020
live loop demo recorded on phone

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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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