Shadows (demo)

from Swampling (demo) by Kat Parent

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a lullaby to shadows, blessedly dim rooms, and the space inside me that holds many truths until I am ready to know them. a love song to darkness, queerness, neurodivergence, and myself as a lonely nerdy kid sketching and humming to let my mind shift into a place without words or judgment.
this is where my music comes from.

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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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from Swampling (demo), track released August 5, 2020

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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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