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Dark Water

by Katie Blount

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A professionally pressed digipack with CD and a 6-page booklet with all the lyrics. If you would like the CD signed please let me know. There will be an opportunity at checkout that says 'add note to seller'.

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1.
Dark Water 04:52
I knew it was over When you gave me a glimpse into your eyes And nothing was returned No bridges to cross From your silence to mine No rumour of sorrow From the strangers in your mind Where do you go In the daylight of all your fears Do they sharpen memories To remind you now How losing really feels Or do they foresee Something in the waters now revealed So with all the blood rushing to my head I can’t remember a single word of my surrender Dark water is coming through coming through Crawling over my old skin that you once knew If only we could exchange A memory into the moment Then we could bring back the old And conquer the new Dark water is coming coming through Can you see it clear Though you don’t know the sound From the distance of regret If your heart could speak What language would it use Would you tell me scenes we played You were rehearsing your desires For someone you don’t yet know Dark water is coming through coming through Crawling over my old skin that you once knew If only we could exchange A memory into the moment Then we could bring back the old And conquer the new Dark water is coming coming through, through
2.
Shadowlands 04:38
I cannot tell you how I feel I’m a slow death at the wheel I’m the no one you won’t claim Even when the night draws the last remains I cannot tell you how I ache Where pain once hurt it now breaks Or of the distant raging bell That strikes every hour against my will I cannot feel your love I cannot feel your love I cannot bring you what you deserve I’ve only got fate left in reserve Your wild mystery I’d chase away Trading your pearl for my killer’s aim I cannot feel your love I cannot feel your love I cannot tell you of the dreams I’ve squandered joyriding on extremes Grasping the dying hand of desire With its cold taste of iron wire I cannot feel your love I cannot feel your love
3.
There are no more answers In this story we have made Where the rogue tongue loosens And our freedom is staged The cast who wear the show Vanish inside their charade Turn their fear to money Wear their money as a veil When you think you know them They appear as if from a dream With a face you don’t recognise Stealing your teeth for jewellery When there’s no more answers They’ll revive our misery Spinning tales of two sides Each believing they’re the one God chose to win the fight While they sell tomorrow From a second-hand suitcase Your tears oil their narrow wheels Like the past hasn’t once paid Who sees beyond the curtain Behind the mirror turning wild Who’s pointing it to Phoney sideshows of numb hearts When there’s no more answers You who ask no questions Inside vague sounds of war Follow voices raging ’til You’re worshipping the sword Those who are sleeping On the raw tear-stained winds Awaken to despair Now bleeding inside of them When there’s no more answers But those who watch with silent eyes Behind the scenes of their mind Those who feel their phantom limb Sensing each reply Turn their pain to freedom In the alchemy of modern times
4.
Misery plays the band Though you never hear it Your tears hiding on the run Your voice fading through the airwaves A pale ghost inside a fog Reaching out for someone But no longer can be traced Who are you trying to please The audience has gone home As if you never were The show you wore never came from your heart You tried to tap dance to the blues Rehearsing in a mirror That once disfigured you Lead by what you couldn’t see As if it had its own will Oh to make you feel afraid To persuade you to be possessed by your mirage While the applause gathered speed When you believed you’d turned to gold Their laughter made you bleed Then I saw a vision appear You were walking down the aisle But you gave yourself away To the story of love you tore out of his eyes Kissed him ’til your heart turned black To capture a dream the way A painting captures the scene
5.
Katrina unwinding carrying her scorn Fleeing the pain of our own enemy storm Holding on to freedom as if it were all we could own Riding that sleeper like a wild horse in flight Scuffing heals through every crossing we fight Was then I wondered why your eyes froze open Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone I could not trust in me Bleeding me free Your thoughts spilled over flooding your mind I heard them escape before escape was denied Teaching the meaning of shame in your confessions Your fear was something more than you could make sense You felt it cut the bone of your splintered defence As your story lay open ready to be stolen Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone I could not find in me Bleeding me free Saw your father standing with scars in his hands Showing you his injured love seek revenge Offering each blow as if they hold some kind of glory Your mother in the corner her shadow buried alive Viciously demeaning any rescue she tried As your cuts reveal loves bitter rage repeating Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone I could not feel in me Bleeding me free Knew where this was going could feel from your lie Deception promising you were so justified A fist for a fist, a wound for a wound, the loving love kills Now I look up see the ice crack your eye Convincing everyone its tears from your cry You’re just another boy who thinks he’s Red-blooded carbon Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone who was lost in me Bleeding me free Your lover’s still waiting for the reason to appear Lingering on the last moment to come clear Why you could never say why you were leaving She thinks she sees your face on the billboard of ninth Where there was a sale of a lover for a bribe Did you take the money? Tell me Did it feel like forgiveness? Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone I could not love in me Bleeding me free
6.
Fingerprint my mind for evidence To try and find the someone you may never see As if you as if you Discover me In the missing traces no one could ever find Come find me Lay me down in the lines of your face Free from any sign you came to stay Examine all my love for your being there To understand the reason I have no more words Somewhere somewhere You may read me In the lines of a story on the pages of your lips I wish I could have someone you want living in my veins Bleed me into your arms to let go once again Lay me down in the lines of your face Free from any sign you came to stay Go where some have gone to trespass Know their every movement In the corners of my heart Will you will you Release them Into cloudy waters of old memories lost I wish I could hold the time turning in on us Keep it in our hands to be free again Lay me down in the lines of your face Free from any sign you came to stay Free from your love that could not stay
7.
Theatre Cafe 04:28
Down in the old theatre cafe Our lips stained with wine Mother on my right My sister silver lined We dined among the well to do I tried to be refined But I was cornered by her conscience In her sad refrain Or maybe I imagined the whole thing She told us it was over Pretending that I knew I still could not see clearly Through the smoke, the tightropes and the booze I asked her one starving question How was your heart undone She said the dealers always win with their Sleight of hand honey They’ll cheat your love for the game Or maybe you can imagine the whole thing She said he sings his love songs To the other girls in town He charms them with his harmonies And teaches them to smile and bow In her words I felt a sorrow Like a mourning string quartet Whose forgiveness hasn’t found its way To freedom yet Or maybe I imagined the whole thing I guess every union has a time to expire Making us cynical by Revealing loves faithful liar I used to be a dreamer Of the sentimental kind Holding hands under street lights And dancing on high wires Or maybe I imagined the whole thing
8.
Conversation ends and then repeats With you my dearest of brothers From a side that draws The very blood from your lips With a sorrow you never heard From a doorway you love to call your own Though I’ve carved my name where you stand When we pretended with our cowboys in mime You said the sky had twisted through my head I was always scrambling upon my feet Forever in change and laced with seasons I would only ever be able to play dead Somehow I just believed you Now you say I’ve been starved and bled With a poison so familiar you call a friend I’ve been fooled by the weight of a rolling dice That only ever landed in mid-air Why did you believe it had crashed at their feet Like an empire exploding to life I saw monsoon rains behind the waters of your eyes That if you let go you’d crumble to the floor From that very same side you argued with me That it was only me that was blind Now can you see there are no sides Just two worlds that need to collide So come now why can’t you talk about it Now it’s your scar needing words When an arrow heading for someone one else’s pain Suddenly came storming for you From hands that could not feel to grieve As your fear declares it’s still immune I watch you walk away into a breathless fog The fog you believe I pulled from my mind I’ve no reason to mystify or throw death a wound When there’s so many wounds still alive I just needed you to come stand here with me To feel the dawn fading through my mind In the way that I know to stand there with you When your bird gets thrown from the skies
9.
Orion Sky 04:27
I heard there’s nothing at the end Between your last breath and the time I’m left No day or night no love nor grief No memories fever there way out of me Paintings we hung have drawn themselves free Photographs we captured have found their liberty Our love once mirrored now has no more reply Staring back at me your Orion sky Take me with you when you go Take me with you when you leave You ain’t coming back My voice cannot try to write our song When even sorrow don’t know how to belong Please tell our history there’s no more to make When there ain’t no future that we can awake Take me with you when you go Take me with you when you leave Tell me how can I find you Although I knew everything needs to end Somehow I thought forever could try to pretend Our time nothing more than grains of sand Your hourglass heart I carried in my hands Take me with you when you go Take me with you when Orion Has called you home, called you home

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released January 31, 2020

Written, Recorded and Produced by Katie Blount

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Katie Blount London, UK

Katie Blount has written an album with the skill of a poet and the heart of a musician. With lines like ‘Fingerprint my mind for evidence’ and ‘I’ve been fooled by the weight of a rolling dice that only ever landed in mid-air’. These songs aren’t lighthearted tunes, but ones that draw you into the heart and soul of who we are underneath our disguises. ... more

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