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Start to End

by Kai Orion

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1.
start to end 04:10
when the early earth birthed you & I atoms drawn in a tide and our souls collided did it spark their lives the way you lit mine? and then when our bones feed the earth broken hands intertwined will they rattle its heart deep inside the way you shook mine? can you feel the years and ancient tears carving rivers through our hemispheres flowing down your cheek into my breath as we start to end? has he healed your heart does he paint your sky when you cry does he kneel beside and kiss your eyes the way you kissed mine? (you kissed mine)
2.
cntrl 03:43
everything's in control take a deep breath, bottle it slowly everything's in control take a deep breath, swallow it whole
3.
a quiet grace settled on our frigid frames you read my name and everything around us changed and our tempos turned to tangled tandem in our veins and all else to noise, just rain against a window pane well, irrigate my arid brain mark this darkness with your name hold my hand and brave the squall guide me gently through it all elevate my heavy chest steal every second breath
4.
tiny world 04:37
I'm mesmerized by the grand design and structure of your spine every mark inside filling up the skies of your waking eyes when they're open wide reflecting mine girl it's a tiny world with you by my side yeah girl it's a tiny world with you by my side yeah girl it's a tiny world and I'll walk with you to the very edge yeah, I'll walk right to the very edge and I'll walk with you to the very edge yeah, I'll walk right to the very edge and so obliged to walk your countryside still mesmerized by the burnt sunrise in your waking eyes when they're open wide reflecting mine returning blind girl it's a tiny world with you by my side yeah girl it's a tiny world with you by my side yeah girl it's a tiny world and I'll walk with you to the very edge yeah, I'll walk right to the very edge and I'll walk with you to the very edge yeah, I'll walk right to the very edge is this real love?
5.
regret 03:15
regret crept in quietly through a hole in your fence and she paid off the garden gnome patrol and she crawled up the walls with her spidery arms and she slid down the chimney to you yeah, regret slid the chimney to you and she rode on the back of a voice from the past to her nest in the back of your brain and she tore through the houses and the summers of youth and she burned every memory you own yeah, regret burned the memories of you then she slipped out the door on the tips of her toes to a passageway straight to your heart and she curled up inside it and forced you to look, oh she held up a mirror to you yeah, regret held a mirror to you yeah, regret held a mirror up to you regret held a mirror up to you did you grieve the man you saw? did you grieve the man you saw? did you grieve the man you saw? did you grieve the man you saw? when regret held a mirror up to you when regret held a mirror up to you when regret held a mirror up to you regret held a mirror up to you
6.
high iq 03:50
high iq come visit me I'm down here I'm drowning I'm hung up I'm reckless not careful like I once was high iq you always said you'd love me forever we'd grow old together I don't know what to do now catapult me through all good thoughts of you I don't know what I'll do all I need is high iq won't marry me I'm losing my patience I'm losing my virtues I'm losing my way without you high iq come rescue me I'm pacing I'm passive mind racing heart captive I don't know what to do now catapult me through all good thoughts of you I don't know what I'll do all I need is
7.
heartless 04:51
thought I caught the earth crash through your window but call me crazy probably could've stopped it if you really wanted cause you're amazing how everyone I know is shedding branches it's contagious said I'd never get this far without you it wasn't easy I couldn't let you leave without a proper funeral I'm not heartless step outside your world and then a thunder just tremendous everywhere I go explodes it seems like it's relentless though I'll never lose this memory of you and me I wouldn't go there said I'd never get this far without you it wasn't easy I couldn't let you leave without a proper funeral I'm not heartless

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released April 28, 2019

all songs written & produced by Kai Orion

Kai Orion: vocals, flute, wine glasses, grand piano, acoustic guitar, percussion, synth lead (start to end), harmonica (our tempos turn, regret), cigar box guitar (tiny world), background electric guitar (our tempos turn, high iq), background synths (tiny world, regret, high iq), vacuum cleaner (cntrl), lawnmower (high iq), samples.
Devin Ganey: electric bass, upright bass (start to end, our tempos turn, tiny world, high iq).
Mike Houser: drums, synth programming (start to end, tiny world).
Alexander Gallows: electric guitar (our tempos turn, tiny world, high iq, heartless), slide guitar (regret), 12 string acoustic guitar (start to end).
Zack Be: organ (cntrl, tempos turn, tiny world, regret, high iq), synth bleeps/bloops (regret, high iq).
Drew Walker: cello (our tempos turn, tiny world, regret), saxophone squeaks/squalks (tiny world, high iq).

Mixed by Kai Orion
Mastered by Zack Be
Album art by Kai Orion & Kassie Lyon

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Kai Orion Washington, D.C.

Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, experimental-pop, found-sound artist from DC

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