Northern Stories

by Kurtis Kennedy-Singer

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Treasons 04:20
treasons/set your guns down put them in the holster we don’t need them/we change our ways like the months they change the seasons/set fire to all the things we said we believed in/treasons/have we burned all the bridges or has time been able to keep them leading?/is your heart open wide as the high noon tide or receding?/in fear of the chance that our history could be repeating/treasons/you’re awoken in the night but its me the one who’s dreaming/a distant reverie of a long-lost love that’s fleeting/but a soul that’s found is warmer than a cold heart bleeding/treasons/the static in the sounds you swore are words I’m weaving/building castles in the air you see I wont stop believing/like a lung full of air that will cease to stop its breathing.
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Follow 03:28
no church will be my witness/when you ask me for forgiveness/and I throw it all away/along with everything you say/because we murder the lives that live close to us/and hope lives on with the rest of us/but the heart will know the truth/along with everything you do/so love/spare me what’s in store/have you seen it all before?/spare me the speech from cobblestone streets all lined with raggedy souls/open your heart and mind/try to describe what you find/look and you’ll see the wrong chemistry of hearts that have been broken and sold/we become one/and follow/we become one/forget the words that were written/on the love that was always hidden/so hide no more my dear/you’ll no longer live in fear/because freedom is the one that frees us/and love is the one that leaves us/with the feeling of living alone/in a world in which you’ll never own
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if you are the fire/I am the kerosene/we stumbled and got turned around/got caught somewhere in between/living in our moments while they’re drenched within our history/and the fables that we tell our hearts are often contradictory/our minds they sit in wonder/while our souls dance in revelry/a scene of mirror images/mislaid among the melody/if you are the fire/I’m bound for the third degree/my heart will be so tempered from showing what you mean to me/my love/don’t go/if I don’t lie next to you I’d rather lie alone/my love/you’ll find/that flames will fly and etch the images deep within your mind/my love/don’t fade/when darkness comes upon you I’ll illuminate the way/my love/you’ll see/that flames will fly and light the sky just for you and me/if you are the match/then I’m the spark that lighted it/we stand and watch the kindle smoke/like the arson who ignited it/I opened up the floodgates/even though I was desperately hiding it/because those words so picayune/was just enough that it divided it/if you are the target/I’ll never lose sight of it/I’ll cease to rest until I’ve turned my/wrongs around and righted it/because if you are the fire/then I’m an ember inside of it/our love remains in fragments/until we reunited it
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Plume 04:46
silent glances/quickly turns to loud/as your heart advances/with a symphony of sound/and the spark burns white/irradiate the night around you/treading lightly/as we filter out the past/but your smile shines brightly/like an unclouded pane of glass/and it takes me away/forever I’d stay around you/I strived for perfection/’cause you were already there/and I tossed and turned in wonder/like a plume of smoke chokes out the coldest air/it’s a long-forgotten fire/but the ember’s still a flare/the warm glow is hidden deep down somewhere/but the question is/will it light again?/ashen branches/covering the ground/like an eloquent canvas/that’s longing to be found/it no longer burns white/it’s a soft candlelight/around us/flames receding/it fades a noble death/but your clutch is fixed/like it’s your one and only breath/the comfort is a song/that’s dangerously calm/around us
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I followed you down and/who knew I’d fall so soon?/I sang the songs as you/flowed around the room/catch your gaze I think/did you see mine too?/a ghostly shift mixed with/shades of navy blue/round, round round in two/down, down, down into/I’m bound, bound, bound, until you’re no longer tied down/if only you knew/we drove away with our/fingers laced and twined/but my eyes were swiftly moving/images in an unconscious mind/memories fashioned from a/fleeting ardent night/one that’s ill-mentioned/spoken from a nostalgic time/I followed you down and/who knew we’d end up here/a path that binds another/makes me disappear/hindsight shows I shouldn’t have/been so cavalier/as an emerald heart is my/only souvenir
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I’ve always been afraid to give everything/for once I give it/it is gone/but darkness gives way to the daylight/the light rises when it’s dawn/sometimes fate hides in the shadows/sometimes it drops an atom bomb/you’ve written down what your soul pours out/and I’ve turned it into a song/these little broken words are your song/there have been days I look at the world/and realize my hands are too small/to catch all the misery I want to hold/turn the chaos into calm/but darling you need to remind yourself/have trust in you before you march on/grasp the notion I’ll always be here/my words as true as this song/these little broken words are your song
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Sea of Grey 03:47
I’ve never been so inclined to say/just how I’ve been feeling some lonely days/sometimes it goes from bad to worse/I’ve never been the one to say/just who should be taking all the blame/sometimes I feel I’ve been cursed/love should be the one/to start a heart/be the beat of a drum/not take it all away/love should be the one/to carry you home when you’ve come undone/not lead you astray/leaving you to find your own way/I’ve never been so left in the dark/trying to put the pieces back that have been torn apart/forgetting the way they came/those pieces on the floor they belong to my heart/and were broken by some selfless and some hopeless remarks/but the truth is what hurts they say/and loving you has taken its toll/on the caves in my heart/and the depths of my soul/left me drowning in a sea of grey/been blown around like some tattered clothes/hung up on the line waiting for the cold/you’ll never love me the same way/that I love you
11.
Levi 06:38
so brother/you’re getting older/the questions you will have will soon become bolder/wide eyes soon close and the night turns colder/just don’t forget to love before it’s all over/mistakes I’ve endured/regrets I have made/thousands of questions better off unexplained/as broken of a home I’ve escaped/for you I vow it not to be the same/whether miles or minutes apart/the blood that flows straight to your heart/will be mine until I’m six feet down/and my pulse will cease to make a sound/so brother/you’re getting taller/as your mind grows the world becomes smaller/that mind will soon turn into a scholar/and your days will be spent in the shade of a collar/mistakes you’ll endure/regrets you will make/thousands of hours remain to be claimed/as broken of a distance we’ve remained/I’m still proud of who you have became
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released March 4, 2016

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Kurtis Kennedy-Singer Toronto, Ontario

Making acoustic/folk/rock/indie/alternative/musical sounds since '92.

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