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Kelsey (Down to the Darkest Sidewalks)

from Genius Loci by DeatHat

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Oh, Kelsey, all the things that i told you about me are legends and wives' tales
We followed them down through a tracery town and they eddied and swam down the darkest of sidewalks

Oh, Kelsey, I'm afraid that when all of my scratching is done, I'll be fallow
The glimmering fruit needs soil less destitute and can only find root in the darkest of sidewalks

Watch as the lantern light drifts through the neighborhood
Running aground on the town's sides and edges
All night they poured through the streets like molasses
Refreshing past passion with kindness and newness
We sat on the curbside and watched them roll past us
Bright globes in their droves going home start to finish

Oh, Kelsey, this frail hour is wrinkled and red-faced and mewling for milking
They grow up so fast; nothing ever can last, and they wait for us massed at the darkest of sidewalks

They made this town a river when they flowed slow through it with a river's shining blindness and their hands lands long, forgetting every wrinkle that they ran their fingers over, they took away no stories and that theft left scars

Oh, Kelsey, brick by brick I am building a house I am proud to grow old in
The structure is stout and the doorway's devout and the front door leads out to the darkest of sidewalks

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from Genius Loci, released October 10, 2016
Written by K. Stewart

K. Stewart - Marimba and vocals
Erik Ostrom - Bass

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DeatHat was an experimental torch-noir duo active in the South Bay indie scene from 2005 - 2010.

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