Shadow Dance

from The Dreamer & The Dream by Kela Parker

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This is about the process of colonization, and how some people might choose to live on the margins of society to avoid colonization and capitalism. Since part of Sam's journey was taking me through different parts of ancestral and American history, this seemed to be an important part.

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I can hear you still, from the edge
Where you go
You know the power of your words
And what you think, you feel
Yeah you know
Someone builds an empire here
To your ways they're drawing near

To your ways they're drawing near
An empire for the taking
To everyone a taste of freedom
A ticket out, take it, take it

But we know how the story goes

I can see you from afar
And all you dared not dream
But you did, yeah you did
Somewhere I can hear you say
"Never a master or a slave"

Somewhere I can hear you say
"Never a master or a slave"
If it's not for sale, it's free
Come on now, the curse has lifted

To everyone a happy ending
Everything would be so sweet
To everyone a taste of freedom
A ticket out, take it, take it, Oh --

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from The Dreamer & The Dream, released April 16, 2018

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Kela Parker Los Angeles, California

"A prepossessing voice" (A&R Factory).

No one sounds quite like Kela Parker. The Los Angeles- based, Portland, Oregon-bred singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist pushes the edges of pop forms with her singular mystic prairie rock, “like folk music, but from a country you’ve never heard of before.” (Destination: Universe!). ... more

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