The Art of Memory

from The Dreamer & The Dream by Kela Parker

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This song is about reckoning with a family history of alcoholism.

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Give back my breath, I've not known it
Always the same but ever strange

I tamed my tongue
Now I need one
Deep freeze ever thawing
And flat under glass
I hear you calling

And who's got their teeth in me
In these archeology
Who here's the prey and who's the innocent
Yeah who's got the sweet relief
The bottle in the bloodlines
What cost the fiction, well I'm not buying, not buying, not buying

And so, time inside out
And I'm not running, running after all

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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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