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In Another Lifetime

by Kate Dressed Up

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Ride Home 03:47
You let me see the map But there was no compass rose So when you told me to go back See, I just couldn't find the road So I stood there all abandoned In the middle of the woods Screaming through the trees That I would go back if I could But I can't and I won't You missed the boat And I'll miss my ride home So I tried to leave in darkness Using stars now as a guide Staring into all that nothing It felt like a look inside So I sat and had a chat With each and every constellation They told me not to expect you Waiting for me at the station But I can't and I won't You missed the boat And I'll miss my ride home Something in the cards told me this was coming Under all those stars, only starlight humming Think of all the time that you could have saved us It happens all the time, and who could blame us? I just can't and I won't You missed the boat And I'll miss my ride home I just thought you should know You missed the boat And I'll miss my ride home
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Fly Along 03:51
My stomach is always twisted up in knots From happiness or a heavy heart And I chose this path I'm on Without understanding what I really want So I fly along I fly along I fly along Hey there, young one, would you spin a yarn? Any chance I might've had is now long gone And if a rose is very vain Should I love it just the same? Should I take the bait? Should I take the bait? Can such a thing be tamed? Now I am taken by surprise By your laughter, by your eyes Laugh for me just one more time Make me childish, make me wise Then we'll say goodbye Then we'll say goodbye Then we'll say goodbye
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Do you wonder how this happened? Do you picture where I sleep? Can you feel it all unwinding Secrets that I can barely keep? Can you feel me all withdrawing? There is poison in my blood And by proximity you surely will be injured by my cut The only thing I ever felt for you is all my love My love, we are bound by history and art I only understood after tearing us apart My love, I have found myself a bit too far From home after my travels Now let me rest my weary heart You said it would be empty But there was water in the well It was waiting there to find us ever since before we fell It was waiting there to find us ever since before we fell It's everything I need and nothing more because, my love My love, we are bound by history and art I only understood after tearing us apart My love, I have found myself a bit too far From home after my travels Now let me rest my weary heart I have loved you more each day Though I'm not sure I can return And spending time with you Taught me a different way to learn The nature of my being We heard wolves howling at the moon Or when I heard your heavy breathing As I "slept" across the room My love, I believe I am coming to the end I only understood how to break but never bend Please grant me reprieve Hey now, could you be a friend? I let it all unravel Could you forgive me yet again?
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It feels like it's been forever It hasn't been long at all And despite genuine efforts We have gotten nothing done The bolts have all gone rusty They came loose during the fall Now I cannot take them out Or tighten them at all We are running out of water Please accept the last of it I'd rather you survive And I die swallowing my spit "But sir, you are too hasty I have questions yet for you Can't you see that you have tamed me And our hope may yet be true?" I could kiss the clouds For bringing us shade Some respite from the heat This momentum shift seems Insurmountable Like quitting might be worth it now I carried your body For days and days I hoped to quench your thirst But for all the ground we covered The cause was all but lost You consistently insisted it was not Just when I could not stand Another moment more It appeared before us there With pulley, rope, and pail The way the water danced Was impossible to take for granted Where are you frome? What do you know that I don't? Where did you learn it, And what is your heart made of To keep such perfect secrets hid?
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First I met a man, he tried to count the stars He figured they were his, and he made it his whole business Couldn't look away for fear of losing count And so he never learned they were something he could do without For all of the trying and fighting you can't make it so There is no use in crying, there's some things we may never know The next man that I met had a different kind of fear By focusing on maps he got stuck sitting there And I'm not sure if he had ever left his chair But he knew plenty of stories of others who had dared For all of the trying and fighting you can't make it so There is no use in crying, there's some things we may never know To get what you're after there's some things you'll have to let go As for me, I will wait in the meantime for changes to show Then I met a king as kind as kind could be But he reveled in his power and rained/reigned over the sea It was my burden to bear, to deliver him the news That his obedient ocean was faithful to the moon For all of the trying and fighting you can't make it so There is no use in crying, there's some things we may never know To get what you're after there's some things you'll have to let go As for me, I will wait in the meantime for changes to show
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When I was a kid I spent my evenings at her place How could I not fall in love with such a pretty face? Then one time over dinner she mentioned that she was straight After that I dropped it And never talked about it For fear that I might frighten her away One time at a party she asked me up to her room I thought she wanted company, too drunk to see the truth We fell asleep talking by the blue light of the moon But I left in the morning Without a word or warning I guess that you could say I was confused How could I have known That you were feeling it too? I needed adventure so I explored a foreign land I couldn’t have felt luckier when she became my friend She made me feel like I could make a home of desert sand She took a liking to me I know she saw right through me Now I regret not kissing her back then I regret not kissing her back then I regret not kissing her back then How could I have known That you were feeling it too?
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The Fountain 05:23
Remember the fountain, it’s spilling like words from my mouth And you hear me but can’t figure out What I mean by my metaphors, or when, why, or how We arrived at this place so far outside of town I know you see it, just like you did Out under the stars back when we were just kids The magic that moved us when we took a dip In the fountain, the water put stars on your lips And I felt you growing with every step that I’d take Your limbs were like leaves in the water that shiver and shake And I kissed you not knowing just how much was truly at stake It was as if I’d been sleeping and only then was I awake It is still calling us each day and night Through all the love-making and every fight There is more than we mortals can see with our eyes But the fountain will clean us and bring us new life And I felt you growing with every step that I’d take Your limbs were like leaves in the water that shiver and shake And I kissed you not knowing just how much was truly at stake It was as if I’d been sleeping and only then was I awake Remember the fountain, it’s spilling like words from my mouth And you hear me but can’t figure out What I mean by my metaphors, or when, why, or how We arrived at this place so far outside of town
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Call Me Out 03:55
One day I’ll pick up my guitar And write the song that I’ve been hoping for But not today I wonder if I’ve been deceived By all my wondrous, wild, hopeless dreams I cannot say I’d like to write it all for you To tell the world what we’ve been going through But it’s too much And who’d believe me anyway? I feel like my whole life has become fake So call my bluff Call me out and call me home Where is that? I do not know The curtain has been lifted on my blindness I cannot yet trust my sight I used to pick up pretty girls You came along and now you are the world To me, you know And now you say you’re different That you’ll turn around and change your whole existence But will it show? We need a little honesty To step into the light so we can see What we’ve become But some things never change What will happen if we try to rearrange And the puzzle remains undone? Call me out and call me home Where is that? I do not know The curtain has been lifted on my blindness I cannot yet trust my sight
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Were you taken from me? Did you leave of your own accord? Would you hasten again to me In another lifetime? Is there truth contained In the innocence of your lore? I swear I can hear your laugh In the stars at nighttime Now the wheat reminds me of you And a rose reminds me of you And I long for darkness Just so I can hear you And for every star I see I imagine a planet overgrown with trees And I long for silence But the stars keep shining

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released September 9, 2022

Produced by SPHMRE
Cover art by Purva Sawant
Guitar/vox/keys by Katie Miller
Guitar/vox/keys by Vie Karaitis
Bass by Vie Karaitis
Bass by Nick Iacobelli
Drums by Evan Tsioni
Violin by Victoria R. Romano
Cello by Bexx Rosenbloom of Miss Cantaloupe
Trumpet by Adam Hershberger of West Philadelphia Orchestra
Trumpet by Dawn Webster of West Philadelphia Orchestra
Flute by Chelsea Gohd of Foxanne
Recorded at Flux Studios NYC

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