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Real Snow

by Kye Alfred Hillig

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1.
Cold Front (free) 03:38
I'll tell you one more time I won't stay You can cry all you want, you can crawl, you can beg But I'm gone. I told you I'm gone! & when you wake up tomorrow and no one is there -And you throw on some clothes -And you blow dry your hair But it's just a hot wind blowing your world around 'Cause there's a cold front moving in & if you stay here you're bound to get snowed in Because I'm never coming back again My feet are moving forward and my heart's on the mend But I'm never coming back again I'll tell you one more time that I'm gone You can pick up the phone You can call on someone, but not me (You see?) I ain't answering & when you're home at night & the quiet pervades There's a story you tell yourself to escape the truth: You had a hand in bringing it to the end
2.
Ugly We Were Born (free) 03:58
Q: "Heavenly gates, Oh! Don't you want me? Don't you think I'd make a great slave?" They've been making a wish to carry your casket Down the river and far away Throw your light through my open door- Through my broken heart once more & if it shines then we'll know for sure: It's kind of ugly we were born- We are born! It's a matter of days without Viola They brought her flowers: {hospital beds} When the branches bloomed they thought they had her But she went slipping right through the grates A pack a day since the movies- Since your sister showed you how & if the backseat feels unfamiliar Well, I'm sure you'll figure it out They got carried away drinking Fridays Like some revolver comes unglued Beat about the face with bloody water They can't wash you clean, but they'll strip you nude
3.
Stranger than me, Stranger than you, Is the world that's keeping us apart. You want a quote that you can put in the news But you'll say nothing from your heart The voice of fear: Your architect Built you your castle made of snow To look down on me from those icy heights To act as if you really know Oh! My love is a blinding light Hang 'em high (at the slaughter house) & you might think that you've seen my face But not one of you know me now Over the years, My beautiful friends Treated me better than they should Lifted me higher than my heart was low To stop the bleeding if they could The criminal in me He loves you too More than words could ever say But this darkness it lives to see The day I usher love away
4.
The Night Obscene (free) 03:22
Curled up upon the couch, like handcuffs to take them out, my old two loves. One with teeth like dogs, that brought the holocaust to crystal ball; & the other chained to see the things deepest in me: the gardener's rope. Q; Did they show you to the room? Q: Fill fountains of youth into blue jeans? The night obscene: Climbs every wall- -Calls out my name- like an animal that's grown too BIG for its cage Not a father nor a child: A shaken snow globe just tossing flakes 'til the laughter's fallen flat down elevator shafts. They want real snow, but I mapped their darkened streets & gave the courtesy of replacing bulbs. -But it's more than room and board & their bodies only know one currency.
5.
Like God (free) 06:18
I'll come like God into your life Morning, noon, and night I'll come like God! I'll steal the bread right from your mouth Oh! Look who's hungry now & who's dining out Pour the wine right down the hatch It's never coming back a stricken match I'll suck the love out of your bones Empty hearts and empty homes I'll come like God! {No way home} I'll come like God into your life Wake the Children/leave the wife I'll come like God! I'll make a widow of the day Your sexy youth now passed away & just left the stem Like a dog under the car When you wish upon a star and get (a loan) Every meal's an empty plate Running black all through your face I'll come like God!
6.
Useless Keys (free) 03:42
There's a world I'll never touch & it's right outside the door I hear the passion calling screams I hear the breaking of the boards There's a world I'll never touch & it's a secret that you keep About the night you dropped your guard & let them sip your gutters clean & I have all these useless keys I keep shoving into locks hoping you'll open up to me, but maybe it's just a dream There's a world I'll never touch 'cause I was born in the wrong way As bland as drying fruit As benign as burning sage There's a world I'll never touch & it thrives in beaten dens -Like Heaven peeling leaves -Like hanging photos over beds
7.
Ice Age XVII (free) 04:32
It was at the senior prom Corsages in the limo Some sweet thing upon your arm Your dad's words in your mind saying, "You can't trust the way a man treats a woman, But how he treats another man, well, that's most likely him." & as you stepped into the gym Tuxedo'd and slicked back Your date giggled to her friends Oh how you wished it'd never end... But it's the ice age now I bet you never thought you'd feel this way It left you wandering 'round Like every little thing you dreamed All you ever do is give it up Just to pay to cry Until it turned into your life & that mammoth towered high So you thought that it owned you You laid virgins at its feet Each one its own defeat Until there was no sun in your sky Only a camera that took pictures of your wife & told you when to smile Like none of us survive Now don't you dare tattle I'm the best you'll ever do But, baby, where's the proof?
8.
A horse carried through miles of snow Just to get it home before it passes on. 'Cause love ain't some candy store like your eyes had sworn When I missed your greying streaks tucked back behind the eaves & Oh- I kinda love it all! The dove and the cannon ball It's just to laugh- It's just to cry- But it's this kind of thing that's keeping us alive So someone stole your violin; will you ever play again? 'Cause I miss your serenade to the one that got away 'Cause it gets so hard to believe in damn near anything I want that world inside your mind; please let me come inside This world it will carry on long after we're gone No, it don't need us to spin; yeah, we're just here visiting So please, when I sing my songs won't you sing along? 'Cause we make great harmonies: The beauty and the beast
9.
Ex (free) 04:39
How sad it would be to be your ex To have fallen from your light Plants grown brown & dry To drop off a child with equal parts blood Exchanging the details of "yes, he ate enough" Catching whiffs of cologne through the open door Driving away: 'oh, the way we were before!' Many deaths humble the coffin God just ruffles your hair when you've fallen How tasteless each bite becomes To remain in a world that only knows your song, but has outlawed the words To catch eyes across a room: Shrugged into lemonade To look at the life (yeah, the life that we made) Pumping the gas while some tired blonde that looks like you from the back turns the stereo on. All of my friends grown so tired of the story Keep trying to have me meet {1} Emily, {2} Jen, and {3} Tori To know that if I'd gone left instead of right If I'd left the door unlocked so you'd get in at night If only I’d touched your hand & asked you to stay in the church that we built before we ever had to pray. If days wouldn't pass without my permission I would hold them back and cherish what I'm missing
10.
Bells of Doom (free) 03:16
When the days have smoked this world to ash & the night won't lift & the past won't rest They climb the tower/They ring the bell They've been selling us Heaven, but then giving us Hell & I'll be awake whenever you get home The man that you love, the man that you know Every mountain will fall Our bodies turn to bone, But I'll break this bed just to hear you moan You can break a world you didn't know was there Running dark red blood through bleach blonde hair This stolen Earth before the theft- Every rotting mouth saying it's blessed
11.
Sister, build the stairs so high you fall I never really knew you much at all Just a couple evenings in, Some Trojans and a laughing fit (I never really knew you much at all) Time flew by the more we drank Somehow I thought we would escape Tied the dogs up to the porch Thought I heard you call me 'sir' (I never really knew you much at all) Muddy footprints lead away From the bed out to the grave I could ask you what you're bringing in A kennel for your closest friends? (I never really knew you much at all) Table to table serving food I flagged you down, not to be rude, but... Q: how do we open up the gate again? And let another stranger in? (I never really knew you much at all)
12.
Remains of Elephants (free) 04:27
You can wear a mask: A wedding ring Maybe if you hide your face your life won't mean anything Some dead remains: You look away Oh, I cannot carry you; I don't think I have the strength Don't you ever shelter me: I'll survive Some of these days just leave me weak: but that's just life Lord knows where you will lead your faking light Just 'cause it's dark outside don't mean it's night You grab a drink: You sleep around The years go by and the one you love you never found You talk to God: You hope he's home You put a rifle in your mouth & leave your lovely wife & kids alone Q: What remains of elephants? Q: Some neutered tusks turned into keys? Well, you can make that piano sing or you can die tangled in its strings

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released April 8, 2014

All songs by Kye Alfred Hillig except ‘Remains of Elephants’: (Lyrics: Kye Alfred Hillig. Music: Kye Alfred Hillig & James Holden Resch)
‘The Fields & The Flies’ written and performed by Milton The Long Haul Poet.

Produced and Mixed by James Holden Resch with Kye Alfred Hillig, August 2013- April 2014 at The Loft: Buckley, WA.

Mastered by Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering in Seattle, WA April 2014

Additional Musicians:
James Resch
Doug Wohlfeil
Melanie Harding
David Britt
Emily Ann Peterson
Tiffany Pike
Troy Christensen
Beth Hearns

Cover photo by Scott Haydon: www.scotthaydon.com
Cover design by Barry Blankenship: www.barrytheartguy.com

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Kye Alfred Hillig Tacoma, Washington

Lost his family in a house fire, but saved his guitar. Plays songs his family’s never heard. (Tacoma, WA Singer-Songwriter)

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