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Together Through It All

by Kye Alfred Hillig

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1.
Breaking Lungs (free) 03:38
Can’t you feel all the eyes fall upon you? Shaking your hips and breaking every heart Some broke in the dark Cut from the pack before the migration Locking up doors and barring up window frames The more that you came And there’s no use for words Just show me that you love me Every way it hurts Could never be ugly Now you’re breaking up beds like a crane operator Quivering limbs and shaking free of chains You gave it away Built like a church for the man in the shadows Deeper than bones till they’re crying out your song To the breaking lungs
2.
It’s so hard to pick up the phone, but I need to call my son again and tell him he still has a home as long as he don’t bring that Hell with him I’m still his father He’s still my son His poor mother, she don’t believe that he’s gone For a while he could stay with his aunt Until she came home to empty rooms And now she’s set on saying he can’t And now I don’t really know what else to do And when he was a kid he would laugh, but now he just sits in his darkened room I tell him we should go for a drive, but he says he’s got something else to do Now nobody’s seen him in weeks And the police all say we’ll be the first they’ll call And every single day stretches on And my wife breaks down in the upstairs hall And now they’re filing into the church And staring down at his sunken face, but the tombstone don’t make the man And that’s not how I choose to remember him
3.
Be good to me I’ll be good to you And all we need is the love in between I don’t care what you did if you don’t care what I’ve done And forgiveness is a powerful thing It can be hard to admit we need each other so much And it’s easy to get lost in the days, but to open your heart despite all the pain, well I just can’t do it any other way Come close to me I’ll come close to you And we’ll hold each other all through the storm You’re as pretty as me I’m as ugly as you And each path remains equally worn And despite what you think no life is complete if it ends up exactly as planned But I’ll show you my guts If you’ll show me your guts And somehow I think we’ll both understand
4.
Diving Dove (free) 03:05
Dogs are drinking like love is over I’m invaded Call the waitress, please Bring it back to me Beaches burning black to hide her Weighed and measured You’re a keeper freed Wouldn’t you agree? It takes more than peace to keep a diving dove together Tropicana birds are brighter Growing dark for old contenders Weak and heavy Tile-virgins Nights of drinking Still a child Climbing curtains, babe The higher you go the less it’s safe
5.
Free The Birds (free) 02:48
I’ve seen every good man walk these lakes of sewage, buying souvenirs But angels can’t sleep at night or treat their bodies right They’re ruined and yet adored Baby, I’m a sinking stone Sinking straight to the bottom of the ocean And Heaven’s just a whistling tomb So, woman, come and sing my doom It’s easy You know the words So just open up your mouth and free the birds You kneel and pray for grace Just to help you shine your cage But it’s endless if you want more ‘Cause every laughing king promises the light they’d bring, but it’s shadowed and obscured ...And you can only fall from grace if you were there in the first place
6.
You & Me & Time (free) 02:30
If one more day passes us by with this void tethered to our lives Then I will starve here in your endless wake I’ll change my name and move out of state If you don’t step on the brakes Come inside It’s getting late And I’m dying for your love No more tears No more lies Just you & me & time And there’s no future without you here Just bachelored rooms and pain and beer And I’ll go on broken I swear I will But I won’t open and I won’t reveal A heart that’ll never heal And I don’t care if they think we’re wrong And I don’t care if they hate this song Let them paint the world so black and white I’ll take the colors that make up our lives, and baby we’ll paint the night
7.
War In Spring (free) 03:52
Why are things so hard with the matters of the heart, dear? You think it’ll be different, but it just isn’t You come around like some lost and found baby cries But still you hang from my head like some halo of dread And we’re counting fingers and looking backwards Till war is over and always forever amen! ‘Cause I’m down here lonesome dying in the street Like the shadow of a better man has shadowed over me And we make-believe on our hands and knees ‘Cause it’s ox to the cart and it’s bull to the butcher And you sing a song like you can’t go on anymore Come bring to me all the bells that ring Just to stop carnations and send back flowers ‘Cause there’s a torch in my heart and soul burning on
8.
About To Get Robbed (free) 03:08
Darling, I was drowning in a pit of snakes Waking up alone like a castaway Your acetylene torch in my bluest eye, but don’t talk about death he’s a friend of mine! Get me to the church and I’ll ring your bell I’m a man about town, darling, can’t you tell? And I’ll clean your skirt in my dirty dreams I’ll stand in your way so you’ll notice me And I know you’ve got your choice of men, but, baby, I’m a criminal and I’ll steal your heart away from all of them! And every day will be Halloween I’ll be President Lincoln You can be the Queen And you can put a bullet in my northern skull If you’ll lay down with me at the hospital And if you go off with another man, and name all of your children after him, then don’t dim the lights ‘cause I’m breaking in and taking you back home with me again
9.
Oar The Shore (free) 03:46
It’s a simple life if you’ll only listen The tavern gets quiet some nights below the bed we christened And they say it’s only time come eeking through the symptoms But the remainder is divine like a soft baptism And if you’re still the lonely one, Oar the shore, ‘Cause you don’t need to cry anymore And if you’re out there on your own, hear these words: Love is exactly what you deserve Your shoes were left untied so I pictured you fallen on your crystal-blooming skull, unshined, left hanging from the curtains And hearts leapt a steady beat of unwavering percussion To untwist the mighty vines that have grown over your person
10.
Life As A Rat (free) 03:05
Been preferring alleys to roads Only talking to people that I don’t know It feels good to be a stranger again To walk through the darkness To hide from my friends To look in on all your happy homes like some starving rat bit with musical notes A postcard from the gutter, I’m sure, but I’m not the man that you see anymore It’s been hard to wake up from this life of mine, to heal myself a day at a time And if tomorrow comes and you’re here by my side, then my only wish made it through the night And I wander these streets ‘til I’m lost Got a room full of actors and no one will talk I’ve been living off the things that you said Been spending my nights just to bring out the dead And then showing up when you think that I won’t To lead you on outside and into my coat To quiet the waters within Curling up in some storefront just to hold you again
11.
Trampled/Triumphant (free) 03:43
Before we’re bankrupt, crippled, and blind and you die in your way and me in mine Before the oceans swell black with blood and there’s no one left around to love... Just give me your nights Just give me your days Just lie and say we’ll stay forever this way Before we utter every useless word and they plant our bodies down in the dirt Just place your head upon my heaving chest and breathe me in until there’s nothing left... Before they pave over our honeymoon and smile at us through this broken room and shove us down into our final bed and steal your song from my weary head
12.
Lighthouse Man (free) 02:33
A lanterned skull between your shoulder blades where somebody gave you the blues I’m telling the kids to follow their dreams, but mine just took me from you But you can’t go on without hurting someone And I’m sorry, but that’s the way that it goes and it goes... The virgin lips of a McDonald's girl As black as the widow was nude They made me kill the way a butcher loves I swear that I did it for you The Lighthouse Man is a corrective shit He casts his eyes to the shore, but there’s a moment that comes when the evening is done that he wonders what it was for
13.
Nothing but empty roads Houses but no one’s home Except for the silence we bought with that Hell we brought A deer in a parking garage nestles down to sleep Where a lawyer once parked Before the dogs barked And there were so many people filling the world with noise And I know you’ll be missing all the things you have destroyed Maybe another place Maybe another time Maybe we could start again This time we’ll do it right A playground with empty swings Flies in the ice cream And a Lexus in ash with a tank full of gas The crater is now a lake from collecting all the rain And animals come to drink And their young follow in sync
14.
Does my soul still sing? Is it black as black can be? It’s been so long out here Where are the birds I heard? Does my soul still sing? Is it hanging from a tree? Down the chimney there was gold A quick cremation, now I’m broke Is there a place to sleep where the piano meets the bed? Grandmother’s hands across the keys And all the hating... Quick! They’re escaping! Does my soul still sing? ‘Cause it knows a forgery And you can’t sell it just anything Something truly precious Oh, what have you left us?

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released February 16, 2013

All songs by Kye Alfred Hillig

Produced and Mixed by James Resch, August 2012-February 2013 at:
Sheridan House: Tacoma WA,
The Loft: Buckley WA,

Mastered by Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering in Seattle WA February 2013

Additional Musicians:
James Resch
Shenandoah Davis
Antonio Patrick
Doug Wohlfeil
Sarah Furry
David Britt
Emily Ann Peterson
David Bilbrey
Amy Thompson
Samantha Boshnack
Chris Wolfe

Cover Art (Nest) by Denise Nestor: www.denisenestorillustration.com
Cover design by Barry Blankenship: www.barrytheartguy.com

For show info and more, find Kye on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/kyealfredhilligmusic

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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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