The Other Ram

by R.A.Kane

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1.
teachers teach us bind us and lead us down the garden path and then leave us there is no turning back the bones of creatures castles on beaches poison rain cuts the earth into pieces there is no turning back there is no turning back there is no turning back
2.
we're living in a dolls house a dolls house our heart it quivers like a door mouse asleep on sawdust like winter descending on us do you feel the same way feel the same way caught through the looking glass sunny weather we pose at the window we're living in a dolls house a dolls house all dressed in our sunday best and the hands reach in - yes and they place us perfectly - yes do you feel the same way feel the same way caught through the looking glass sunny weather we pose at the window rule number 1 - don't jump over these walls rule number 2 - don't muse upon these clocks rule number 3 - don't leave your curtain's drawn rule number 4 - don't slam the kitchen door rule number 5 - don't go the bed and hide rule number 6 - don't watch the clock transfixed rule number 7 - don't depend on the weather rule number 8 - don't leave your dinner plate rule number 9 - don't repeated your lies rule number 10 - don't when it's the end a dolls house (we are living)
3.
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on stage applause we'll wait for the curtain to fall on this dress rehearsal are we still here? no friends on shore we'll wave at the final encore of this dress rehearsal are we still here?
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5.
put on our masks for our last dance the marks that stain always remain this house of cards shatters like glass each pulse sustains unrivaled pain the ides of march a passing glance a carriage waits at the journey's end
6.
in their rooms in their tombs in their ribbons in their wombs in their bones in their homes in their gardens in their thrones in their clouds in their shrouds in their waters in their crowns in their beds in their threads in their garters in their shreds in their cloaks in their shows in their stories in their smoke in their past in their glass in their mournings in their masks
7.
and how we built the tempest (wake up)
8.
wave after wave as the church bell chimes this ringing in the eaves all across the asphalt skies one of these days when the ram horn cries brings angels to my window wake me in the dead of night as their shadows descend like the hands of time cutting at the chords turning all the blackness white some of the fears that'll change our lives from far beyond the pale they'll lay us on a bed of knives meeting up as friend in the morning light as so we just pretend that the candles in our head aren't fires
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morning august fallen soldier drawn and quartered cross the border my casket once hollow now beats like the heart of a swallow it's all for the parade all for the parade my armour dead weapon now meet as the midnight threatens it's all for the parade all for the parade sons and daughters wade through water bearing crosses mourning autumn my hammer it cuts shadows into the eyes like a lines of arrows it's all for the parade all for the parade my talons unravel to the hisses of a cold death rattle it's all for the parade all for the parade

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The Other Ram, my debut self-release, was completed in the summer of 2011. Written and recorded in my home studio, it charts the break from my long term partner and musical collaborator. Using an intimate palette of: vocals, piano, cello and drums, The Other Ram is steeped in the realm of dream-pop (a genre pioneered by independent labels such as 4AD and Creation Records). The Other Ram was mixed by Matthew Wiggins at The Yard (London) and Mastered by Jon Davis at Metropolis Studios (London). 

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released August 1, 2011

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R.A.Kane UK

My piano driven music fuses the sounds of contemporary indie folk with the rich textures of shoegazing.

For more information about me, including a press pack, please email: r.a.kane@hotmail.co.uk.

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