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The First Lullaby

from Etemenanki by Kate Koenig

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I like to say you're not real, but I know I am
You like to say I'm not real, but you know you are
I'm just afraid I won't be there waiting for you
You're just afraid you won't be there waiting for me

Please, please see me clearly
Please, speak a language that is new
So I may see myself in your eyes
Once, once I was blind
I felt your braille beneath my feet
Where have you gone
Between the lines of the fabled and the weak?
All, all of this time, has it been ...

I've been here before, yeah
I've been here before
Trapped within this immortal rhythm
I've been here before, yeah
I've been here before
Trapped within this immortal rhythm

I've read all the myths
I can't read anymore
Why is everything so frail?
In your hands, I am whole
A fresh suit for mourning

I'm just afraid you won't be there waiting for me
You're just afraid I won't be there waiting for you
Please, please in your eyes,
Please show me there, I cannot know
Myself without, reflection seen
I am just gone
Shadow of the dust, into the air
I'm disappearing into ground
Yes, yes I have been here before
Yes, yes I have been here before
Ah ...

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from Etemenanki, released January 31, 2021
Mastered by Kevin Ramsay

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Kate Koenig Brooklyn, New York

Kate Koenig is a very hungry experimental folk caterpillar that eats Fleet Foxes’ progressivism and Kate Bush's iconoclasticism and Jeff Buckley’s zeal and Nick Drake’s disenchantment, and is still eating while you read this bio. They are also a fierce advocate for mental health awareness, which comes out in the deeply personal, introspective theater of their music. ... more

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