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Wild Grass

by Kelly Dance

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1.
Infinite Possibilities/ What's real /In my head/ Are the visions that shape my reality/ Everyone needs their own movie / I can/ Feel you/ Overwhelmed by infinite possibility/ Overtaken by utopian society/ I am a mountain/ But these mountains look much like buildings to me/  Will you/ Shape me/Sign up to my course we're teaching dignity/For a limited money back guarantee/ We could use you/ Turn this data into harmony/ To make sense of this great bureaucracy/ I am boss free/ But these people look a lot  like bosses to me/ Join us/ Be free/ Everyone laughs and cries together/ We're in this world together/ We are the ones/ In this paradise of paradise possibility/ Everyone is part of this great harmony//
2.
All That Seems/All that seems/ Is but a dream within a dream/ All that seems/ He's got a face like an angel but his heart is cold/ When people are kind we pay no attention at all/ And all that seems/Is but a dream within a dream /All that seems/And he conjured her like a song/ A lonely line on a distant horizon/ And his words emerge like a river/ From the delta to something bigger/ Grain fallen on the ground doesn't die/ This is only the beginning/ From the path of least resistance/ On a path going no where at all/ All that seems/ Is but a dream within a dream/ All that seems/ Is but a dream within a dream/All that seems//
3.
All That's Gained/They built a subway on a great lake/ Just when you thought that Autumn had come late/ When Rapeseed blooms all around you/ There's someone following you/ This shiny city is built from dirt/ Money courses through her veins/ She's got a tiger's head with a snake’s tail/ She's all or nothing either way/ Truth weighs uneasy in the face of fortune/ When fortune smooths the wounds in the madhouse/ And it’s not too late to remember/ The man you used to be/ And it's live or die together/ When the victor pays the higher price/ When neither side can surrender/ When all that's gained is lost/  These are the days that I remember/ When all that’s gained is lost/ And its live or die together/ When the victor pays the higher price/ And neither side can surrender/ When all that's gained is lost//
4.
Socotra 03:24
Socotra/ Rid ourselves of/ Polluting waters/ Don't sit idle to watch/ Hostile forces/ Take up position/ In public opinion/ Rumours end/ With wise men/ And the Internet/ Is like Socotra/ Endemic species/ New realities/ Like a monster/ From out of space?/ Or just a chapter/ In my story/ You can make me/ Appear on TV/ Don't believe/ Everything you see here/ We must carry/ The main melody/ Arouse the great strength/ Of this society/ And I’m thinking about/ Liberation/ You show me/ Incarceration/ Virtual fantasy/ Virtual harmony/ But these walls are/ My main melody/ /
5.
Socotra Reprise/ At least I know where I stand/ You've got me held in the palm of your hand/ Your secret’s locked deep inside/You hold the key and I walk the line/ Like a pyramid cased in limestone/The world is watching you through sheets of gold/ In aggregate our state’s unknown/ My family is all I know/ And I don't mind how you say your lies/I see the truth speaking through your eyes/In the folds between your hues of gold/ is my street, my family, my home/ How did I get here/Will it be enough/For my brothers in these streets of love /Did I try hard enough/ Did I try/ /
6.
Airstrike 03:46
Airstrike/ Sunday Evening/ And I'm drifting/ Grasshoppers call/ Dainty heroes outside my walls/ And the night bird sings/ Spreading her broad wings/ Hooked beak strikes like a missile in flight/ And soldiers form/ Airstrike/ Fingered wings linger through the sky/ And citizens cry/ Led by the wind/ Her prey is whichever way the wind blows/ Hooked beak strikes like a missile in flight/ Led by the wind/ Her prey is whichever way the wind blows//
7.
Birdman 02:53
Birdman/Some Disease Is crawling/ Under my skin/ Don't let me down/ Don't let me down/ Give me shelter under your wing/ Some birds are made for killing/ a quick cupid cut below the jowl/ Don't leave me high/ Don't leave me high/ You’re all the drug I need/ In my dreams I'm falling/ In and out of your arms/ It's hard to believe/ It's hard to believe/ Our time is passing by/ It's hard to believe/ It's hard to believe/ It's hard to believe//
8.
Lost Good Hell/ In the crowd I'm right behind you/ Don't want to lose you again/’Cause I'm talking about two choices/ You're too nostalgic for your lost good hell/ And there's so much you didn't say/ Chasing shadows with your gaze/ And I can tell you something/ I wouldn't have it any other way/ Don't rely on time to speak the truth/ ‘Cause history's like writing any other story/ Just make it up as we go along/ That way we'll never be wrong/ And I can tell you something/ You're too nostalgic for our lost good hell/ And I can tell you something/ We’re too nostalgic for our lost good hell//
9.
Dangerous Visions/ There were millions and millions of people/ And I couldn't get myself together/ To be alone is to have no-one/ And to have no-one  is to have no home/ Fierce browed you walked into the crowd/ And you coolly defied everyone/ To live like you're walking upside down/ Which way is the right way anyhow/ And these are dangerous visions/ And there’s a  monster growing in my mind/ The Gun club meet to talk this thing called peace/ Our artillery is destined for obscurity/ Our chance is now to liberate the people/ To take this club to the next level/ And these are dangerous visions/ And there’s a  monster growing in my mind/ And these are dangerous visions/ And there’s a  monster growing in my mind/In the city brother will fight with brother/ They try to swallow the fear or the courage of the other/ I don't know which but I know the city lights are always brighter/ particularly when the clouds are growing darker/ And these are dangerous visions/ And there’s a  monster growing in my mind/ And these are dangerous visions/ And there’s a  monster growing in my mind//
10.
Century Sleep/ Just fall asleep for this century/ Put your mind at ease my love/ Each new era is better than the last/ At least for those who have/ You want to leave this world behind you/ To sing their songs without you/ And I hope your day will come/ When they will sing your song/ And each moment in time that passes/ I've gained in what I've lost/ And if I could leave you something/ I'd leave you my burning heart/ And what use is my body/ When all I need are these memories/ To float in and out of my ecstasy/ In and out of my body//
11.
Remember Me 02:30
Remember me/ Remember me/ Remember me/ ’Cause I’m not walking on/ You're like the wind blowing in/ Sweet ideas racing in/ I've got a little bit of money/ To buy our way out of this city/ The mess we're in/ And the mess we're in/ Take highway 31/ From Beijing to Yunnan's Kunming/ I want a small small high/ I want a small small high/ You said you got a little bit of something/ But I can’t wait I’m checking-out honey/ I can’t wait/ I can’t wait/ For the blossoms in mid-July/ As red as my heart and I can't find/ Your love/ Your love/ Is like the wind blowing in/ And sweet ideas are racing in/ Your love/ Your love/ Your love//
12.
The Track 03:07
The Track/ Ten to one drive/ The favourite’s fallen behind/ And I'm sitting high/ Because my baby is going to cross that line/ She keeps me up at night/ I ask her to quit/ But she tells me, Baby/ it makes me feel so alive/ And it's a perfect day/ Because the favourite is giving way/ Placing my bets/ Someone hollers hey/ Get back/ There's a jockey/ She's down/ She's on the track/ She keeps me up at night/ I ask her to quit/ But she tells me, Baby/ it makes me feel so alive/ And it's a perfect day/ Because the favourite is giving way//
13.
Wild Grass 05:45
Wild Grass/ All's lost/ The Yangtze’s all covered in snow/ All's lost/ In winter's heavenly vault/ Where wild grass cannot grow/ So long/ So long fellow brothers in hell/ Say Good Night/ Brother sweet brothers in hell/ Won’t you tell me what’s on your mind/ Is it something that we lost / When all the fire went out/ Let me die where ghosts can grow old/ Where the wild demons still roam/ Where we will be remembered/ Where our stories are told/ So long the good hell that was lost/ She'll be remembered so well/ And the ground's all covered in snow/ But may your wild grasses grow/ And so long all that was lost/ In Winter's heavenly vault/ And the ground is all covered in snow/ But may your wild grasses grow/And so long all that was lost/ In Winter's heavenly vault/ And the ground is all covered in snow/ But may your wild grasses grow//

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Kelly Dance’s new Album ‘Wild Grass’ , inspired by Chinese Science-Fiction stories , is a small tribute to living, loving and coming of age in Modern China

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released March 10, 2017

All songs written by Kelly Dance
Lost Good Hell & Birdman co-written with Aidan Roberts
Produced by Aidan Roberts & Johnny Dance
Instrumental & background vocal arrangements for Lost Good Hell, Wild Grass, Dangerous Visions, All that’s Gained, The Track, Century Sleep, Birdman and All that Seems by Aidan Roberts
Instrumental & background vocal arrangements for Socotra, Socotra Reprise, Infinite Possibilities by Johnny Dance
Drum arrangements by Paul Derricott
Background vocal arrangements for Wild Grass by Sarah Belkner
String arrangements for Century Sleep by Jamie McCarthy
Orchestration for Century Sleep by Daniel Lea
Flute for Airstrike by Peter Kaldor
Engineered by Aidan Roberts & Johnny Dance (The Yips Studio, Hong Kong) Richard Belkner (FED Studio, Sydney) and Daniel Lea (Golden Hum, London)
Mixed by Richard Belkner at FED Studio, Sydney
Mastered at Abbey Road, London.
Cover Photo: Stevie Dance/ Cover Layout: Michael Giles
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