The title track from Kelly Dance's new EP ‘All That’s Gained’ is inspired by Chinese Science Fiction author Chan Koonchung’s ‘The Fat Years’. It considers the stalemate between kids coming of age in China’s impending “Golden Age of Ascendancy” as Koonchung imagines it and a Chinese government maintaining economic growth and stability through strict control.
lyrics
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 weighed uneasy in the face of fortune/ When fortune smoothed 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
credits
from ALL THAT'S GAINED,
released April 8, 2016
Kelly Dance: Vocals/Paul Derricott: Drums/ Daniel Lea: Dulcitone/ Aidan Roberts: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Glass Bells, Percussion, Synthesizer, Trumpet
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Feelings I get from this EP: Like walking down a boulevard in some sunny American state, while the magic hour twilight bounces off the pavement, people smoke and talk and fall in love and out of love. A bittersweet place, because we know the night is coming, but it's not yet here. Michael Keerdo-Dawson