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The Leading Light

by KAMI

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1.
Counterfire 02:05
Exhausted by our lives Our last strengths to fight We want the King and his wife Won’t wait for the afterlife Watch out ! Counterfire ! Tick-tock here’s the count-down When everything comes down The rats invade the town Deciding to smash the crown Watch out ! Counterfire ! We will write it on the walls We will scream it till you fall Listen to these screaming walls Where we are writing your fall Watch out ! Counterfire !
2.
How many repetitions Make one truth or strobonic injections ? OBEY ! Jump into the Whale’s mouth ? No need You’re already in at your house. We are Dogs, dogs are so thirsty, I am Available, sink into me, be my guide Go, I lust for pleasure, come on You’re my favourite leisure Do you lie when I am between your legs ? Do you lie when I am between your legs ? So temptress, so sexy. What a Spectacular society ! I’m weak So spins and seduction, I need These necessary illusions. Consent ! Who’s really the prostitute ? Surely Not the one who wins the lawsuit. Not guilty ! He looks straight in the eye, like the Voice of Fate, she does never lie Do you lie when I am between your legs ? Do you lie when I am between your legs ? Who said it was a lie ? Did I ? Truth is just a matter of style I’m lying…
3.
Raindrops 03:12
Raindrops all over my face I can feel how they're getting down my neck I could stay here, staring at your game Don't you see that I am standing down there ? Raindrops getting down my neck I can feel how they are freezing my flesh Will it be alright when you figure out that it's too late ? Don't look back when you turn off the lights, it is ok Get a breath of air No more time to spare Hold me tight, scars mend eventually My heartbeats so near Wrap your atmosphere Hold me tight, scars mend eventually Will it be alright when you figure out that it's too late ? Don't look back when you turn off the lights, it is ok
4.
Rabbit hole, I feel so safe My music and my books No people and their looks Rabbit hole, no daylight Nothing comes with my songs Time goes by, nights are long Sunny afternoon, Gorlitzer Park Until it’s cold and completely dark Oh Berlin, the day is not enough Electro parties by day by night Drinking beers with friends at the flat Oh Berlin, the night is not enough Rabbit hole, I felt so safe My music and my books No people and their looks I can still hear her voice, telling me : "Stop living through your books Go out, take a look" Rabbit hole, no daylight Nothing came with my songs Time went by, nights were long I can still hear her voice, telling me : "Stop living through your books Go out, take a look"
5.
Holding on to the next one Finding out our ennemy won Now you’re leaving and I am not that impressed By the time we were alright No one was the leading light Now I feel like I will never rest We will give it a try There’s nothing left to worry about, honey The sky, the trees, you and I There’s nothing left to worry about, honey I don’t think before I speak And I hope these words won’t leak It would help us not to be that dispossed We will give it a try There’s nothing left to worry about, honey The sky, the trees, you and I There’s nothing left to worry about, honey Oh my god where the hell should we go ? Oh my lord should we take this way down below ? You were all romantically harmonized But you were all so differently magnetised Oh my god it seems we are in a violent flow Oh my lord where the hell should we go ?
6.
Times are not changing But you’re an other There were many doubts But you’re an other After the first death there’s no other Everyone told me : "I don’t know and have to agree There is no guarantee, how will end my family tree"
7.
I’ve seen all the faces of this shore I’ve been there before Neither poetry nor ambition Nor love or any fiction Have influence on me As they pass by me Every circle is a broken soul A broken circle is like every soul It is equal To an endless line You’ve seen all the damage I’ve done And yet the thrill’s back on I see you crystal clear and there’s no fear As I lay here and stand near Long story short It won’t help in any sort Every circle is a broken soul A broken circle is like every soul It is equal To an endless line I’ve heard a war is a fatal period And that it’s always lost
8.
When everything stops making sense you run out of breath Ain't you the only one to blame sometimes ? If you think it makes no difference you’re lying to yourself And don't you ever feel the same sometimes ? When the city lights are gone you run out of breath It seems like the sun will never rise again If you think it depends on me don’t lie to yourself Do you reckon you’ll be able to dream again ? Crave for grace Crave for grace Open up your heart If you're scared to fail You put your mind in jail Will you open up your heart ? Will you dream again ? Will you hope again ? Will you open up your heart ?
9.
Obstacles 03:45
I suffocate in this empty bed, in this no man’s land Silence echoes around my head, your ghost In front of the Palace of Tears, no kiss, no embrace I’ve been waiting there for two years, in vain Why this wall in just one night ? How is life on your side ? Silence became our favourite song, it’s the void only talking now Are we doomed to oblivion, as your voice ? Disappear into a black hole, opaque obscuring the past Wasn’t it that you feared the most, one time ? Why this wall in just one night ? How is life on your side ? I will cross all obstacles I’ll never give up I will cross all rivers and walls To find you
10.
Last Summer 04:16
Through the curtains, the sun lights up the walls Of your room where, we are awake But we don’t want to get out of bed Just enjoy every moment Pictures come back to my mind I close my eyes with a smile Sometimes it’s good to rewind And stop back there for a while The sky’s orange and pink, the day is ending Surrounded by trees, on your Balcony we are getting some air Just enjoy every moment Pictures come back to my mind I close my eyes with a smile Sometimes it’s good to rewind And stop back there for a while Summer ended, autumn comes Sunny days can’t last all the time We wrote our last paragraph Last summer with you is now an old photograph

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All songs written in Neukölln (Berlin, Germany) between February and April 2011.

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released April 1, 2013

Produced by Bertrand Montandon.
Recorded and mixed by Bertrand Montandon at Studio Vega
(Carpentras, France) between January and March 2012.
Mastered by Benjamin Joubert at Translab (Paris, France) in April 2012.

All songs by KAMI (Debono, Henriot, Marmoz).
Hervé Debono : vocals, guitar, keyboards and Fender Rhodes;
Martin Henriot : guitar, keyboards, Fender Rhodes, piano, glockenspiel and vocals;
Maxime Marmoz : drums, glockenspiel, keyboards and vocals.

All bass played by Samy Prou.

Additional vocals by Aurélie Guigue, Manon Vialle and Samy Prou
on "Key Searchers" and "Last Summer"; and by Oliver Knowles
on "Broken Circle".

Cover by Romuald Sintes, from a photograph by Diane Sagnier.
Model : Eugénie Mesquita

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