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Swimsuit & Axe

by Kyla Tilley

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This is a co-write with Cara Winsor Hehir. It is a song about loss and depression and those voices inside your head. It is also about forging your own path out of the darkness, and ends on a positive note.

I had a lot of fun playing the guitar for this one.

lyrics

I'm trapped in the basement
I don't have an ashtray
and I spend my time wasting
and fretting on bad days
Black mould on the lungs
Burn holes in all of my shoes

Chorus:
If I could focus on good deeds not bad
I might have spent winter not feeling so down
Replaying what she's saying over and endless and on
I'd have strode out on the ice with my swimsuit and axe
I'd have chopped a big hole with a few clumsy whacks
and I'd drown out her voice there in the frozen pond

Throw your arms out
Unfurl your cloak
Push on through
Do the butterfly stroke
Kick out hard and ride on the wave that you make
Let the murk and the muck pass underneath
Let the grasses and fishes tickle your feet

Chorus

Float on your back
Take a breath deep
With ears full of water
You can't hear her speak
Kick out hard and ride on the wave that you make
Let the murk and the muck pass underneath
Let the grasses and fishes tickle your feet

Fingertips wrinkled
Up high on bliss
Skin smells like pond's
boggy dank kiss

Skin prickles and shiver, lips blue, digits pale
Joy quivers to bursting in euphoric flail

Chorus

Down in the bog
Cold from the spring
Leaches and eels to the rocks clinging
Musky and muddy and stinking of peat
Frog song, fly bitten
I am complete

credits

released March 26, 2021
Lyrics by: Cara Winsor Hehir
Music by: Kyla Tilley

Kyla Tilley: Guitar, Vocals, Bass
Julian Squires: Drums

Mixed and Mastered by Julian Squires

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Kyla Tilley Newfoundland and Labrador

Kyla Tilley plays guitar, wears high heels, and writes sometimes sad, often funny, occasionally disconcerting, story-telling songs which rarely rhyme.

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