Name: Paint the Sound
Duration: P00H04M05S
Description: This one came from the prompt: Paint the sound of your intentions. My mother is a visual artist and I peppered her for painting terms to use throughout the verses. This is about how you can know a person so well you can get navigate ups and downs in a relationship, and yet we can never truly know another person. This will be reappearing on a 5 song EP of songs about love and domiciles.

Paint the Sound

from RPM 2023: A Taste of Things to Come by Kyla Tilley

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This one came from the prompt: Paint the sound of your intentions. My mother is a visual artist and I peppered her for painting terms to use throughout the verses. This is about how you can know a person so well you can get navigate ups and downs in a relationship, and yet we can never truly know another person. This will be reappearing on a 5 song EP of songs about love and domiciles.

lyrics

words come easy
when unbid
flowing free
Unfettered
try to catch them
halt their march
cross the landscape
digging scars

words escape us
when in need
tongue tied
faltering
there forever
in still life
words unsaid
misunderstood

I'll paint the sound of your intentions
Paint them as best as I can with what I know
Maybe I've blended the colours all wrong
Maybe I've altered the shades to suit myself
But maybe I'll paint you a portrait with all your hues
Maybe I'll find all the textures you've hidden there

Actions speak louder
they say
Still we fumble
bruising
dissolve, reveal
another coat
deeply seated
sheltering

credits

from RPM 2023: A Taste of Things to Come, released March 1, 2023
Kyla Tilley: Guitar, Vocals, Bass
Julian Squires: Mixing & Mastering

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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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May 16

Spirit Music Bar

St. John's, NL
Jun 13

Spirit Music Bar

St. John's, NL
Aug 3

Bruce Spicer Park, Canning

Centreville, NS
Aug 8

Hew & Draw

Corner Brook, NL
Nov 28

Hew & Draw

Corner Brook, NL

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