Kelartic (Single Version)

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lyrics

We’ve come to the closing of time
So raise the last carrot wine
None of us are long for this earth

That bore our pride
The animals
Dying

Wade past wrecked revolutions
And defeated utopias
To start our exile

I wanted to tell someone
Write a new language just for the end
With syllables sweet
Letters that crumble like buildings

One that could mourn with fire now doused and shadowed
One that could say what it was for all this to go

But I lack control, I couldn’t know
because I was born a liar
And I’ll drown a liar
I was born a liar
And I’ll drown a liar

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released December 16, 2022
Written and recorded by Rishi Gupta

saxophone - Sarah Hughes
bass - Mackenzie Voytko
all else - Rishi Gupta

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Slowcore, primitive guitar, leftist melancholia

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