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Painting & Drawing

by Bull Kelp

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1.
Dandelion 03:26
Baby, did you lock the gate? Did you turn the lights out? Babe I had a bad dream Baby am I running late? Or am I just losing count? Is this all a bad dream? Dandelion seeds on the wind Baby, did you let them in? Baby, let's not do this now Hey I'm not saying never But I don't think I'm ready Yes I know the circle's round But I can take forever Getting myself ready There's nothing wrong with feeling sad sometimes an egg that's not been fertilized Scream into the night, the animal inside is bristling and staring down your logical side Baby if you marry me, We'll live in the holler of the wild oak tree You'll have to take care of me and we will live in squalor but I will love you only, I will love you only
2.
Lonely Woman 03:14
There's a lonely woman inside of me Making up a bed for company Fire in the hearth, soup on the fire Mending pillowcases as the sun retires Morning comes, no-one came The lonely woman fills with rage She tears the blankets to shreds Takes an axe to the bed In the Paperchase, I am waves lapping on the day Swaying like bull kelp in a muted summer storm Grieving for my structures that have all been washed away Rise into the next month, get some rest each evening There's an angry people inside of me Killing off eachother in blind fury Fire in their eyes, villages on fire Put the child down the mine, take whatever he finds If he survives
3.
Feels So 04:38
Feelings from a good place Butterflies cause hurricanes I'll lay you down love, lay you to waste Cos It feels so good to, feels so good, feels so Everyone has got a love so deep Appearances are so hard to keep You laugh and weep and laugh and weep Cos it feels so good to, feels so good, feels so I go and I don't look back I love like a heart attack I take my coffee black Cos it feels so good to, feels so good, feels so I don't want nothing but the very best for you, I want you to love and be loved so well, but I don't want to know about it, I don't want to see you out with somebody else, oh no
4.
Skewered 02:19
I've been gone too long You moved on along I thought you would wait for me What a stupid fantasy If these are your new friends Pledge alleigance Wear your jersey proudly Don't expect my hospitality Choose which side you're on, Fight long and hard for the cause Your life force can only spread so far You can only be where you are If I'd looked a move ahead I'd have moved my bishop Now you've got me skewered You bastard
5.
Reflex 02:41
I don't have to tell my fingers what to do, they just move Somehow without conscious thought they always make the right shapes I taught em how, and now it's not something I have to think about You made up your mind before you ever heard a single word What's the difference between a thought process and a reflex? You moralize as easily as you would breathe or blink your eyes Chickens with their heads cut off don't need brains to run around and digest grains It's generous to say you didn't think twice, you have a large brain but a spinal cord would suffice When I say that you are lost, it's not to say I know the way No-one's brain can really hold the whole meaning of anything You filter out what you decide you don't need to think about Tell me what am I supposed to do with conflicting truths? How did you distill it all into one opinion? It hurt to think, somebody get me a stiff drink Chickens with their heads cut off don't need brains to run around and digest grains It's generous to say you didn't think twice, you have a large brain but a spinal cord would suffice
6.
Grown Ups 02:02
With a baby on the way, and a ring on your hand These are legitimate grown-up plans I have to admit I feel it too when I see those tiny fingernails A house in the 'burbs and two cars out front A cat and a dog and a jolly jumper When you fell in love, I adored all her letters pinned to your bulletin board All the photobooth proof of something so deeply good Why wait, if you've found your mate and you're bound to make a deadline the day that you die Please when we're old can we drink on the beach dance in the shallow waves and cut our feet
7.
The frothing ocean & jagged rocks A man gets a better look the closer he walks It's hard to imagine what's going through his head as he steps closer to the edge There is a kind of visceral thrill peering down at a drop that would kill without going over you want to discern The point of no return You didn't eat a thing all day Your stomach tried to flush nothing away You sat on the front step with a sunburn to sing Over its grumbling There is a kind of visceral thrill peering down at a drop that would kill without going over you want to discern The point of no return There is a little kernel of truth Standing behind a kissing booth The understood rules of intimacy & skirting their boundaries There is a kind of visceral thrill peering down at a drop that would kill without going over you want to discern The point of no return
8.
Matryoshka 02:58
She lay on her back in the bathtub and made small waves on the island of her belly all alone in the company of her matryoshka She lay on her side on the hardwood floor curled up beneath the melting piano the paintings on the wall melting down into a rainbow puddle She lay on her back on a stretcher the nurse has dark skies underneath his tired eyes the janitor sang as she swept The mountain range of heartbeats sloping down to flatlands the blue gloves reaching underground to pull out the matryoshka
9.
True love, wherever you might be, listen to me it might seem like I'm giving up on you, but that ain't true it's just late and I'm getting tired I ain't givin' up on you, I've just got things I've got to do I need time to think this through, so I am moving on The longer you spend just looking for one thing the harder that thing can get to find, yeah you go blind I'll come back to this in the morning I ain't givin' up on you, I've just got things I've got to do I need time to think this through, so I am moving on Just the way a WHS degrades each time it's played your memory is warmer every time it comes to mind and I'm caught in the background noise I ain't givin' up on you, I've just got things I've got to do I need time to think this through, so I am moving on I ain't givin' up on you, I just need a week or two to walk a mile in my own shoes, so I am moving on I am moving on
10.
Blackened baking pans years of charred existence island prison she didn't look at the price just the description He makes popcorn in his 3-piece suit standing on the back step adjusting a new watch But somehow, happiness stares back at me with that same blank expression She wants a man who'll come home with dirt on his hands instead he stands at the post office lusting after the stamps Taurus or Aries He writes letters to his darling dark cloud words and drawings always lift her shroud But somehow, happiness stares down at me miming a single tear
11.
Deep Fry 03:56
The tubes are packed with people moving at alarming speeds the ants in the hill have all got their own hopes & needs their lips move to the music pumping straight into their brains their eyes avoid the gazes of the others on the trains The air is filled with deep fry, weird vibes, and wi-fi it's a stew of human energy is there room for me in this city? There's nothing you can show me that I ain't already seen my life has flashed before me on a thousand little screens and it broke my heart to find out that the sweet things that you said to me were lines that you stole right out of some movie Everyone is such a hypocrite and they don't realize they speak in absolutes and they all generalize it's such a hassle being so much smarter than everyone around don't they know how full of themselves they sound? The air is filled with deep fry, weird vibes, and wi-fi it's a stew of human energy is there room for me in this city? What's your name? Where are you from? What do you do? Where did you go to school? What have you done? Who exactly do you think you are?

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Painting & Drawing is the first album from Bull Kelp, a collaboration between songwriters Zoe Guigueno and Taylor Ashton

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released March 15, 2013

Taylor Ashton - guitar, banjo, voice
Zoe Guigueno - upright bass, voice

Recorded in April 2012 by Darwin Baker
Mixed by Adam Iredale-Gray
Mastered by Nathan Moore (NCM Sound)
Layout by Taylor Ashton
Artwork by Clifton Phachanla, Kenrick Ayow, Paul Densmore, Holy Phillips, Mehdi Ansari, Lenny (no surname given), Irma Kniivila, and Steven Shelton

This album was largely possible due to the generous supporters of our Indiegogo campaign.

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Bull Kelp Toronto, Ontario

Bull Kelp is Taylor Ashton and Zoe Guigueno. The two played together in the five-piece band Fish & Bird for two years, and when Zoe left that band the two formed Bull Kelp as a way to keep playing together and to play new tunes in a sparse musical setting.
With a guitar, a banjo and an upright bass, Taylor and Zoe weave dense lyrics in harmony through unconventional chord changes
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