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Kris Kelly

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Kris Kelly

Kris Kelly is a singer/songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Austin, TX, he moved to New York City at the age of 17 to attend NYU, where he studied classical vocal performance and music composition. For years he performed his original compositions for guitar, vocals, flute, violin, bass, and percussion at many popular NYC venues. Kelly then spent 5 years traveling through South America with just his guitar and a suitcase. Living most in Argentina and Brazil, Kelly met his husband, and his travel experiences inspired the core of Kelly’s album — pure love, loss, discovery, and growth. When he returned to the USA, Kelly recorded the album between NYC and LA with an all-star team of musicians. “Runaways”, due for release in early 2019, features Kris on acoustic guitar & vocals, string/wind/horn arrangements by John Philip Shenale (Tori Amos), Todd Sickafoose (Ani DiFranco) on bass, Brian Griffin (Lana Del Rey, The Lone Bellow, Brandi Carlile) on drums, Dave Levita (Alanis Morrisette) & Benji Lysaght (Father John Misty) on electric guitar, and Dave Palmer (Fiona Apple, Lana Del Rey) on keyboards. Kelly self-produced the album and it was mixed by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Andy Shauf).


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Shalom, yanqui!
He blew in light as a feather
On the wings of a drifter
He’s floating high on the freedom
And I thought that he might be a runaway too.

“You’re today's lover,
Tomorrow’s just a game we play,”
That sun-kissed rasta said.
"Love ‘em while you're with ‘em!"
And I thought that he might be a runaway too.

But then when we fall out of routine
We run rootless all through the garden like children,
We surrender in to be here this moment.
We’re swallowed whole, then we are born again.
This is wild love.
This is our birthplace, now.

Like the wandering sadhu
He grew tired of carrying
A past so weighted,
Then forgot to remember.
And I thought that he might be a runaway too.

But then when we fall out of routine
We run rootless all through the garden like children,
We surrender in to be here this moment.
We’re swallowed whole, then we are born again.
This is wild love.
This is our birthplace, now.

Where is the master? Go on, get him up!
I wanna be back in the game.
But I don’t wanna be back in the game.

Do you still grow there, edelweiss?
I took the long way, it led me far from home. 
One day I’ll come back, edelweiss,
But I’m not the same now. We’ll make something new.

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Written by: Kris Kelly

Submitted on June 04, 2019

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