Name: October by Kate Elena
Duration: 10 min 34 s
Description: I wrote this song in the weeks leading up to the recent US election. I wanted it to encapsulate the obsessive behaviour that people displayed as well as the worry and darkness that captured not only the nation, but the entire world. Eventually the song descends into chaos, as did the election itself.

An original song haphazardly recorded using instruments I don't play often (namely, keyboards and vocals)(the piano took literally hours). I'm not much of a singer, but I'm trying to share some of my music more often.

She's Never Coming Back (original)

I Once Was A Selfish Lover Extended Version

This song had the working title "The Strangest Mixes" for a while, as it explores the dichotomy between the participants in every relationship. The first part is some proper 4/4 rock to indicate modern fast-paced living; the second is ethereal, with elements of religious music flitting in and out to indicate our spiritual nature. 
Drums: Garageband!
Bass, guitars, some keyboards and lead vocals - Me
Additional keyboards and all other vocals - Kate Healy
Artwork: Aoife Healy

Bird of Prey

I wrote this song in the weeks leading up to the recent US election. I wanted it to encapsulate the obsessive behaviour that people displayed as well as the worry and darkness that captured not only the nation, but the entire world. Eventually the song descends into chaos, as did the election itself.

October

I wrote this song in December 2015, around 6 weeks before I went on my big trip to New Zealand. I had watched the 6 Star Wars movies back to back, and stayed up for 24 hours to do it (8am-8am). I slept for a few hours and was up for the whole day, and I wrote this song that night after severe sleep deprivation!!! It was 14 months later before I had the guts to record it, and I just came up with the backing harmonies for it on the day!

Lyrics:

I'm wired right now!
It's just six weeks 'til I fly away!
And I just went one day,
Without any sleep, now I'm slightly insane.

Oh when I think of my home,
And how I might miss it for all those months,
Then I picture myself,
Roaming 'round in a van in the best country on earth:

New Zealand,
It's the place I have dreamed of, oh since I was a child.
New freedom,
It is what I have wanted for a long long time.
It's the thing I have needed for a long long time.

I'm tired right now.
It's just six months since I finished my schooling.
And I went nineteen years,
Being told what to do, but now I'm finally through!

Then I think of the times,
That I had down through all those years,
And will I miss it at all,
Or will I just move on to a brand new life?

Will I fear what I'll come back to?
Will I miss out on too much?
I must focus on the present now,
And remind myself that soon,
I will be, oh I will be

In New Zealand,
It's the place I have dreamed of, oh since I was a child.
New freedom,
It is what I have wanted for a long long time.
New Zealand,
It's the place I have dreamed of, oh since I was a child.
New freedom,
It is what I have wanted for a long long time.
It's the thing I have needed for a long long time.

New Zealand

A song about telling the world what you are going to do to the point that your not sure you wanna do it anymore

Sharing Plans, Hating the Pressure

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October

Kate Elena

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