In the Balance

Stream on Spotify/Apple Music: https://ffm.to/callumpitt-mayfly

Lyrics:
'Cause I am a black dog howling at the moon,
A long winter in a cocoon, 
A dying man in a living room, and I know it well

Can I be more than a deer in the road?
Same clothes, same postcode, 
I don’t deserve the love that I am shown, 
But someday I will

'Cause I, I need time, so I can be, who you need me to be, so hold out please

I am the river, you’re the mayflies falling, 
It covers all like a pink sky morning, 
You’re shouting out into a vacuum miles away

Love towers above me like a tidal wave,
Reminder of the friends we couldn’t save,
So comes the day of reckoning like a parade

'Cause I, I need time, so I can be, who you need me to be
I, I need time

Mayfly

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1TTuqgo4M9SoSlBnhvbfLr?si=vjsgIpsMRvqDN27Hhzs9Nw&utm_source=copy-link

Lyrics: 
I saw a devil in my sleep, within a crowd, watching me, 
Felt him in myself and I went still,
He moves in the empty spaces we don’t fill

I felt a God within my veins, as your drums started playing,
Pushing the endorphins ‘round my brain, 
In a sea of people shouting to release their pain

I feel alone, but I feel in my bones tonight, something bigger moving like a tidal wave, a wilting bouquet, on fire, I feel a God and devil in this room

Do you resent the air that you inhale, and wait for better like a snake eating its tail? 
We exist in spaces in between, wearing masks like halloween
But I feel something more, something more

I feel alone, but I feel in my bones tonight, something bigger moving like a tidal wave, a wilting bouquet, on fire, I feel a God and devil in this room

I feel alone, but I feel in my bones tonight, something bigger moving like a tidal wave, a wilting bouquet, on fire, I feel a God and devil in this

I Feel a God and Devil in This Room

Lyrics:

I remember your tail lights, and the nondescript conversations, 
Trails of jet engines and walking to my door,
Would you be dead, if I’d said two words more? 

I remember the debris, and your faces lit like a rave,
Patterns of glass reflecting in the crescent moon,
A fine rain dripping down like a wound

And I don’t know what I’d do, if that truck had taken all of you,
I think the moon may disappear
But a fraction of a second kept you here

Well my little brother told me time is stolen,
And the wolves come for everyone,
But I wonder if the wreckage was an omen,
When it’s time, I think I, 
When it's time, I think I 

And I don’t know what I’d do, if that truck had taken all of you,
I think the moon may disappear,
But a fraction of a second,
But a fraction of a second,
Kept you here

Fraction of a Second

Lyrics:
Falling to the ground,
In a landslide,
Swimming in the sound, 
And my hands are tied, 
Everything must go,
It’s an angel in the snow,
And I will never ask for more,

The sparrow song, the spitting venom of a snake,
Coursing through our bodies as we lay awake,
The pages that you wrote are floating on the lake, 
But the arrow of time goes on

But no one ever said there would be more than this,
Nobody ever said there would be more
And no one ever said there would be more than this,
But I feel it turning golden in the fall

Everything must go, it's an angel in the snow,
And I will never ask for more

I’m waiting for the tiny parts to tessellate,
I see my silhouette on cemetery gates,
I’m vacant as the violins reverberate,
But the arrow of time goes on

But no one ever said there would be more than this,
Nobody ever said there would be more
And no one ever said there would be more than this,
But I feel it turning golden in the fall

More Than This

Lyrics:
You left our party, 
The last one to go,
The eclipse was starting,
You were heading out into the undergrowth

I heard that a stranger, 
Found you laid down, 
Blue in the lips and,
Frost upon your clothes, on the edge of town

You were laying on a razor edge a half a mile away as I sat in bed, oh brother of mine, 
Autumn air became a part of you, in the afterglow, looking up into black holes in the sky

Stood over your bed,
Like a newborn, 
The fangs of a cobra,
Laying at the hooves of a fawn

When the sun moved over the crescent moon

You were laying on a razor edge a half a mile away as I sat in bed, oh brother of mine, 
Autumn air became a part of you, in the afterglow, looking up into black holes in the sky

You were laying on a razor edge a half a mile away as I sat in bed, oh brother of mine, 
Autumn air became a part of you, in the afterglow, looking up into black holes in the sky

Black Holes In The Sky

The Will of the River

Uncanny Moon

Moths and Butterflies

My debut album 'In the Balance' is out now - order on vinyl here: https://callum-pitt.myshopify.com/products/in-the-balance-album-vinyl-preorder?ffm=FFM_29ade018d715509eefe16a1ac7d46d2e

Crow

I Feel a God and Devil in This Room (Empty Spaces Version)

Debut single! Listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/0kYqkxYaVLxFCxkI6aKo90
Recorded, mixed and mastered by John Martindale at Blank Studios.
Featuring Gavin Christie (drums) and Jonny Lathbury (piano).

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You'd Better Sell It While You Can

Second single! released 19/05/17 via Kaleidoscope.
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2MhqicchjpgjkE1HSu522W
Recorded, mixed and mastered by John Martindale at Blank Studios.
Featuring Gavin Christie (drums).

Lyrics:
Mind's been drifting in circles for days and, looping pictures of empty bouquets and, running blind for how long I don't know least he's happy

Said I'm pining I know I've got religion, moving with or without recognition, said I'm dragging my head through the mud, least he's happy

Said you go your way, I'll go mine and..
You go your way, I'll go mine and..
Speeding down, speeding down the line

Watching movies she never left her home town, aching after a girl a few doors down, she's been dreaming for fourteen odd years, least she's happy,
Not the wittiest, even the prettiest, dripping soul but not the most forwardest, they'd be hanging on her every word but she's happy

Said you go your way, I'll go mine and..
You go your way, I'll go mine and..
Speeding down, speeding down the line, running out of breath, and calling,

You go your way, I'll go mine and..
You go your way, I'll go mine and..
Tumbling down with your eyes half shut and
You go your way, I'll go mine and..
You go your way, I'll go mine and..
Speeding down, speeding down the line

Itunes/Apple Music

Least He's Happy

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7binVaiX1CoyaDdyGYDBxz?si=TGKfzes-T0iDmWFtzTvcjQ

Ivy growing on my gates, where the murmur emanates, like a walk into a big parade, smothered by the escapades

Early May we heard that tune, and it echoed down the avenue, and the street felt empty most of June, softened faces filtered through

The fear of the distance to the floor, the warmth of a place that you adore, so what are we breathing faster for?

Tell me why, oh why do we evoke this creature fear? Because we're all just rabbits in the headlights here, come on wash away that frightened voice that creeps into your ear, because we're all just rabbits in the headlights here

Throw my mind up to the wind, everyone's the same within, 'cause the smallest thing can break the skin, crack along our fingerprints

The drop of a weight down to the floor, release all the pressure on your jaw, so swim, come and meet me by the shore

Rabbits (Single)

Rabbits

Callum Pitt - Happiness | © 2018 Kaleidoscope
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2fCoh6pSeGZTP2Wr3LaOZF?si=FBs8IR45RgSFpPTtFd5y3g

Also on Apple Music and all other streaming services.

Happiness is weightless and floats up like an ember 
Through the dust clouds, I remember
Feeling like a drop in a stream down to an ocean 
Fighting fading to a ghost, but

Everything will pause and be still 
When the weeds are shooting through the floor 
The flood comes bursting through the door

The mind can be a whirlwind that whips up all the dust
To cloud our minds obscure our view 
Of the love that is around us the warmth of those we look to
I saw dust 'til I saw you, and

Everything will pause and be still 
When the weeds are shooting through the floor 
The flood comes bursting through the door 

The actors are backing out of clear sight 
When happiness fades into the backlight
The threads are in tangles like a fist fight 
Swinging me side to side
Back and forth and back and forth 

Everything will pause and be still 
When the weeds are shooting through the floor
The flood comes bursting through the door

Come on around, clear these dust clouds 
'Cause the days too short to wish away or undersell the words you say

Happiness (Single)

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Happiness

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/46KhzWYIx7epmD2MV8ZArc?si=qsN1__-OT2CFmfOcnAxU9w

So chalk up the minutes comparing the tickets we won in these coastal arcades
You're like some distant murmur that carries me further away from the rousing parades

When the sun is sinking into the floor the threads unwind
The questions are swimming out my mind so slow

Well I've seen people sitting with their teeth all gritted and waiting the whole evening long
Slump with a sigh after most passing by 'cause they just want to talk to someone

There's a warm wind coming, marching along with a big brass band
I'm waving an outstretched aching hand, so slow

Well some spend their time piling bricks up and climbing like we get out of here alive
We search for a meaning before disappearing and hope that our memories survive

I don't know what's coming to sweep up the rug from where I'm stood
And probably wouldn't if I could, oh no

I've been dripping with sweat throwing long silhouettes and not really going far at all
Like feigning a jog with a wild pack of dogs that are slavering after a ball

Well I don't mind losing, only need one to hold onto
'Cause chasing a number just won't do, oh no

Away From The Rousing Parades (Single)

Away From The Rousing Parades

CALLUM PITT - Forgotten Kids
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/340EIMDnnDue4q2c727CGV?si=_HSSDiDEQpWGSejrCV2Mug

The daylight is sinking, his energy's slinking 
Slowly down the hillside
The size of the great divide

He's reaching for guidance, a government silence,
Like a roll of the eyes 
Out of sight and out of the mind

The packed food banks and hostel rooms 
A few hundred metres from a young tycoon
So lay down your flowers for the bloom
And the chorus of birds that

Follow me when I don't stand so tall
While these forgotten kids sleep on the floor

He's turfed off of shop fronts
It feels like a manhunt
The spikes on the pavement in the gentrified side of town

Says I'm just looking for traces of familiar faces
'cause it feels like I'm fading 
To a fixture in the background

You're disappearing out of view
Through the gaps of wealth and greed and misfortune
So lay down your flowers for the bloom

Follow me when I don't stand so tall
While these forgotten kids sleep on the floor

We all just wanna make the most of these people we adore 
Before it's all just in our heads

Follow me when I don't stand so tall
While these forgotten kids sleep on the floor
We all just wanna make the most of these people we adore 
Before it's all just in our heads, before it's all just in our heads

© 2019 Kaleidoscope

Forgotten Kids

CALLUM PITT - Here If You Need | RELEASE DATE: 10th May 2019
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5HTC1NePHQDA8M4YoTK7my?si=co1AnIoPRKi801FPs1Kq9g

Lyrics:
Don't go to sleep tonight with thoughts that fester in your head
Like a bottle shaken up and down will fizz until you twist the lid
The poisoned reveries which germinate and spit out seeds 
Seem better if they're brought to light, I'm here if you need

Forget about being a man it's such an ancient concept 
We buried signs of weakness and their roots spread as we slept
Well if ever you feel cheap and old within this sea of greed 
Take some time for yourself and I'll be here if you need 
Be here if you need.

Can we go and waste some time? 
Can we go and waste some time?

Under these dim and dirty lights 
Self-worth can slip right out of sight
Don't lose yourself in this fist fight 
I'll hang on your every word tonight

I'll crack under this pressure that I pile upon myself 
It's not a sign of weakness if you turn and ask for help 
You said I feel more powerless with everything I read 
Feel passive and a disconnect I'm here if you need

I hear the hardened words of people drowning refuse help
But it feels good to open up so take care of yourself
'Cause we're swept aside by cannonballers picking up their speed 
If you are feeling beaten down I'm here if you need 
I'm here if you need

Can we go and waste some time? 
Can we go and waste some time?

Under these dim and dirty lights
Self-worth can slip right out of sight 
Don't lose yourself in this fist fight
I'll hang on your every word tonight

© 2019 Kaleidoscope

Poisoned Reveries EP

Here If You Need

CALLUM PITT - Knocked The Wind Right Out Of Me
© 2019 Kaleidoscope

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4lFvHFFnumuyMlovR6BVvx?si=6NJxBb-PRkSc6klLmQQI_g

Knocked The Wind Right Out Of Me

CALLUM PITT - Slow My Heart Rate Down
© 2019 Kaleidoscope
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZK2Qzj0mVXkfg6JgdrI3N?si=-I76--7gQL-pM6ArCUKz2A

Lyrics:
By, by the time, I'm washed away, and drifting at the mercy of the tide nothing can hurt me but I'm shaking, slowly shaking, slow my heart down

Dust graced the air, as the roof crumbled down, it's creeping through your hair like wind in thin September air and glass below me, cracks so slowly

Come be here now, slow my heart down, stop it rolling, snowballing
Give me composure now, slow my heart down, blood is racing, through my veins

Slow My Heart Rate Down

CALLUM PITT - L. Lane
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0WbFjBtatUgEpr9NElFcTK?si=3rpvB5AmSvqKUeGICbv0Lg

Lyrics:
The edges of the curtains were golden and blurred 
Lay and watched the shadows move like silence falling on a church 
This fatigue seems to be spreading out like wildfire through my bones 
'Cause I can't see straight in this thickening haze of resentment to these days that leave us alone

Words don't pierce this ringing in my ears
I'm just watching as these minutes disappear

I walked about an hour as the light went down 
'cause I was trying to get some air while you were trying not to drown 
And I'm painfully aware life can be plucked out as a hair 
And I'm somewhere else almost anywhere and neglecting time that I won't get back oh no

Words don't pierce this ringing in my ears
I'm just watching as these minutes disappear

The chorus of the birds are bringing in the light 
And I'm shuffling down L. Lane tonight
And I've been dreaming of the day, oh for now it's out of sight 
Shuffling down L. Lane tonight

Words don't pierce this ringing in my ears
I'm just watching as these minutes disappear

The chorus of the birds are bringing in the light 
And I'm shuffling down L. Lane tonight
And I've been dreaming of the day oh for now it's out of sight 
Shuffling down L. Lane tonight

© 2019 Humble Angel Records

L. Lane

OUT OF THE TREES - Callum Pitt

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5VezpSL8umaaQ20RCSz46w?si=ujPbbi7yRomK6FWzr13iPg

We sit by the monuments until they're covered in white
The hope is what takes us out of the trees and into the light
Get lost in the temporary pain upon our skin
Clutching for rest, we open our chest, let it all in

My heartbeats are numbered, I feel for a comfort that's out of my hands
Or fall like a swallow, my chest feeling hollow without any plans

And if we go straight into the dirt, I don't mind, I don't mind
We're all looking for a way not to hurt, or something aligned

Out of the trees and into the light, divided we wait, divided we fight
Out of the trees and into the light, into the light

We go when we're broken, and all the dead oceans move further away 
They're vacant and surging, I watch through the curtains and see out the days
And stare into dark pink skies of nothing until it all fades
I want to have comfort, I want to mean something, I want to have faith

And if we go straight into the dirt, I don't mind, I don't mind
We're all looking for a way not to hurt, or something aligned

Out of the trees and into the light, divided we wait, divided we fight
Out of the trees and into the light, into the light

© 2020 Humble Angel Records

Out of the Trees

CALLUM PITT - Fault Lines

Seems like all you do is fight and see the world in black and white
Spinning truths like you can move our minds as wind upon a kite
And we feel so small, like we can’t stem the tide at all
As papers sow the seeds of anger, setting off like a snowball

Well we got lies making divides from these soothsayers
Setting fires between two sides and I feel jaded
I push my head above the water
Pull away from the disorder, as the tides polarise

We got fault lines running through our bones
The division grows and leaves these empty holes

We rise and fall under the weight of words that fan the flames of hatred
When we demonise, we form a mind that will not be persuaded
Well I am so small and I can’t change too much at all
I’ve got no answers to these fractures, other than breaking these walls

Well we got lies making divides from these soothsayers
Setting fires between two sides and I feel jaded
I push my head above the water
Pull away from the disorder, as the tides polarise

We got fault lines running through our bones
The division grows and leaves these empty holes

© 2020 Humble Angel Records

Fault Lines

Callum Pitt - Ghost 

Silent like a ghost, don’t wanna be seen, I run
Like a boy near fire, dripping with gasoline
And the sun dropped behind your house as I pushed through the gate
And quickly up the thin staircase
Like I was running late

Nothing looked like it was different, you were smiling, it was bright
So much so I could imagine nothing changed and you were alright
While I wanted to believe it, I was holding you so tight

In and out of time, I feel it beating, the sun
April’s brief relief, relief is fleeting
It hurts to watch you fade this way, I’m moving to acceptance day
Lost in the fresh bouquets

We were walking down your lane, by a park we went when I was eight
It took two or three times long, the cars were lost within the birdsong
And I’ll remember all the best parts and I’ll hold them within my chest
Like the words of a song echo on and on

Nothing looked like it was different, you were smiling, it was bright
So much so I could imagine it was June and you were alright
While I wanted to believe it, sat up knowing on the night you had to go
You had to go, you had to go

Nothing looked like it was different, you were smiling, it was bright
So much so I could imagine it was June and you were alright
While I wanted to believe it, sat up knowing on the night

©℗ 2020 Humble Angel Records

Ghost

Lyrics:

The colours were running from all this distortion in my head
The speakers were humming, circling feedback in our ears
Swept by the current further until the choruses blurred and your shout was a murmur
Felt your tug away from the crowd ‘cause, everything always seems so loud

While we’re drifting in this sea of noise
Flooding in our ears and our eyes

Out of the water, these quarries feel smaller
My legs won’t seize up like a deer in the headlights

These eyes are reflectors, old movie projectors
They blur my perceptions, the waves of affection
Had drained all my colour, the previous summer, they painted a picture of hallways and wicker

So drag my body off the stage
‘Cause nothing ever seems to change

While we’re drifting in this sea of noise
Flooding in our ears and our eyes

Sea Of Noise

Inspired by the rawness and honesty of artists like Elliott Smith, Julien Baker, Adrianne Lenker & Sufjan Stevens, Callum Pitt imbues his indie-folk with a grand, orchestral, chamber pop sensibility plus an alt-rock edge. Despite using music often as a canvas to openly discuss depression & anxiety, as well as political unrest, Callum still manages to imprint feelings of optimism and unity - alongside genuine warmth and honesty - throughout his songs.

28-year-old Pitt has been working on his craft for over a decade, beginning as a teenager in the Newcastle pub scene and gradually refining his thoughtful, poetic songwriting voice, leading to festivals such as The Great Escape, Deer Shed & The Long Road and support slots with artists including Donovan Woods, Adia Victoria, Jordan Mackampa and Cattle & Cane. Callum’s development as a songwriter has been recognised with accolades such as ‘Alan Hull Award’ for songwriters in 2019 & the ‘Fender Player Plus’ competition in 2022. As a result of his tireless work ethic, as an independent artist, Callum has amassed over 6 million streams, with releases landing on Spotify’s coveted ‘New Music Friday’ playlists 17 times & received radio play from BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music. 

Meanwhile, he’s studying a masters in Occupational Therapy, and has worked with children, young people & adults with disabilities through various outlets, including therapeutic music work, giving him a new perspective on the cathartic and unifying power of music.

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