Death By Piano -
songs written by KALEN & Tom Marsh

1. Vow
2. Trust
3. Too Soon
4. Disco Wrecking Ball
5. Pandora
6. Promise

PROMISE lyrics:

I made a promise that I plan to keep
I made a promise that I plan to keep
And I know the tides will ebb and flow
I will surf the seas that be
I’ll move towards you just when I want to retreat 
  
I find that when the stars are fading
There's a different day worth waking
Another kind of road
One that we’re not just trekking 
Blind to all our wreckage
for the view and for the gold 
Only doing what we’re told
And when the bows are breaking 
And the naked branch is shaking
I’ll adjust my hold   

I made a promise that I plan to keep
I made a promise that I plan to keep
And I know it’s not just up to me
But I’ll do my part to see   
That love is something that I tend to in you 
something I intend for me
I’ll carry with my bones a breeze 
And my breath a smile 
for you and me
for you and me

I made a promise that I plan to keep
I made a promise that I plan to keep

Promise

Pandora

Death By Piano -
songs written by KALEN & Tom Marsh

1. Vow
2. Trust
3. Too Soon
4. Disco Wrecking Ball
5. Pandora
6. Promise

TOO SOON lyrics: 

Sometime not so many seasons from today
We’ll be saying goodbye
On some waters edge 

With lapping waves and bowing reeds 
I imagine that I wouldn’t cry
To see you turn from father back to sky

Don’t leave too soon
I need more than memories of you

You asked me if you would go tomorrow were we good?
Was nothing left unsaid?
Do I know that I am loved?

The breeze was soft, your hope was real
I nodded yes but couldn’t feel 
We still have futures left to heal
Don’t vanish yet, that’s not the deal

Don’t leave too soon
I need more than memories of you
Don’t leave too soon
And make me find you in the moonlight

You hung back at the waterfall
Dad, come along - why do you stall?
You said you were taking a picture with your mind
I stayed behind, stood beside you, only four feet tall, tried my best to capture it all
Including being beside you  

(The breeze was soft, your hope was real)
Just being beside you
(I nodded yes but couldn’t feel) 

Don’t leave too soon
I need more than memories of you
Don’t leave too soon
And make me find you in the moonlight

Too Soon

Death By Piano -
songs written by KALEN & Tom Marsh

1. Vow
2. Trust
3. Too Soon
4. Disco Wrecking Ball
5. Pandora
6. Promise

TRUST lyrics:

I’ve been looking out for you
Between the mountain tops
Between the poppies and the sea
That bow on bended knee
And I forget you’ve always been
Dancing in the wind
Dulling all the sharpest shoulds 
and cradling the seed

I’ve been looking out for you
Cerulean perfume
Some armor  and some lace
A fragrant flower by your face
I forget that I am you 
I forget that I’m the sculpture too    
And that every dream that lives in me 
Is something that world might see     

Trust
It’s an act of faith 
Have you 
    ever willed the world to change?

I’ve been looking out for you
behind tired eyes 
shaded by a lens 
that’s rosy like the ends
Of my fingertips and knees
Bloodied and bereaved 
There’s something that I’m marching towards
Up rivers I have yet to ford 

I’ve been looking out for you
The whisper from within
indebted to the wind 
that carries on its wings
a will that’s wont to wane 
The world will hurl the sand and pain
My heart is hard at work crafting a pearl born from the grain

Trust

Death By Piano -
songs written by KALEN & Tom Marsh

1. Vow
2. Trust
3. Too Soon
4. Disco Wrecking Ball
5. Pandora
6. Promise

VOW lyrics: 

Going back in time to a world before I knew you  
To a past whose future grew you
To a different land
I know I used to be me
But my memory seems faulty 
Was I just a friend 
I lost along the way

You have changed me
Love that makes me
Vow

Humbled by your presence
I levitate while landing
It must mean I love myself to let me love you so
I’ve shed a thousand skins
This heart it keeps on growing
And to think of what tomorrow will bring

You have changed me
Love that makes me
Vow

Vow (Instrumental)

Trust (Instrumental)

Too Soon (Instrumental)

Promise (Instrumental)

Pandora (Instrumental)

Disco Wrecking Ball (Instrumental)

Countdown

Countdown (Instrumental)

Caves

Bender (Countdown EP)

Torches (Countdown EP)

Countdown (Countdown EP)

Copyright 1973 Dolly Parton. 
cover by Death By Piano.

Jolene (Countdown EP)

Caves (Countdown EP)

Original version by Dolly Parton.
Copyright 2018 Death By Piano.

Jolene

Bender

Torches

Original composition by Dolly Parton.
Covered by Death By Piano.
Remixed by Dirtier Blonde.

Jolene (Dirtier Blonde Remix)

Bender (No Surrender Remix)

Torches (BITWVLF Remix)

Countdown (Johnny Butler Remix ft. Kassa Overall)

Song written and produced by Death By Piano
Additional production by No Surrender
Mixed by Abe Seiferth
Mastered by Sean Marquand
Hi4Head Records
Photograph by Natalie Conn

NEWER LIGHT

Take me to a city where the streets are bright. 
Want to feel your touch, want to know your light. 
Now I’m full of pain I don’t know what’s right. 
Pull me by my collar into newer light (newer light)

Take me to a city where the streets are gold.
Want to feel your touch want to know your soul. 
Pull me by my collar into newer light (newer light). 

I’m afraid of love
Touch me and I turn away 
Come to me again
Pull me into newer light
Newer light, newer light
Newer light

I’m afraid of love 
Touch me and I turn away
Come to me again 
Pull me into newer light
Newer light, newer light
Newer light

Newer Light (Death By Piano)

Death By Piano is a Brooklyn-based electronic project mixes the sounds of its native borough -- electronic beats, distinctive analog instrumentation, and a thick brew of strings and synths -- sifted through a reconstructive filter, centered by KALEN’s lush and expansive voice. DBP “seems to be changing faces between darkwave and shoegaze” (All Things Go). Singer/songwriter/keyboardist KALEN leads DBP in collaboration with some of Brooklyn’s best producers: No Surrender, Abe Seiferth, Greywolf, Tom Marsh, and Eric Zeiler. Frequent visual collaborators include Dan Mandell, Robert Lester, Lena Rudnick, & Cameron Whitehouse. DBP is a staple of the NY underground music scene but has also brought it's dark and dreamy live show to stages such as Rough Trade NYC and Elsewhere. DBP's first EP, Countdown, and 2020's trilogy of singles were released on H4H records.

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