Name: War by gNart
Duration: 2 min 58 s
Description: Featuring Ron Legault on drums, Garth Kien on bass, Grant Kien on guitar and vocals. Hakken Krak gigged and recorded in Toronto around 1993-94, then band members went their separate ways. The tracks here were recorded live from the floor to DAT, in a forgotten studio that was located at Ossington and Dundas.

Featuring Ron Legault on drums, Garth Kien on bass, Grant Kien on guitar and vocals. Hakken Krak gigged and recorded in Toronto around 1993-94, then band members went their separate ways. The tracks here were recorded live from the floor to DAT, in a forgotten studio that was located at Ossington and Dundas.

Happy Birthday Dad! I love you!

by Grant Kien (2014)

King Edward Kien

Jay Mata - 12 19 15, 11.10 PM

From the 1989 EP No Records

Greg Hargarten (Drums), Dean Hrytsak (Bass), Grant Eddy Kien (Vocals, Guitar)

Recorded at Audio Art in Saskatoon

(c) 1989 G. E. Kien

When there's a feeling rising deep within the heart
All our promises turn to gold
When we understand there is something real
Suddenly we feel so old
When the truth finally leaves its mark
Insanity takes control
When the lonely man starts to sing his song
All his memories seem so cold

They seem so cold

In our sanctuary of happiness
So often lost, so often found
We never stop to think, we just start to cry
We drag our spirits down
When we try to escape the walls
There is no place left to go
When the lonely man starts to sing his song
Al his memories seem so cold

They seem so cold

** I wrote this song when I was about 18 or 19. It is about fueling our fantasies of what we want our life to be like (all our promises turn to gold), only to be confronted by the understanding that reality has its own trajectory.  We lose our innocence, feel isolated and confused, still wanting to dwell in our perfect fantasies, yet thrust into a lonely and uncaring reality, where we mourn the dreams we've lost and our memories of them become cold. Meanwhile, we don't yet know how to move on and escape the mental barriers we created for ourselves.

No Records

So Cold

From the 1989 EP No Records.

Greg Hargarten (Drums), Dean Hrytsak (Bass), Grant Eddy Kien (Vocals, Guitar)

Recorded at Audio Art in Saskatoon

(c) 1989 G. E. Kien

Perpetual Walls

Title comes from a mis-heard lyric from Genesis's album "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway."

War

gNart

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