Patricia EP

1. Guard & Prisoner feat. Omotola
2. Wildfire
3. Elective Ultrasound
4. Black Canyon City
5. Patricia

Jaws of Love. is Kelcey Ayer (of Local Natives)

all songs written and performed by Kelcey Ayer except where noted

produced by Kelcey Ayer & Danny Reisch
mixed by Danny Reisch
mastered by Max Lorenzen
engineered by Danny Reisch & Kelcey Ayer
engineering assistance by Max Lorenzen 
additional engineering by Michael Harris on track 4
additional engineering by Chris Sorem on track 5

featured vocals by Omotola on track 1
additional writing by Ryan Hahn & Taylor Rice on track 1
strings by Daniel Hart on tracks 1 & 4
saxophone & flute by Matthew DeMerritt on track 4
additional production by Sounds Like You on track 1
additional production by Jamie Lidell on track 2
additional production by S1 on track 2
additional production by COMBAT! on track 2

tracks 1, 2 & 4 recorded at Good Danny’s in Lockhart, TX, Honeymoon Suite in Los Angeles, CA & 64 Sound in Los Angeles, CA throughout 2021
track 3 recorded at Seizure Salad in Los Angeles, CA in October 2021
track 5 recorded at Nest Recorders in Los Angeles, CA in March 2022

Patricia EP

Patricia
I dreamed our old hallway
carried your voice 
into the kitchen 

11
years have passed and yet still
each morning sun 
takes you away from me

living, it dies
dreaming, alive

if heaven 
is a real place 
it’s where I sleep 
and you are awake

Patricia


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Jaws of Love. is Kelcey Ayer

written and performed by Kelcey Ayer
produced by Kelcey Ayer & Danny Reisch
mixed by Danny Reisch
engineered by Chris Sorem & Kelcey Ayer
mastered by Max Lorenzen

Patricia

freedom of the land 
all roads are felt by my feet
from Arizona fled
on the way passed Black Canyon City 

I’m not there 
but I am

where are you then
if not there
if not when 
do I alone get wherever I am?

somehow the noises
that I once knew
familiar are now changing 
and so I fumble
to make out the sound
is it singing or is it suffering?

my mind’s back on Black Canyon City

I’m not them 
but I am

who are you then
if not them
if not sent
if not rising
whenever you land

and so I wander
down to the docks
to study the bay where I grew up
that day the whitecaps
we’re few and far
and the light I felt off the water
so calm

I will never know a life that’s 
less than in someone else’s eyes
I’ll never know a flower grown to hide
I’ll never know a day without sunlight
I’ll never know what’s always on your mind
where there is less white, there is more love, there is more light

I will never know a life that’s 
less than in someone else’s eyes
I’ll never know a day without sunlight
I’ll never know a flower grown to hide
I hope you know you’re always on my mind
where there is less white, there is more love, there is more light

Black Canyon City

Elective Ultrasound

I don’t have to explain anything to you
used to be the only one here, now there’s two
and while you’re no match for my nightly lotto wins
I can’t stop having the same dream

there is a wildfire
and our sparks rise
hell and heaven combine
and we evaporate into the night

12 thousand sunsets watched with one eye closed
I wasn’t born confused, I learned 
I wish my father thought more of you with our mother gone 
I wish my father was the only one

there is a wildfire
and we both die
hell and heaven’s a lie
and we evaporate into a cloud

Wildfire

we were waking up as the sun went down
pockets empty, paid the Federales off
who what where when and why
I didn’t know
doing everything I can
so that I don't

I was the first to see the driver lose control
we bake our bodies in the sand as a ritual
thread through a needle’s eye
tailored to fit
to want for nothing and ask
is this all there is?

sky is guard and sun is prisoner

paint me in the corner and lock the key
just promise from time to time you’ll think of me
and every day that passes
priced high or free
consider they’re all signed, best wishes
a gift from me
they’re all gifts from me

sky is guard and sun is prisoner

I don’t know why I go anywhere
I don’t know why I deserve anything

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Jaws of Love. is Kelcey Ayer (of Local Natives)

all instruments played by Kelcey Ayer*
produced by Kelcey Ayer & Danny Reisch
mixed by Danny Reisch
engineered by Danny Reisch & Kelcey Ayer
engineering assistance by Max Lorenzen
mastered by Max Lorenzen

featured vocals by Omotola
additional production by Sounds Like You
*strings by Daniel Hart