I deleted this one earlier this year for whatever reason. But It's here to stay now.

Well it's a dud, caught in the middle of I know you should
You said you would, not counting stitches at the end of it
And there you go, there you go
It's just for show, it's just for show
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And if I say tomorrow, I'm burning down a bridge
You see the flames of sorrow and breathe the ashes
Cause' it's a dud, ah held on when you knew you could
You lost your foot, ah and fell from where you stood
From where you stood
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Well, in a nutshell, you're everything I thought you were
And standing sun, toss it in and let it burn
And there you go, there you go
It's just for show, it's just for show
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And if I say tomorrow, I'm burning down a bridge
You see the flames of sorrow and breathe the ashes
Cause' it's a dud, ah held on when you knew you could
You lost your foot, ah and fell from where you stood
From where you stood

Counting Stitches

It All Comes Natural

Adventure of your life
Don’t miss the starting date
(They say, they say)
The journey of a lifetime
Enroll to the program
They say

I want to be part of this program
But it’s a one-way ticket
If I leave, it will be forever
They say the stars hold our fate
In the silence of space, we contemplate
Leaving Earth, a new beginning

One way ticket to Mars
Leaving behind our dying planet (Leaving)
One way ticket to Mars (Leaving)
Hear the deep call of the red planet

To explore new worlds, our hearts inclined
But it’s not easy to decide
Can we really make Mars our new home?

One way ticket to Mars
Leaving behind our dying planet (Leaving)
One way ticket to Mars (Leaving)
Hear the deep call of the red planet

(Leaving, Leaving, Leaving)

Why did we destroy our planet
In the solar system she is our mother
It’s a shame, if we have to leave her

One way ticket to Mars (Leaving)
Leaving behind our dying planet (Leaving)
One way ticket to Mars (Leaving)
Hear the deep call of the red planet

(Repeat)

One Way Ticket

The second side of the new Double A-Side single from the forthcoming "Songs for the Swung".

Kenton Hall: Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Chris Ilett: Guitars
Brett Richardson: Bass
Mark Haynes: Drums, Percussion
Egor Remmer - Trombone
Lev Borovskyi - Trumpet

https://kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com/

Good At What I Do

90's inspired hard rock written, produced and recorded in Metro Detroit.

Lyrics:
Can't find the aptitude and leave it all behind. But then again behind is where I thrive.
Pushing back on what we know. Let's pack it up, it's time to go.

And cloistered hope has gone away. Your storied past just fails to blow my mind.
Bruise your soul one last time. I'm giving up and that's just fine.
I'm going on a ride.

Compensation grifts, like stealing from yourself. Never mind it's always someone else.
Don't rely on what you see. Just grab your things, its time to leave.

And cloistered hope has gone away. Your storied past just fails to blow my mind.
Bruise you soul one last time. I'm giving up and that's just fine, I'm going on that ride today!

And we're rolling. Got me rolling. Now we're rolling in despair.

And cloistered hope has gone away. Your storied past just fails to blow my mind.
Broken soul has come to play. I'm giving up and that's Ok, I'm going on that ride today!

That Ride (remix)

Bled Dry

Touch The Sky

This song started about 8 years ago as the acoustic guitar part you hear in the background. It had sort of a Spanish carnival feel to me. But I struggled to come up with anything else for it, so it sat on the shelf. I dug it back out a few months ago and things started to fall better into place. Like most songs I create, the end product is very little like it started. But that is one of the beautiful things about music. It morphs and flows, taking energy and giving back.  Available on streaming platforms on 12/31/24.

Age & Rust

90's inspired Hard Rock made in Detroit.

Who's to say you find a way to hold us back again.
The lesson keeps us so alive, just like the living dead.
Can't stop the speculation.....bonafide.
Running out of sound again, losing just in time.

Cold rejection an unfamiliar song. The art of being wrong.
It's Called projection. You tell me to be strong. The art of being wrong.

Cast aside the human try, holding on to Psalms you don't abide.
Fugitives placed on a train, broken down annihilation, forget the baggage claim.

Cold rejection an unfamiliar song. The art of being wrong.
It's Called projection. You tell me to be strong. The art of being wrong.
I'm tired to hear your wrong again.

Why stand forty stories tall. Head check you're not a hero.
Pages from a manuscript. Plain and clear you didn't read at all.
Head check you're not a hero.
When it comes to devastation, I guess we've scene it all. 
Time to watch it fall.

The Art of Being Wrong

From the forthcoming album 'Songs for the Swung' - https://kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-the-swung

Heart Enough

Drunk every morning sun's light tears my eyes

Canadian songwriter, actor and author, adrift in the UK.

Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures is the solo project (with very necessary guests) of Kenton Hall - Canadian songwriter, author and film director, formerly of the band ist. He is also the author of Bisection, a comic memoir of living and parenting with bipolar disorder, the writer/director of the feature film "A Dozen Summers" and co-wrote the 10-Part Audible drama Getting Better, starring Rhod Gilbert, Kathryn Drysdale, Neve McIntosh and Mark Gatiss.

Monkey Basket is a music and film label, responsible for ist's acclaimed Toothpick Bridge, the feature film "A Dozen Summers" (now streaming on Netflix) and the three-part Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures release for 2022: The album Idiopath, the companion album Omnipath (all 36 songs from the Idiopath sessions reinterpreted by other artists) due for release late 2022 and Videopath, a feature-length music video anthology which will launch in 2023.

Good At What I Do

Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures

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