Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Winterblind

Written, Arranged, Performed and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Visitation

Rubber Rock

WaterColour

Black Hearted (Valentine's Day)

Tropism

For Shadows And Paradise

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Oh to be small enough to defeat ugliness
A journey of the heart
where the heart begins in a chest

And the moment pairs with everything around
Emotion, sight, relation, touch, scent, and sound

To lose friends in the wake of their own grief
Neither anger, nor mourning
nor relief

Washes over an iron heart
Made sober to the public
for the sake of life as art

Sand rushing through my fists
I weep in recognition
of a connection I do not own
but know, but wish
In my mind a perfect recreation

Love is misdirection
is the promise of, but not getting everything
Is melancholy melodies,
and beautiful voices and gorgeous words

Of haunted beautiful faces that sing
I feel sometimes, as if I'm the only one who's heard

The grace of the sea
is looking after me
I know the hurt
and I long for the serenity
Dec. 27, 2023

Grace Of The Sea

Ain't Got Time For School

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics for Displacement:
Oh, change from sea to tsunami
When gratitude ingratiates me

Tanizaki becomes aware
The connections everywhere
Now, hear, him, speak

Chains are divine
Laymen know me well
The age in white hair
Ink in the well

Oh my love
know me well
Satellite
know me well

Now you're awake
It's been two long years
The reason I make
Emotion, and tears
I need to break the egg, the shell
The world as well

Oh, change from sea to tsunami
I like what irritates me

The boat that holds Tanizaki
Has broken anchor
He responds with gratitude
and beautiful anger
Gorgeous anger
Useful anger
Beautiful anger
      April 8, 2024

Displacement

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
Desert death
No glass no mirror
Reflect the heat, but not the Sun
Barely alive and barely breathing
What was the prize when the West was won?

Think you're happy
and I think you're great
No trees no shade
but I can wait
Cause love's a shadow 
and I know
what it is I need to create

No place to hide 
but underneath the water
I must be tired but
I still want her

He doesn't dress like other men
Not even a little
So I wonder, then
What's in the middle?

I guess you're happy 
and I think that's great
No answers yet but
I can wait
Cause love's a shadow
and I know
what it is I need to create

Great people
and great advice
But my mind
is a sieve not a vice
And my neck
is ready to split and choke
Avec all the meanings I evoke
(all the dreams and thoughts)

That makes you happy 
I think that's great
Pure, innocence
I cannot wait
Cause love's a shadow 
and a color
I know
A shade
That I need to create
            March 19, 2024

Shade Of Love

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan
Thank you to Hiroshi Yoshimura :)

Sex Pt. 1

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

I must have said something wrong
Head still in bow
Still I don't belong

Scent of coffee and sugar
Heavy on your hands
Leaving stains like a birthmark
Over the plains of your heart
Over blood red lands

Their panic
Their pain
Their hatred 
All directed toward the omphalos
But the bombs are without hostility
If necessary
I will continue on forever
Mr. Tree, kaisen
Toward the mountain
Until everyone is healed, restored
Until everything is better

With my heart in the land 
Outpouring, like sand
Restored
Oh lord

Oribe from Momoyama and Rikyu
400 years old at least
Head still in bow
Still in my heart is the beast


Tea Ceremony

Down

Written, Arranged, Performed and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
Fox Steps... Walk down on me

Simple Fascination
Walk down on me
Palace life
Program the man for me
Who is ever wandering the street
Alleyways and loss of pigment
The bars are all we walk along
Barred in as all in need

Whose legs walking over me?
Down in damp
Presence of family and piece of mind
Working over new age person
Homely and ever degrading
Left out with the mold crown

Seeking out the telegrams of World War Two grandfather
Getting less and less like his son
Ever wandering the cobblestones
Gas lamp lit
Always Chinese lanterns in the clouds
And simple fascination

Walk down on me
I stole from whom I don't even know
Damp shining with past
Good and bad memories

I walk across cattails and stones
Marshes growing into forest
For whom I know not
Waves of wind and soil wash down on me and feet
Whose legs walking over me?

Fox runs lithely with broken leg
I dream to them to tell tales
Running this side mountain path
War passed through here
Soldiers and tunnels and faces
I do not know

Walking on me
Tiny steps
Like paper pads and concepts
What you've done to me
They also know
That for me
The marsh will grow
Like simple fascination
Take a photo
Step
And take
What you owe
        May 23, 2024

Fox Steps

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Solo Guitar Composition. 

For Vini Reilly

Taking Fire

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

A composition using only a single drum as the instrument in an effort to see if emotions and feeling can be transmitted through rhythm and tempo alone.

Tranquilizer Ethnoecology

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Playing and doing exactly what I want when I want with no preconceived planning or practice - Free Rock

Clubbed to death
by ambient tomes
Weak living
through metronomes

I want to see
the way to fall out
To be taken in
and trust the scout

The Sun unsheathed
and beneath the shadow
a web unweaved

Clubbed to death
through the thick of the green
Through fire and failure
let me grow weak and lean
May 17, 2024

Clubbed To Death

#StartTheNextWave - New Wave. Post Punk. Art Pop Experimentor. New songs always in the works. Stay tuned.

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