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Expectation

from Lookout by Kaley Lane Eaton

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When I count all the table’s rings
And the cracks in the sheen
It tells me if I’m lost
Or if this is all a dream.

I don’t think it’s meant for me,
That suburban domesticity;
Because there is way too much to lose if
I’ve got what I need.

I know my plans will backfire
As soon as I acquire a single family home
and a 9-5 to define me

The men don’t understand
That this lot is made of sand.
Forged between volcanoes
And someone else’s land.

Every stake in the ground
And the old hearth the plumber found
Can vanish in an instant
If we walk too loud

Because the cancer is waiting
It lives inside my cells and it watches me pretend
That i’ll see the end
Of the century.

CHORUS 1
Is this love,
To imagine tragedy
Because it can’t be this good?

Cut me off
From my childhood ecstasy
I’d forget if I could
Just to be free
Of precedent
And de-program
My expectations

VERSE 2
I told you you’d lose the trail
But the markers never fail
To show how far you’ve strayed
And how much will (it will take to)..

Walk to the other side
Where the old growth still survives.
Here just dying thistles
And it’s too hot to cry.

And the map won’t save you.
It only shows the roads
And the path we left behind
Can we find our way back
To the table?

CHORUS 2
Is this life,
Intermissions and dramas
That last all night?

Wake me up
From my childhood trauma
The wrongs that feel right

Is this life,
Intermissions and dramas
That last all night?

Wake me up
From my childhood trauma
The wrongs that feel right

And free
Of intervention.
Should I defy
Expectation?

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from Lookout, released March 15, 2024

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Kaley Lane Eaton Seattle, Washington

Avante-garde classical composer? Freak-folk singer-songwriter? Postmodern jazz interloper?
For artists like Kaley Lane Eaton who paint outside the lines, there are seemingly endless boxes to check, but few name-brand comparisons. Joni Mitchell, Björk, Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson. Eaton’s “disconcertingly lovely” (Seattle Weekly) compositions are “unconfined by genres” (V13 Media). ... more

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