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The Witnessing

by Rebel Kites

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1.
The Witnessing DADF#AD Capo 2 Nobody's listening Fast crowds are thickening White velvet skies are slowly vanishing As the masses lay their hands all over me Down to the witnessing, we go Girls gather for the show Appointed sons are piling sticks and stones, I recollect my tattooed skin and bones For you Judge me for my innocent young eyes, my treasons I got no truths to hide, no! The earth has issued us these savages of men, Let's start this civilization again Throw up all the whispers that you heard today Build the fallen branches high, mighty high, and say "I tried to escape but I'm here to stay" Faded-out faces that I used to know Dizzy depths way above spinning echoes Round this endless judgement day They brought me down here where the sea does weep And is coughing up a red moon, a black star, Sweep me into the belly of the lone and hungry night Tangled at my ankles in an unfair trial I can hear Vivaldi in the sky now Sweetest strings for the end as it blooms a mile away
2.
Oh-My-O 05:01
Oh-My-O CGDGAD Capo 2 Somehow I have woken as far off you land It's easy, easy to let these strange notions of fate take my hand As you're wandering you fly, O, with one not I Oh My O Oh My O you've given away all your things You leave me one last possession for safe keep In the cold night it's not important but some day it just might be Oh My O They say the rain will come and they ask, what will I do So please love, tell them that I'll bear my teeth for you Come into the trees we'll be, O, animals soon Oh My O
3.
Atlas Sky 06:17
Atlas Sky CGDGAD Capo 2 Like a devil in a daydream Earth does shake my ears and eyes I'll be waking soon Fever curses in the night Lights ascending, gives me something to defy Sun defeats us, waking in the Atlas Sky Like a newborn in a nightmare Know my number's coming round Watch the crimson moon Rising from the dirty ground Darkness fading, earth does shake our ears and eyes Sun defeats us, tangled in the Atlas Sky
4.
Now that you're gone you are close Thousands of long days all driftin' like smoke Escapin' like fireflies Earthly strangers did take my hand through dark, dark lands Miles from the Dust City drone, Two various humans, together alone Alone on the vast plain I wish our roots could tangle, dear Know that I'd ever leave here Love is a cycle that spins while we sleep Sleep tight love, carousel's pickin' up speed Circles, spinning again Black seas, bought from the river's end So, downstream, I do descend And there's no bolder blue For seldom-believers who've found something true to be A trick of the dusk-light And if our roots could tangle, dear 'Know that I'd never leave here Circles, spinning again Black seas, bought from the river's end So, downstream, I do descend Circles, spinning again and again

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A journey from the intimate to the epic, from the hushed to the cinematic, recorded in the warehouses of East London and the Norfolk Coast.

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released April 11, 2015

The Witnessing EP

Produced and Engineered by Alex Story
Mixed by Ashley Krajewski
Additional Mixing by Alex Story
Additional Production by Iain Lowery
Mastered at Metropolis by John Davis
Artwork by Simon Fowler / Cataract Publishing
Liner Note design by Alex Story
Band photography by Stephanie Galea Photography

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Rebel Kites London, UK

“Lovingly crafted, rich cinematic folk-scapes, The Witnessing is an impressive debut”
– Iain Lowery (John Peel Archive)

"Rebel Kites is a fitting name for a band that fell out of the sky and hit me on the head"
– Sean O'Leary (Indie Shuffle)

"The production certainly combines to bring everything to the fore with a seemingly effortless ease"
– Jim Craigen (BBC Fresh on the Net)
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