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Waterfall

by Kito Peters

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1.
Rush 03:18
Rush can’t wait til we get here it’s sure gonna change the future might redeem us our world rearrange light danced down the river the endless rush of now we would sanctify each breath if only we knew how sometimes we seem closer then others far away they said it will come to pass waiting on the day light danced down the river the endless rush of now we would sanctify each breath if only we knew how i woke to a zephyr the air so fresh and warm we were meant for better things than chasing down the storm light danced down the river the endless rush of now we would sanctify each breath if only we knew how
2.
The Only One 03:10
The Only One i tried to convince you i couldn’t make a dent once the fantasy had died i don’t know where you went sure we had some tough times but i knew we’d get through please forget those fool mistakes i only wanted you yeah you were the only one i thought i could trust then of course it all blew up my heart ground to dust my friends tell me move on but i just can’t forget i had been a man transformed since the day we met yeah you were the only one i thought i could trust then of course it all blew up my heart ground to dust now it seems half normal to lie here all alone every time i try to call you hang up the phone yeah you were the only one i thought i could trust then of course it all blew up my heart ground to dust
3.
Just So I’m With You i woke up this morning one thing on my mind i saw i’d been wasting time i had been so blind don’t care where we go don’t care what we do don’t care rain or shine just so i’m with you i got home this evening finally it was clear why had i been full of doubt believing in my fear don’t care where we go don’t care what we do don’t care rain or shine just so i’m with you i don’t know what happened no more cloudy skies i know what i need to know that love light in your eyes don’t care where we go don’t care what we do don’t care rain or shine just so i’m with you
4.
Sea Change 03:12
Sea Change i lay on my deathbed and found the happy place so much good in everyone a smile upon my face somehow we’d averted grave perils at the gate once that seemed impossible but love was not too late she held back the morphine the end was coming near what was that he babbled it really wasn’t clear no one could explain it the way the spirit spread petty interests set aside one common goal instead i felt almost peaceful the family suffering gone we had passed the darkest night sweet glimmers now of dawn she held back the morphine the end was coming near what was that he babbled it really wasn’t clear all i felt was grateful to watch the sea change start saw my place in everything we’d never been apart she held back the morphine the end was coming near what was that he babbled it really wasn’t clear
5.
Autumn Leaves he awoke in cyberspace he’d somehow found a door dysfunctional the baseline now with everyone at war way out in the cosmos where men could truly roam but there were no autumn leaves and he sure missed back home we were raised in chaos and then it got much worse we’re the people we still need to void the serpent’s curse he checked distant choices but none would really do didn’t love the real estate and all so far from you still the earth mad dangerous the whole thing falling down hamstrung by heart sticking points his dream escape unwound we were raised in chaos and then it got much worse we’re the people we still need to void the serpent’s curse dropped back to the struggle that every human knows now he would accept his fate again unpack his clothes we were raised in chaos and then it got much worse we’re the people we still need to void the serpent’s curse
6.
Geese 03:21
Geese sundown in the funhouse dark criminal boudoir waiting on a blast of light our genres all gone noir you could see it coming old pretense ripped away brutal thugs and grifters grin bold malice on display money men still stealing their victims thick with hate blaming some imagined foe just rage upon each plate empire has to falter its pillars fade to dust robot swarms of locusts rise each stripping what he must back here changing channels i watch the hoopsters ball one more day in paradise that pause before the fall money men still stealing their victims thick with hate blaming some imagined foe just rage upon each plate i imagine wild geese smooth wings aloft in flight passing high above us all aglow in waning light money men still stealing their victims thick with hate blaming some imagined foe just rage upon each plate
7.
Crevices Of Mind something clearly loitering in crevices of mind there was toxic movement here they said they had to find it would give new meaning so much the fault explained they would prime the calculus vast force at last unchained i sent out the manuscript in which of course i’m right then they showed me to my cell and there i prayed all night there was no real answer to the riddle that they posed foggy lines of faceless men behind his desk he dozed snow fell on the manger the doctor shook his head beauty’s such a fragile beast but vice plays rough instead i sent out the manuscript in which of course i’m right then they showed me to my cell and there i prayed all night they called me to duty i scanned the mammoth brains now they knew their time had come each painted grin the same i sent out the manuscript in which of course i’m right then they showed me to my cell and there i prayed all night
8.
Quiet 03:05
Quiet he’d been gone a long time before he left for good he lit out for parts unknown crept silent as he could he crawled past the wreckage and tossed away his phone there was no one left to call we come and go alone it’s too far from here to there how can he find some peace seeking quiet in his heart and then the great release when they tried to tell him he didn’t hear a thing way too many razor blades in arguments they’d bring they kept right on bumping until he knew to bail now cacophony abounds more conflict without fail it’s too far from here to there how can he find some peace seeking quiet in his heart and then the great release we live in no exit where man’s a wolf to man tough when he gets lonely it sure upends the plan it’s too far from here to there how can he find some peace seeking quiet in his heart and then the great release
9.
The Mast 03:23
The Mast in the death of love in the throes of lies in the darkened room there’s no compromise as the knife sinks in as the vision fades as the fog descends on the ghoul parades something’s gonna hear us god will bend at last doling mercy on the cheap all tethered to the mast at the palace coup at the polar sea at the barrack dance got no guarantee on the final day on the grassy knoll on the angel’s lap with an empty bowl something’s gonna hear us god will bend at last doling mercy on the cheap all tethered to the mast from the deepest depth from the jagged peak from the beeping phone when the signal’s weak to the endless light to the silent end to the hymn we sing and the prayer we send something’s gonna hear us god will bend at last doling mercy on the cheap all tethered to the mast
10.
The Time Has Come hope flew like a swallow the moment here at last we prayed that it now was done the worst all in the past oh brother can’t you see the time has come oh sister can’t you feel the time has come hope skipped like a daughter the wind danced like a son suddenly the streets were filled new life for everyone oh brother can’t you see the time has come oh sister can’t you feel the time has come something was beginning we meant to make it good you could feel more dark clouds lift the whole world understood oh brother can’t you see the time has come oh sister can’t you feel the time has come oh people can’t you see the time has come oh people can’t you feel the time has come
11.
The Truth Has Many Enemies the truth has many enemies the lie so many friends nature full of subterfuge the arc of justice bends the truth is seldom absolute and lies will burrow in virtue such an asymptote a badge we never win spirit called for witness he offered what he could all that lay beneath the waves the terror and the good the truth so hard to offer when we fear what they’ll do pinocchio dodged consequence and so his long nose grew the truth so inconvenient it might undo the plan feral nation of the lie just grabbing what we can spirit called for witness he offered what he could all that lay beneath the waves the terror and the good the truth can build a scaffold lies leach like acid rain deluge of avoidance come tumbling down again spirit called for witness he offered what he could all that lay beneath the waves the terror and the good
12.
You Thought You Knew Lonely you’re emaciated with wiggle room now nil backed into a sweat house where nature’s come to kill the fire means to find you the virus knows your name you grab for that handhold but nothing stays the same you thought you knew lonely seems you had no clue they fade in the distance now there’s only you your house almost airless how long before you melt next will come the locust plague you play the hand you’re dealt spinning tragic music sweet tiny bursts of hope could this be the end time scant reservoirs to cope you thought you knew lonely seems you had no clue they fade in the distance now there’s only you though the pressure ratchets up this fever’s bound to break holding tight no panic just testing what it takes you thought you knew lonely seems you had no clue they fade in the distance now there’s only you
13.
River Road 05:46
River Road i went up past sunset to the perch outside your store there i watched the big eclipse i couldn't take much more almost near forever yet terrified to go trying to prepare myself for what i could not know glory and hosanna dark curses and a spell i’d forgotten everything but stories left to tell still i knew some pleasures that overrode the pain married to no meaning a snowman in the rain i had shunned the preacher the junta clearly sick i held just one fervent hope transition coming quick glory and hosanna dark curses and a spell i’d forgotten everything but stories left to tell i had learned the contours a way to juke the game following the river road remembering my name glory and hosanna dark curses and a spell i’d forgotten everything but stories left to tell
14.
Transfer 03:20
Transfer seeping through the skin car i felt you in the night had too much of being me this straining like a kite so i found your memories and cried your tragic tears it felt freeing feeling you a break from all these years you must love your own life as much as i guard mine every precious sorrow sings your portrait still unsigned i fear i’m a vampire and now it’s likely true craving new experience i had to come for you oh how sweet your perfume as i come creeping in even though you seem asleep the transfer can begin you must love your own life as much as i guard mine every precious sorrow sings your portrait still unsigned i walked by the river a lovesick autumn day was that me or my new friend it’s getting hard to say you must love your own life as much as i guard mine every precious sorrow sings your portrait still unsigned
15.
Vagabond 04:07
Vagabond if i were another person and i’d lived a different life maybe i'd have traveled often maybe brought along my wife i would razz my pals from college my close family i’d adore i would treasure every christmas grateful to have had one more now outside the fire rages while inside a fever clings such a vagabond of atoms once i felt the beating wings if i were another person i’d have followed straight lines through one clear solid path from childhood static even as i grew i would see myself in pictures hey of course that’s basic me never broken never searching being who i’d always be now outside the fire rages while inside a fever clings such a vagabond of atoms once i felt the beating wings if i were another person i’d be proud of my gold plaque born into a deep belonging not soul driven by some lack i’d have made a proud godfather trusted deacon of the church i would tend my blooming garden nowhere near this naked perch now outside the fire rages while inside a fever clings such a vagabond of atoms once i felt the beating wings
16.
Now The Light’s Returning deep below the surface beneath competing claims we spin ever in an arc the dance of many names each a revolution we circle round the sun it’s been ever just like this since global time begun now the light’s returning stays longer every day february’s all in love with what will come in may today i went out walking and shed my heavy coat i stood on the nearest hill renewal less remote mountains in the distance peaks sharp against the sky all the world soon waking up with folded wings to try now the light’s returning stays longer every day february’s all in love with what will come in may we descend to darkness when will it ever end til we reach the tipping point where hope’s reborn again now the light’s returning stays longer every day february’s all in love with what will come in may
17.
Waterfall 03:40
Waterfall floating for the waterfall the drop so sheer below right now you act in control then suddenly you go it seemed hard to fathom so many couldn’t see caught up in the endless lies the veil of liberty i hiked up into the hills where beauty touched my heart life in such profusion our solace from the start the state of things endangered like seldom here before yes of course there’s always change but could we trust the core maybe by a miracle this peril would shoot past then the country might survive perhaps our species last i hiked up into the hills where beauty touched my heart life in such profusion our solace from the start normal deaf and simple all hail the bottom line picnic on the precipice king dow jones doing fine every day a blessing the pleasure tinged with fear watching as more dark clouds raced now what would happen here i hiked up into the hills where beauty touched my heart life in such profusion our solace from the start
18.
Keeping On 04:48
Keeping On the sky goes on forever the moonlight ghostly pale out there on the mesa top it seems we lost the trail i am older than the waters i am silent as the dawn i’m the dust of constellations we’re the people keeping on the river has to claim you the thunder booms above now the roaring harvest burns dark power play of love i am older than the waters i am silent as the dawn i’m the dust of constellations we’re the people keeping on thought i felt a tremor again the rising sun walking down the arbored aisle in line with everyone i am older than the waters i am silent as the dawn i’m the dust of constellations we’re the people keeping on
19.
Everyman 03:41
Everyman everyman’s a hero in the grinding of it all never truly valued by the sisters down the hall once the future beckoned back then he had a dream now he nibbles crackers and pours the cat some cream it’s too much to handle such chaos to surmount brave determination still somehow he will count everyman’s a hero the world stays much the same trying to do the best he can and no one is to blame he intended better back then when he was young if the children ever call he’ll try to bite his tongue it’s too much to handle such chaos to surmount brave determination still somehow he will count everyman’s a hero so much he’s overcome trying to find some balance in the madness that he’s from he packs up the scrapbook small glories in the past sure he’s disappointed yet hopeful to the last it’s too much to handle such chaos to surmount brave determination still somehow he will count
20.
Dark Waters 05:45
Dark Waters humans can be programmed receptive minds like clay poisoned in a brief of lies just waiting on the day seething with frustration incited to a froth servants to their master’s voice like fire woos the moth we are sunk in history it’s not just musty past all the birds come home to roost dark waters swirling fast reason such a little boat atop a churning sea symbols set off tremors spark raging fantasies who controls the weapons who shapes the shallow mind cookie cutter avatars a mob that charges blind we are sunk in history it’s not just musty past all the birds come home to roost dark waters swirling fast we had been so stupid proud that it can’t happen here rag dolls of the viscera await their puppeteer we are sunk in history it’s not just musty past all the birds come home to roost dark waters swirling fast

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Named Best Pop CD by the 2022 New Mexico Music Awards

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released June 30, 2021

“Waterfall” marks my second excursion into the wondrous world of loops. Probably a somewhat smoother and more sophisticated production, for better or worse, than my first foray, “Unmasked,” and definitely more of a groove-based record.

This time, my friend, frequent collaborator, and multi-platinum producer, John Kurzweg, and I were joined, from York, England via cyber magic, by another friend, Simon Snaize, a stellar musician and songwriter in his own right, who’s also produced and played on records for/with me in the past. It was one of the blessings of this record to work with Simon again. He replaced pretty much all the bass parts on these tracks, among other fine additions, as well as co-shepherding the process with me. Simon and I share an interest in offsetting singer-songwriter lyrics and melodies against more contemporary musical landscapes: and, thus, here’s “Waterfall.”


Songs written, arranged, sung, recorded, and co-produced by Kito Peters.

Co-produced by Simon Snaize.

Mixing, additional production, and mastering by John Kurzweg.

Graphic design by Jasmine Quinsier.

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Kito Peters Santa Fe, New Mexico

Kito Peters has released (like doves!) quite a few CDs, has garnered his share of esoteric radio airplay, and has won a baker's dozen of New Mexico Music Awards, including twice for Best CD of the Year and four times for Best Pop CD. He is a big fan of Harry Bosch, Al Kaline, and Laura Nyro. ... more

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