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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

by Kicking Bird

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1.
Names Are Changing 03:13
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Well your mama don't like me I don't care for her either, but your uncle thinks I'm all right and he's a stand up guy Yeah we're going out tonight girl, if you wanna come with us There's room in the car, but we won't wait forever And everyone's names are changing Everyone's names are changing tonight You might get caught by the ocean because you tried to steal the soul of a wave Whoaaa oh I don't know if you know this, but I've been sitting beside you just smelling your hair and I think I'd like to But everyone's names are changing Everyone's names are changing tonight You might get caught by the ocean because you tried to steal the soul of a wave Whoaaa oh Yeah we're going out tonight girl if you wanna come with us There's room in the car so get in the car And everyone's names are changing Everyone's names are changing tonight You might get caught by the ocean because you tried to steal the soul of a wave with your camera You won't get away with it
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Lauren 03:04
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Lauren you have doubled my imagination and I can't stop talking of all the ways to disengage my prior inclinations I’ve been learning, I’m unlearning I’m calling out your name You don’t hear it anymore Here at this unexpected party and he kissed you, two times Of all the ways you crept into my basement leaving traces but I missed you Oh Lauren what ever happened to you? You don’t hear it anymore Dig down deep you know you know the song, but if you can't breathe we all will sing along Lauren you have doubled my imagination and I can’t stop talking of all the ways to disengage my prior inclinations I've been learning and unlearning What ever happened to you? You don’t feel it anymore
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Talking to Girls (On the Internet) 03:16
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Talking to girls on the internet Acting like somebody that you might expect Flashing a smile Doing a move Talking to girls on the internet Riding the pipeline out to the countryside (Don’t love the rocks and bees but) the lighting’s nice Drinking an apple Biting a grape Riding the pipeline out to the countryside Wooo-oooo I’ve been talking to girls Wooo-oooo I’ve been talking to girls Wooo-oooo I’ve been talking to girls on the internet Talking to Girls on the internet Making my profile something you won’t forget Cropping a picture Killing a dog Talking to girls on the internet Wooo-oooo I’ve been talking to girls Wooo-oooo I’ve been talking to girls Wooo-oooo I’ve been talking to girls on the internet Wooo-oooo I’ve been talking to girls Wooo-oooo I’ve been talking to boys and girls Wooo-oooo I’ve been talking, I’ve been talking, I’ve been talking, I've been talking to girls
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Just to Be Here with You 03:59
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I see you walking like you don’t know where to go, and you’re walking like you’re putting on a show But if I knew a thing about anything I’d go miles and miles and miles and miles and miles just to be here with you Just to be here with you And you’re acting like you never knew a soul in a city where you nearly touched gold But if I had my way you’d spend all your days You'd go miles and miles and miles and miles and miles just to be here with me Just to be here with me I see you walking like you’re caught up in the zoo, moving back and forth and in and out of view I know that I, I could catch your eye I’d go miles and miles and miles and miles and miles just to be here with you Just to be here with you Just to be here with you Just to be here with you
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All the Smallest Places Turn into a Dream 03:23
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You go on, take the morning, sleep it all off I will be quiet baby I won’t wake you til I’m gone There all the snow and all the balconies were too close So, we went off for something you had known as home But all my waiting was feeling like a dream So I let you lead Now there’s a little choir every time we sing All of the smallest places turn into a dream Here where the chorus sounds like I have never sung before But all my waiting was feeling like a dream So I let you lead But all my waiting was feeling like a dream So I let you lead
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Stuck 03:12
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What can I do to get over you that I haven’t done before What could I say that I haven't said to get you knocking on my door You're fading I’m hanging around What can I do to say I love you? What can I do to say I want you? Over and over again you’re stuck in my head What Can I do to say I’m sorry? What can I do to change this story? Over and over again you’re stuck in my head Who could I be that I haven't been to show you just how much I've changed? And who can we be if I woulda been where I need to rearrange? You're fading I’m hanging around What can I do to say I love you? What can I do to say I want you? Over and over again you’re stuck in my head What Can I do to say I’m sorry? What can I do to change this story? Over and over again you’re stuck in my head What can I do to say I love you? What can I do to say I want you? Over and over again you’re stuck in my head What Can I do to say I’m sorry? What can I do to change this story? Over and over again you’re stuck in my head
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Impermanent Assistant 02:48
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How can you run when you know your feet tell me everywhere you go? Those shoes are too clean to hide anything How can you talk in your sleep? When your body’s alive you don’t speak That mouth is too sweet to lie to me, oh yeah I been sitting in the mailroom honey, been writing the lines I could tell you something not that funny if you got the time, but that mouth is too sweet to lie to me, oh yeah French plastics, aromatics it’s just so indirect to me Vibrations, frustrations it’s all the same effect to me I been sitting in the mailroom honey, been writing the lines I could tell you something not that funny if you got the time, but that mouth is too sweet to lie to me, oh yeah Can’t lie to me, no no You’re just too sweet, yeah yeah Can’t lie to me, can't lie to me, can’t lie to me la la la
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Hickory River 03:18
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u fill up my heart then your gone Have another on me Friends and lovers, let it be in the darkness and in the light Have another on me Friends and lovers, let it be Keep your chin up, you're alright You know I love you Stay on fire
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238 03:22
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Pretty moon in the darkness, hanging low like you're waiting on a kiss from me A kiss just from me Walking home in your eyeline I know you got those pretty little eyes on me Oh ho, you got your eyes on me Two hundred thirty eight thousand miles away It's all I can do just to get through the day So I can see your beautiful face It takes my troubles all away You are the queen of the darkness and I am the daylight king and I am fighting for everything, everything When the bats start to whisper in your ear girl it's better you don't believe Oh no, they don't know anything Two hundred thirty eight thousand miles away It's all I can do just to get through the day So I can see your beautiful face Takes my troubles all away Pretty moon in the darkness, hanging low like you're waiting on a kiss from me A kiss just from me Walking home in your eyeline I know you got those pretty little evil eyes on me Whoa oh, you got your eyes on me
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Talking to Ghosts (IRL) 03:47
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Slip away and forget you ever knew me I’m still on your mind Slide away Let the good times roll you over I’m still on your mind I’m still on your mind Your house has changed but it’s still the same old ghosts that used to haunt you You don’t complain because there ain’t a thing they could do to scare you now Slip away You can visit when the moon grows I’m still on your mind Slide away It’s a mirror on a tightrope I’m still on your mind I’m still on your mind Your house has changed but it’s still the same old ghosts that used to haunt you You don’t complain because there ain’t a thing they could do to scare you now Slip away Kiss the past with both eyes open I’m still on your mind Slide away You can dig with fingers broken I’m still on your mind I’m still on your mind Your house has changed but there's still the same old ghosts that used to haunt you You don’t complain because there ain’t a thing they could do to scare you now
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Rip Off 03:41
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I saw the face of the moon in the message board and she won’t look at me now He said “it sounds like Townes” I said “everything’s a rip off” What if you knew that it was love I was feeling? Would it move you? What can you do? I’d say “everyone’s looking at you, but not me” Oh let her out, let her out of the house before she imagines a fire You told her right to her face that she “makes it all happen” What if you knew that it was love I was buying? Would I lose you? What can you say? I’d say “everyone’s looking away, but not me” What can you say? I’d say “everyone’s looking away, but not me”

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"Everything's a rip off." Kicking Bird states that clearly but without irony or apology on their debut album Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. The twist however is that while stolen chords or melodies are an inevitability in all music, it's impossible to not filter the work of those who came first through our own cracked and unique lenses. This is where the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack shines.

Kicking Bird lives inside the connective tissue that started with the first instruments, voices and drums. Subtly familiar but still completely unique, each song on Original Motion Picture Soundtrack attempts to find a space inside the strings and vibrations to reach that wholly shared experience inside all of us, the need to dance. Their live performances slam back and forth between explosive and intimate, highlighted by the polarity shifts of "Just To Be Here With You" and "All The Smallest Places Turn Into A Dream".

The interplay between three distinct vocalists helps define the sound of Kicking Bird while guitars, keys and drums blast through 1-4-5 chord changes that channel the carefree recklessness of early New York punk and 60s Midwest girl groups. Songs like "Lauren" vibrate with urgency and tension, angular guitar riffs calling back to the early 2000s and bands born out of wild eyed bathroom meetings and poorly lit studio apartments.

Five people brought shared experiences into a shed beside a river in southeast North Carolina. What came from that time together is humble, simple, and undeniably unified. Fictions and truths mixed together into a final story, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

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released May 19, 2023

Fort Lowell Records
FLR055

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Kicking Bird is:
Shaun Paul - Guitar, Bass Guitar Vocals
Shaylah Paul - Keyboards, Vocals
Robin Cooksley - Guitar
Greg Blair - Drums
Tom Michels - Bass Guitar, Guitar, Vocals

Recorded by Tom Michels
Produced by Kicking Bird and Tom Michels
Mixed by Frank Mazzeo
Mastered by James Scott

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