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The Teacher

by David Karsten Daniels

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Oh I want to be gone when you get home tonight, alright No I won’t be home when you get home tonight, alright I want to be flying away into the night When the baby is asleep, I will slip out in(to) the early morning light
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Baby Teeth 01:12
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behind the house there is a garden that i am tending for you when you come home this summer there is no root we will not pull the leaves in our mouths the laughter ringing through the house and all off this for you the drinking of wine the dancing late into the night inside the house there is a bathtub that we are filling for you when you come in this evening there is no crevice we will not clean the soap in our eyes the air your laughter seems to baptize and all of this for you the passing of time our unrecorded endless bloodline beside the house there is a pine box that you will fill with me when i go home this winter there is nothing i will not leave the salt on your skin the mucus you will not hold in and all of that for me this lifeblood we pass these bodies becoming dirt and ash
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Poppa was a singer had a voice that was a zinger took his fingers put ‘em on pianos played em with a tickle, yeah the crowds they were fickle but enough to bring my momma to the show that show, that show is where the magic grow poppa gave her that glow that glow, that glow is how he look for gold gonna play to get gold - Poppa got a dream gonna leave this Alabama Said to mama 'gotta get' she said 'No!' Jumped in his camino, said 'I'm off to California Come and find me when you ready' she said 'No!' She won't go, even when he beg her so stayin' home she won't go She said no, 'won't follow you to so and so' stayin' home, won't go - Papa on the street and met a banker who was eating tole him, money in the bank will always grow opened an account but his check would always bounce always looking for a buck, it don't show It won't grow, his money won't ever grow his investment to low It won't grow, that money won't ever grow his investment to low - Got up on a bus, one way ticket Guatemala Gonna take his stack o dollars, buy a grove Lay up in a hammock, in his hand Pina Colada Not a single bill to pay, not a commode It won't grow, his banana won't even grow his banana won't grow They won’t grow, even when he curse em so his bananas won't grow
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Why can't the sun just come out? Why can't the sun just come out?
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When I was a sailor I made em When I was an island, a lion when I was a tight rope, I left him when I was an island, I was in ocean when I was in Zion, I was alone then when I was his ocean, I was an orphan when I was an island, saw me some sky then
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when you pass I will come to understand at last when you pass i will understand at last i will understand at last when you pass
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when all the leaves of grass are sown I look up to see what I own I own what is there left to be I take all of the family I know I'll not a lot to leave I know what I have got to be and I survive and I surmise I take what I see with my eyes I take what I see with my eyes I take what I see with my eyes I know there is no more of this
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THE TEACHER is the 8th full length album from Dallas, Texas based songwriter David Karsten Daniels. It weaves together DKD's iPhone demos and private field recordings to (somewhat cryptically) sketch out the story of a new father struggling with the newfound interdependency of family life and the unavoidable - but much needed - death of self.

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released January 29, 2016

all songs and performances by DKD except
'We Go Out Into the Ocean' by DKD and K.

additional drumming from Daniel Hunt
additional vocals from Catamt Coyote, K8, MMM and K.
photography by Shayna Fontana

Ⓒ 2016 David Karsten Daniels,
all songs pubished by smll thngs (ASCAP)
℗ 2016 smll thngs

All rights of the manufacturer and owner of the recorded work reserved.
Unauthorized public performance, copying, or lending prohibited.

info: www.davidkarstendaniels.com

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The albums of David Karsten Daniels inhabit a unique imaginary place where folk, rock, pop, ambient, jazz and field recordings bleed into each other seamlessly underneath musings on family, life/death, religion and love undeterred by distance and time. NPR named his collaboration with Fight the Big Bull, one of the ‘5 best genre-defying albums of 2010”. ... more

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