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Serenading Renegades

by Natasha Kozaily

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1.
Magic People 03:32
Your arms are so very long They wrap round me twice comin’ back around Down we look at shiny pavements Stepping to that eastern cadence Chorus: Pluck my heart strings till they burst And it won’t be my last or your first Coz we are magic people, we do magic things We are magic creatures, we dream magic dreams I am oh so very small Both hands fit in yours like a marble Side by side we don our masks and Shoot for the stars but land with a crash The sound of those notes from your lungs Tickle my ears and warm my blood I wiggle like a worm, fall deeper in your harmonic turns Oh those notes that colour the air Steal to my side in your lovely stare I struggle to define the fire that burns in our eyes In the pockets of the moon I watch the earth turn as you spoon me This won’t last but until then We’ll dance and sing before the end
2.
Blinded 04:26
Sitting on a hill looking down at little shadows of men I saw you through a superhero lens walking Moving with the wind in your hair you looked so lovely down there I saw you through a superhero lens carving waves Blinded by you Blinded by the view Photographic memories will never capture my mood When I’m falling for you Just another day in this old town feeling stuck in the crowd But with you every day is an endless summer wave I love you more I love you more then my hands can reach Can’t say how much, some say too much but how can that be? My new addiction, I don’t care about your future predictions Coz I believe, I believe that love is a good thing
3.
Spoon full of twenty five spices, two flowers, a shoe And the tiniest elephant in the world Entered the giant’s mouth Sitting on top of the clouds “Hault! Don’t swallow me Please, don’t eat me I am the tiniest elephant in the world” The giant looked at the tiny elephant in his big spoon Feeling slightly perplexed Thinking he should give this tiny little thing a chance “I am the tiniest elephant in the world Oh if you eat me, if you eat me, if you do You will be small too You can no longer sit upon the clouds above the Himalayas Looking down at the world moving in its mundane circles” The tiny elephants voice echoed through the clouds And the giant thought twice about his life And slowly, very slowly, set the spoonful back down to earth
4.
Who We Be 03:30
Grinding up the red to put it on my lips And take a little blue from the sky and make perfect Little footprints to show me the way Because I have a tendency to get lost every day You like to make a blueberry peanut butter milkshake It tastes just like a PB&J, that’s how you start your day Most of the time except when you trade Your routine for a moments surprise, you never keep it the same Sometimes we do funny things They think that we’re a mess But to you and I we are making complete sense We don’t care what they say coz if everyone was the same It would be so boring Who we be? We be who? I be me you be you Who we be? We be who? I be me you be you We’re always in the water, we never comb our hair We like to keep it simple and we love to share Our leftovers with strangers, our humble home with friends We love to play we hate to fight and sometimes just for fun we like to scare each other
5.
Frightful dreams leave me in relief Covered in morning light that creeps through leaves My awaken breath exhales in grateful melody I believe in loving I listen with my eyes to your sweet words that tangle me Inspire me remind me to smile and be happy I believe in loving And our souls in perfect symmetry And I believe in music Music between you and me when our hearts lock in harmony Twisted up in renaissance shapes Broken in morning light we start to fade You touch me with your eyes and all your breath escapes Stealing our memories Until it’s just us and this tired messy bed Lets make room for joy and the present day ahead
6.
When something out of the ordinary happens We become suspicious and uptight Romantic gestures are too much And friendly faces want too much How did we get here? Tell me, when did we let fear rule us? And what is the answer? And where do we go from here? I remember the day we met you said to me That you were the fastest boy in the whole world I’m not a very good runner but I tried To catch you when we both fell out of time I fell in love with you on a sunny summer evening And you couldn’t help but be a little confused about your feelings But I have so much love to give I wanna love you forever And I don’t care what the people say I’m a dreamer my love is here to stay
7.
Pink patches of childish reverie Lost in this forest of temporary bliss I’m trying not to miss out on these gifts I can’t help it if my heart rules my head Especially in moments when I’m trying to get Your rational ideas are concepts that I feel instead You are a brush with death And we are burned in my mind morning silhouettes And you haven’t changed since the day we met And these feelings of love are so hard to forget Time passes while I stay here watching you From our bed that we made while you float on to That imaginary hill looking down at me looking up at you
8.
Have you ever seen shooting stars like these Like a waterfall falling to the sea I recognize constellations in your eyes Here in paradise Here in paradise The moon smiles down on us And we just met but here we are Abandoning time under the stars While the moon smiles down on us In the company of stellar lights and faded trees We hear the beating of waves against the beach You recognize a kindred spirit in my eyes Here in paradise Here in paradise
9.
Whale 04:53
A whale opened its mouth and spit me out Coming back coming back on his way from Antarctica And I was sinking like a stone, feeling all alone when you came to save me Came to save me and we rose up and took our first breath together You looked through my window and what did you see? A jar, a jar full of really nice feathers I looked in your heart and what did I find? A sailboat on a flooding river A wail of joy bursted from my happy heart From the deep to the high the animals blessed our lovers cry And no more were the days I couldn’t breathe I couldn’t say This love moves me, your love proved me wrong A whale swallowed me whole and spit me out for a love that Moved me and proved me wrong I feel like bursting from joy with a wail
10.
The Abyss 03:14
Golden glows off this scene And courtesy fades with the sun As darkness sets in and hues move think on top of one another Bluer blues and bigger fish Staring into the abyss I can’t see the bottom, I don’t care I’m diving in I might drown Oh it’s okay I am swimming down down down I’m not afraid Golden fires alight in me I’m naked against this scene Pushing me over board pushing me off this ledge I’m diving in I see those shiny shark teeth Turning circles around me All the reds are disappearing, I don’t care I’m giving in My lungs are begging for air But the mystery at the bottom of the sea Pulls me deeper into unknown territory My heart is drumming loud At the possibility that at the bottom of the sea Patiently, Love is waiting for me
11.
Did you hear it? Did you feel it? It was the breeze the cool breeze Did you feel it? Did you see it? It was a leaf against your cheek Don't pretend Don't forget that this world is calling you Calling you to feel her touch Do you hear her cry for love? Did you hear it? Did you feel it? It was the sea, the beautiful sea Did you hear it? Did you feel it? It was a bird a free bird Outside your window she says to you I'm quivering, quivering I'm looking at you through a glass All my friends are gone All my friends are gone and all I see is trash I'm wishing you would like you used to Climb up in my branches Wouldn't that be fantastic? And sing to me La la la la la La la la la la
12.
The silent boy spent his days dancing round the halls of his lonely place He couldn’t talk but he could listen and he could hear things far in the distance He could hear the footsteps of his mother He could hear the quiet thoughts of his brother The wind, the bees, the flowers, the trees He could hear almost everything Safe behind the palace walls he heard their voices long before Alarm bells rang and soldiers came running to guard the palace gates We march to an ancient song Oh we’ve been sleeping too long We woke to a beautiful dream And now we can’t stop singing The kingdom stood upon the hill watching the mob growing near A choir of renegades, hungry poor souls yearning for change The silent boy never heard a more beautiful sound And then he knew if he could sing he would join their voices loud

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Serenading Renegades is the latest offering from San Diego based chanteuse and pianist Natasha Kozaily. In this 12 song recording Natasha is coming into her own as she weaves a story of love and self-discovery amidst a musical tapestry of soaring melodies and hip-swaying rhythms.

After exploring the realms of jazz and classical music in her EP A Tale of One Fish, Natasha finds a comfortable middle ground between the experimental and popular which she expresses in her own playful way. Drawing inspiration from her diverse cultural background and musical life, listeners will hear hints of influences from My Brightest Diamond, Regina Spektor and Gotye to the waltz’s of Yann Tiersen and vocal ornamentations of Fairuz.

Serenading Renegades spans the lifetime of a great love from conception to death with a sparkle of hope and the exploration of loneliness and compassion in the story songs of The Tiniest Elephant in the World and A Song About A Tree.

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released September 25, 2013

Voice & Piano - Natasha Kozaily
Nylon & Electric Guitar - Dusty Brough
Bass - David Carano
Drums - Julien Cantelm

A Special Thanks to these featuring artists:
Matthew Molarius - Vocals
Chad Farran - Percussion
Erdis Maxhelaku - Cello
Yvonne Shay - Violin

All music and lyrics written by Natasha Kozaily

Recorded at Lost Ark Studio, San Diego, California
Produced by Mike Butler and Natasha Kozaily
Engineered and Mixed by Mike Butler
Mastered by Jamal Ruhe
Underwater photography by Courtney Platt
Desert photography by Rebecca Joelson
Art and Design by Bojh Parker

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