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Aletheia

by James Kinne

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1.
This Side Of (free) 03:53
She went down by the water In the hopes that she maybe could Be understood for the first time In a long time Wrote words down that could change the world But underneath all her words This poet girl Was still hiding You've always had walls around you You've always had guys in tow You've always had those who love you When always doesn't seem to translate with you I could scream myself to madness Just trying to reinforce this rightful course We were put on Never thought we could be here Never though things could fail I never thought I'd see this side of You never thought anything at all You've always had walls around you You've always had guys in tow You've always had those who love you When always doesn't seem to translate with you
2.
In Spades 05:14
Always under the impression that they knew best And mistakenly thinking that they might fill in the rest Started over many times that I grew tired Of watching the ones I'd trust turn into liars So I don't need no reasons I should have just kept this for myself When friends just change with the seasons I should have just kept this for myself It isn't ego that I'm tripping over in spades It's just that I'm really fed up with all the needless delays I appreciate the efforts that they gave me But it was in the end result we did not agree So I don't need no reasons I should have just kept this for myself When friends just change with the seasons I should have just kept this for myself In quiet times I realized In these hopeless wings It'd be my voice that'd sing So I don't need no reasons I should have just kept this for myself When friends just change with the seasons I should have just kept this for myself In quiet times I realized In these hopeless wings It'd be my voice that'd sing So I don't need no reasons I should have just kept this for myself When friends just change with the seasons I should have just kept this for myself
3.
Games 03:52
Mist on the water Hope down the drain Every time I redirect It always ends in pain Gotta listen to reason And stop assigning blame That's the core of why you still play games All I did was try for you Did everything I could do Wish you could have seen us through All I did was try for you Did everything I could do Wish you could have seen us through 'Cause all I did was try, for you.
4.
Shoulder 04:35
Barely through A life near lost And uncomfortable In all it might have cost Sometimes I miss having your shoulder Chips on mine just grow older Things I wish I had told her I miss having your shoulder So hear me now 'cause I'm ready to be heard When I spent so long trudging down doomed paths Never thinking they wouldn't last, oh no But now I see… That sometimes I miss having your shoulder Chips on mine just grow older Things I wish I had told her I miss having your shoulder Chips on mine they grow older Wounds that deep just get colder I miss having your shoulder
5.
Stuck Still 04:48
If you would've told me That I would be Writing a song about this when I was 23 I would have said no way That can't be I've got too many promising things now Right in front of me But I'm stuck still And I really thought I would have made it there by now If there was a reason Other than my own As the cards were laid out upon the table And tears in the fabric sewn Then I would have been able To keep it all stable And travel on my own But I lost my direction The wrong intersection Thinking I was owed But I'm stuck still And I really thought I would have made it there by now
6.
Better Now 05:14
Hey little angel Why do you close your eyes? Are you tired of seeing all our little white lies? I know where you're going I've been where you've been It's the same road I'm still stuck within But oh Is this really over? Oh no This can't be over… I must be dreaming See all the Christmas lights decorate the town Trying to mask everything that has fallen down I'll sing myself to sleep but you won't be listening And I hope you're better now But oh Is this really over? Oh no This can't be over… I must be dreaming Hey little angel Why do you close your eyes? Are you tired of seeing All my little white lies? I'll sing myself to sleep but you won't be listening And I hope you're better now But oh Is this really over? (I must be dreaming, I must be wrong) But oh Is this really over? (I wasn't dreaming, I wasn't wrong)
7.
All I Know 03:44
All I know Is I would have given you everything Soul to soul What I felt wasn't in my head You could've been the one to save my life And point me in the right direction I could've been the hero in your life If not for our lost connection All I know Is I would have given you everything All alone Writing this down, alone in my bed All I know Is I can now live with your ghost instead You could've been the one to save my life And point me in the right direction I could've been the hero in your life If not for our lost connection Even though the path was overgrown I would've rather grown old with you than be alone
8.
The news today Depicts pain Suffering Just more of the same So lock the door At the end of the day Pass one around And fade away I'm already under
9.
3am 02:53
How'd you go? 3am and I sit glued To the thought of other arms now holding you You're running still from the demons in your past And you left me here with mine and the minutes are so vast Alone… How'd you go? 3am and I sit glued To the thought of other arms now holding you You're running still from the demons in your past And you left me here with mine and minutes are so vast 3am and I'm still glued To the thought of those arms surrounding you You're running still from the demons in your past But you left Me Alone… I loved you, you know…
10.
Dig deep, dig deep down inside And find the answer This addiction's hold on me Cannot last ever after But oh, Come with me I'll give you the darkness you seek Oblivions allure is so sweet Then own your soul and see you in a week Depressed, Repressed, Regressed Until the world swims grey Depressed, Repressed, Regressed Pain is worse when I wake When I Finally Wake Alone, and hurting Nothing's changed I'm still alone and hurting But oh, Come with me I'll give you the darkness you seek Oblivions allure is so sweet Then own your soul and see you in a week Depressed, Repressed, Regressed Until the world swims grey Depressed, Repressed, Regressed Pushing life further away Deep Breaths, Repressed, Regressed Please God hear me say Depressed, Repressed, Regressed Pain is worse when I wake When I Finally Wake
11.
Used to be strong Used to be light I should have listened Because you were right The struggle inside And the grey in the day Wondering why Why haven't you carried me away? Why haven't you carried me away.. so I'm done? Another day ends Alone with my ghosts Hard to decide What hurts the most The pain all around Or the damage inside Losing my will And care for this life.
12.
How many lies did it take you to finally come clean in the end? You fed me the words that would keep me… ..like you were just confused but still a friend But actions spoke louder than words When you told the whole world you were his Thinking that I'd stand by the vows I spoke Even though you broke ours eighteen months in But I kept holding on To a life I thought would last longer I kept holding on To a marriage I assumed was stronger Just for the record, this isn't anger 'cause anger now won't help solve anything besides you're gonna have enough to dwell on 'cause we both know that I gave us everything But actions spoke louder than words When I found from someone else you were his Assuming that I'd stand by the vows I spoke Even though you broke ours eighteen months in But I kept holding on To a life I thought would last longer I kept holding on To a marriage I assumed was stronger I've been there and done that now.
13.
Same ceiling today A little darker and a little more faded Same wind in the trees The damn days I spend outside raking The same sound on the phone The crack in the glass of my Grandmother's picture So many here but alone I hate those days when I wake up and feel it's A disappointing life A disappointing life, sometimes. Struggle to find the words right More and more often I cannot remember Why my alarm needs to scream To make sure I'm awake, but not living The days that feel like a month The people you trust and eventually hurt you It's just those days in-between Those little reminders of how this can be a Disappointing life A disappointing life, sometimes.
14.
Spent time down some wrong roads Turned my back and it nearly took off my head Grown tired of my hurt soul And learned to step around shards of my former self Tell me all the truths you made up at school, my angel 'cause truth changes all the time in the depths of your mind My schizophrenic angel I thought I was safe home 'till world came and ripped me apart from inside Life changed while I was busy Keeping head above water while chained to a rock Tell me all the truths you made up at school, my angel 'cause truth changes all the time in the depths of your mind My schizophrenic angel
15.
Take me in from outside There are things out there, like me, but bite and hide Honest efforts spent keep telling me That if I can't make this work, it's flirting with insanity Out of these safe walls I don't belong Apparently beyond my soul feels wrong Regretfully wrong It was never like a loner stride When who I was within was printed clearly on the outside I'd be lying if I said it hasn't bothered me But apparently this choice isn't up to me Out of these safe walls I don't belong Apparently beyond my soul feels wrong Regretfully wrong Out of these safe walls I don't belong And apparently beyond my soul feels wrong I can rest now knowing I gave people my all But apparently beyond my soul feels wrong Regretfully wrong. So take me in from outside Cause even here, where my soul wants to be, and they still bite and hide.
16.
Up Control 03:01
Lay it down love, lay it down it's time 'cause I can feel the fire Taking up control And running on it's own Set it down love, set it all alone Let it ride it's path 'cause I'm tired of standing by When all I know is that I've come this far Staying true to who I am Write it down love, write it down 'cause I I have found the reasons why And I'm pulling at the roots And rewriting all the rules Hold me down love, hold me down in place Remembering the face Of a long misplaced best friend Echoing All I know is that I've come this far Staying true to who I am
17.
Aletheia 06:56
There was a time they say When I didn't play these games And I didn't hold onto the things that weren't true There was a chance I had That I cannot get past As the others have passed by In a backwards view I was Blinded no more 'cause I'm done with living tired and sore with open doors leading to the wrong thing I somehow found the will To remember who I was before The dreams in store Down the path the right way The negativity is over now I will not let you stand in my way now I broke it down to parts And combined my broken hearts Came clean with the pain And the defects of my game Found the strength I'd lost Still tallying the cost to pay Just day by day I'm coming around again The negativity is over now I will not let you stand in my way now I can see the path ahead more clearly now 'cause I've laid it all on the line here for you now Aletheia

about

"My brother Christopher, a professional musician living in Nashville, Tennessee, is fond of saying that truly great songwriting is only obtained through intense suffering and personal pain.

While I have disputed his statement over the years, I grudgingly will admit that, in the case of a new sonic project from one of the Mad River Valley’s most prolific and hardest-working musicians, my brother may very well be dead on.

Let’s say you’ve been through a rough personal patch, and need to figure out some way of making sense of it all.
Many of us embrace therapy of one sort of another – a healthy response, to reach out and seek some support.

Multi-talented musician James Kinne practices his own form of personal therapy.

To say that Kinne is perhaps the biggest holistic musical talent in the Mad River Valley – as an instrumentalist, a writer, a vocalist, and a producer with some remarkable ears - is probably a bald understatement (and I speak from personal experience, having performed with him for several years now.)

Simply put, Kinne makes music. Damn fine music. From soup to nuts. Here’s how he works.

He writes all the songs

He plays all the instruments.

He records and mixes the whole project in his own home Stillwater Studio.

And then, he puts his music out there for the world to hear.

“Aletheia” is Kinne’s third solo effort, and it is easily his most ambitious project to date, comprised of no fewer than seventeen songs.

OK, so back to music and personal suffering.

“Aletheia” is built around the collapse of Kinne’s young marriage several months ago, and his resulting journey towards healing and a deeper understanding of this complicated project we call “living.”

I know what you are thinking. Sounds intense. And it is.

Yet, Kinne has managed to craft a CD of songs that is hopeful, forward-looking, and manages to be at once deeply personal and big-picture universal.

“This Side Of,” the CD’s first track, kicks off the project with some edgy electric guitar power chording, as Kinne anchors the listener in a transitional moment. “In Spades” and “Games,” tracks 2 and 3, both come out of the gate with some infectiously hooky bass and electric guitar grooves. Kinne has a tremendous ear for melody, and is able to build ear-engaging arrangements around a variety of riffs with ease. Quite impressive.

My favorite track (#7) is a tune called “All I Know,” in which Kinne sings of loss, redemption and moving on. “You could have been the one to save my life, point me in the right direction,” he observes. “I could have been the hero in your life, if not for this lost connection.”

And then the kicker.

“Even though the path was overgrown,” he concludes, “I’d rather have grown old with you…than be alone.”

Indeed.

I could on for pages about the virtues of each of the seventeen songs on this CD. Suffice to say, Kinne’s writing, his musicianship, and the arranging on this CD are first rate. A short review can do it little justice.

“Aletheia” has to be heard to be believed

-Rob Williams - The Valley Reporter

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released November 19, 2009

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All Instuments and Vocals performed by: James Kinne
Recorded and Mixed by: James Kinne @ Stillwater Studio, Warren VT
All Music & Lyrics: James Kinne / SC68 ASCAP

Mastered by: Jim Bowen - Wavelength Masters
Artwork by: Dan Turcotte - Turcotte Designs

Special Thanks to: Jacob Blodgett, Jim Bowen, Dan Turcotte, Curtis Savard, Drew Whitney.

James uses Taylor Guitars and Knucklehead Strings exclusively.

This album is dedicated to Geoff Turner.
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