Name: Ballad for Ballard [v22|3s]
Duration: P00H04M18S
Description: I wrote this song after visiting Seattle for the first time. I stayed in the Ballard neighborhood with one of my best friends for a few days and I felt the energy of the area inviting me to write. Feel welcome. Feel thankful. It's a start when you don't know what paths to take in life.

Ballad for Ballard [v22|3s]

by Dot Bella Quist

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I wrote this song after visiting Seattle for the first time. I stayed in the Ballard neighborhood with one of my best friends for a few days and I felt the energy of the area inviting me to write. Feel welcome. Feel thankful. It's a start when you don't know what paths to take in life.

lyrics

Are you welcome?
Are you thankful?
It’s a start
It works like any game

Pick your pieces
Spin your numbers
Win or lose
You’re playing just the same

Find your reason
Sink your teeth in
Make your mark
Remember why you came

More of what you’ve got
That’s all there is to gain

Was that you in my dreams
Making roads out of walls?
Was that you in my dreams
Making flights out of falls?
Making flights out of falls

Keep it simple
Keep it sacred
Shed your prudence
Don’t abstain from me

Strip me down
Until I’m something
What you will not show
You cannot be

Find your reason
Sink your teeth in
Make your mark
Remember why you came

More of what you’ve got
That’s all there is to gain

Was that you in my dreams
Making songs out of breath?
Was that you in my dreams
Making life out of death?
Making life out of death

Find your reason
Sink your teeth in
Make your mark
Remember why you came

More of what you’ve got
That’s all there is to gain

To gain
To gain
To gain
To gain

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released March 21, 2022
Mastered by UJ Pesonen

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Dot Bella Quist Wichita, Kansas

A name is a container. I covet the remainder. All of below. Part of above. I tell my story with temperance and love, lullabying along. It'll all make sense in context, I show myself in song.

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