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Breathless

by Kenny DesChamp

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Breathless explores the trauma inflicted as a result of generational addiction and neglect.

This work was inspired by the words of Dr. Gabor Mate:
"The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it."

The music began as an exploration of sound design (the "liquid" 16th-note rhythm at the beginning and the end is actually a wire doorstopper). Breathless is available for listening on all streaming services.

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Her babies were breathless
But she didn’t know why.
She ran out to buy oxygen
But instead she got high.
She never thought about them
Once she had her enemy in sight
And locked it in.
Now it’s suffocating
To realize it will happen
Again and again and again and again.

She fought it but forgot
There was a line in the sand.
And when she stepped across it
She couldn’t withstand
All the pressures that she
Held up against the light.
Now she’s blind
And she’ll not recover.
Now the price that she paid
Will never pay for the breath
Of her children who died.

It’s the kind of game that we have always played and never won-----
To be the narcissist in love and suffer next to none.
We were oblivious to everything that wasn’t dead,
Didn’t give a shit for anything anybody said.
So we continued to hunt down our victims.
The odds against us were enormous but we couldn’t look back.
And there was not a shallow breath to be-----
We had to hold ours and fly away and wait to see.
Our fathers said to look for
Islands that flood for the first time all day.
Now the game is over and God damn it ‘cause we lost again.
Our lungs are burning and bleeding inside us.

Her mother and father
Didn’t know how to cry.
There was nothing left to give away
In the holes that once held their eyes.
They stayed chained to the sinking land
And drowned in the blood of
All who died before them.
But breathless babies
Kept falling out of the sky.

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released March 1, 2024
Music & Lyrics: Kenny DesChamp
Recorded, mixed, & produced by Kenny DesChamp at Melvyn Kay Sound Studio, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Mastered at Haggarty Sound Studio, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Kenny DesChamp: vocals & MIDI programming.
Barry Haggarty: electric guitars.
Bob Steele: sound advice!
Kevan Smith: Official Music Video.
© Kenny DesChamp, SOCAN 2024. All rights reserved.

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Kenny DesChamp Peterborough, Ontario

Kenny DesChamp is an independent artist who lives and works in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Music at Queen's University in Kingston where he majored in voice and composition. His interest in 12-tone and other alternative scale structures, as well as aleatoric approaches to composition and songwriting are obvious influences. ... more

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