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Keep for Life

by Rosey Dust

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She’s the one, wrapped in a flame Need only know her essence Need only know her name Since I’ve been gone, I can see her face And I can feel her pain Gold country sun melt this frozen rain Here I’m plain. I could start out new for you I could run. I could be born again Into the arms of a friend Together we can ascend Has your world stopped since I’ve been away? Trust I’ve learned my lesson Trust I’m here to stay ‘Cause with your hand in mine I can see no hate, and I can feel no pain All the tears now lost So many years to reclaim Rake my brain, for the perfect view for two High above. Beyond all worldly restraint. Here we could have everything. Here we could have everything.
2.
Somebody New 04:09
Gaze sinking in, got your head hanging low Once thought I was something, now boy don’t it show Still news to me Cast into shadows, shrouded in mystery I’m changing, its true Become somebody new In a new leather coat, you’d look good anywhere Leave your face at the door, you won’t need it out there Soon you'll vanish through the rosey dust My dosey heart will slowly rust No clues to see Shreds of anonymity, adrift in open sea I’m dreaming, it’s true You’re somebody new
3.
What a lovely lady, did you hear her say? She hasn’t got a clue, she can’t find her way Oh it’s so easy just to make her cry Don’t wanna treat her bad, don’t wanna tell her lies Someday a million miles will come between us Someday her kiss won’t feel the same Still I wouldn't dare to ask her why Honey do it, I can’t go through it I ain’t even gonna try So if you go, baby do it now Sometimes I’d like to leave ya Then glad I don’t know how You see your mind is sharp and it cuts me like a knife So take a piece of me, baby Take a piece of me that you can keep for life All you can keep for life All you can keep for life But you can’t keep me for life Even if I ran could never hide from you, 'Cause to my every thought, you have the perfect view Despite those bright lights calling, I think I’ll stay for awhile. Do I lose more sleep tonight? Oh do I lose my way only to see you smile? I love to see you smile I love to see you smile I’ll be a friend of denial
4.
Voices hide in scattered glass they call your name each time I pass through perfect blue eternity where desert crumbles to the sea There’s me waiting on a distant dream endlessly fading into a distant scene and there you gleam So may the world always remember you and I were one the same The kids are all so older now once always smiled and never frowned A perfect beauty in my care beneath the skin, see only bones and I stare toward anywhere until I care just breathe just breathe the air until I’ve had my share of all the world’s infinite splendor Win or lose, I’ll feel the same
5.
Seems the days are so long lately System so hard to appease See no clear end in sight to the wind nor rain Shots put your poor soul at ease All people talk so bitter All lying just to please Were there an imperfect cure for this perfect pain Would you sell your soul for a piece? (chorus): Seems your skin’s so white now Always your eyes are closed Each night out seems so innocent So every story goes Still it shows every memory that you’ve ever known, One stray shot could destroy Don’t be gone so soon, could be that life is a joy. Each day our shadows grow starker now Try to resist it in vain But when you’re gone, where the sun shines Your love leaves only a stain All people talk so bitter All lying just to please Were there an imperfect cure for this perfect pain I’d sell my soul for a piece (chorus) Na na, na na na na. Na na na na na na na etc….
6.
Please believe me, please believe my lies For surely you will die from the surprise If the feeling it ain’t true, it don’t mean these nights ain’t cold Is it all for the love of a woman, or just the fear I’m growing old? Because I fear I’m growing old. You can take a look inside of me, but I’m afraid there’s nothing there. Girl your blue eyes lose their beauty behind that deadly vacant stare I’m forever bonded to this guitar, and that we both can’t deny. Seems all I can provide’s the blues, and girl I hate to see you cry You know I hate to see you cry So as the new day rises, again I’m on my own Hot coffee in my whiskey helps melt my heart of stone And if I should have news for you recall that last goodbye Know all I can provide’s the blues And girl I hate to see you cry Yeah I hate to see you cry I’ll just be getting by I’ll just be getting high…
7.
Velvet charmer, again I’m caught in your stare Know she’s my baby, and she ain’t going nowhere Once I was a bad son, yes all the stories are true Change comes at a cost And girl I’m changing for you Shouldn’t talk at all, I shouldn’t even care Home is on four wheels and I can live anywhere Still this world ain’t got a clue Could I stand it without you? Oh it feels inside I’m dying as I’m split in two No point searching when there ain’t nothing to find All these years of sinking, can gladly leave those behind Since I discovered I need you, since I discovered I care To take the chance on losing you, now honey I wouldn’t dare Since I discovered you need me, since I discovered you care Everything can now hurt me, your love is all I can bear Still seems I took it for granted, the way you treated me kind Oh I always shoulda had my eyes on you, but honey I was so blind Oo Oo Oo Oo! Oo Oo Oo Oo! Oo Oo Oo Oo! Still this world ain’t got a clue Could I stand it without you? Oh it feels inside I’m dying as I’m split in two Oh it feels inside I’m dying…
8.
Through waterfalls and rainbow glare I look into the sun and stare It don’t hurt at all it don’t hurt at all It can’t hurt to fall I’ll feel nothing at all No point to fear I’m not to hide just ebb along electric tide For oh, overall don’t you feel so small? It can’t hurt to fall You’ll feel nothing at all With empty palms, just scarlett wine We’ll travel back so far in time And oh, overall Oh I feel so small It can’t hurt to fall I feel nothing at all

about

Perpetually flowing between the meticulous melodies of dream pop and the casual excesses of slacker rock, Rosey Dust is the brainchild of versatile song-writer Kevin Klausen.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Klausen first made a name for himself in the Bay Area as leader of the industrious freak-punk band, Dealer. Discontented within the confines prescribed by heavy music, he began exploring a back catalogue of neglected material. Gentler in spirit, dynamically complex and lyrically vulnerable, this new work consumed him. He demoed the songs on a 4-track within a few short months, and the warm reception received by the resulting cassette—aptly titled "Basement Demos"—inspired him to form a band. This first live version of Rosey Dust—featuring Kyle LaFave on second guitar, Josh Van Geem on bass, and Jacob Bradford on drums—would go on to play a handful of shows up and down the coast before embarking upon Rosey Dust’s debut studio effort, "Keep for Life", in the summer of 2018

Engineered and guided along by legendary rocker, Tim Green, "Keep for Life" is "Basement Demos" expanded. Consisting mostly of the same songs, it is the unique styles of the conscripted players that make this album something different—LaFave’s atmospheric, intentional guitar playing, grazing against Klausen’s own more aggressive approach, both effortlessly coalesce with Van Geems spirited, jazzy inflections and are fortified by Bradford’s competent drumming to paint a shimmering, new sonic landscape. “She’s the One” kicks off like a chill summer jam straight out of Kurt Vile’s playbook, if only J. Mascis were ripping solos. There’s “Somebody New”, a heartbreaking, minimalist dirge; “Keep for Life”, a true to form power pop opus in the style of Cheap Trick or Big Star, if either went heavy on the fuzz; and “Infinite Splendor”, a vast, whimsical dreamscape, submerged in reverb and imbued with a euphoric sort of loneliness we’ve all at one point surely known but would have struggled to describe.

Side B juxtaposes harder songs like “Don’t Be Gone Soon” and “Velvet Charmer”—together lurching forward with the poppy recklessness of the Replacements or Teenage Fanclub—with breezier songs like “Heart of Stone”—nearly an outlier in its folky, psychedelic virtue—and the album’s devastating acoustic finale, “Rainbow Glare”. Weaving its way through everything is Klausen’s laid back, albeit compassionate, drawl, recounting themes of emptiness, ephemeral human relationships, and a deep desire for the narcotic perks of an apathetic worldview. These meditations culminate only with a deepening realization that none of life’s big questions will ever be answered; that we’re just ebbing along a surging tide of unpredictable circumstance, striving merely not to drown.

Through an ever-shifting backdrop of cities, band members and a steady dose of heartache, Klausen’s split artistic personality remains at it’s core the essence of Rosey Dust— a hard rock guitar player at heart, torn between a love of lush, overproduced pop music and the bare honesty of a plug-in-and-play punk rock upbringing. Rosey Dust is at once laissez-fare and extremely serious, hopeless yet blissfully resigned to fate. Perhaps the closing lines of “Infinite Splendor,” set above its oceanic delay and roaring solos, capture this at best: “And I stare, toward anywhere. Until I care. Just breathe. Just breathe the air, until I’ve had my share. Of all this world’s infinite splendor. Win or lose I’ll feel the same.”

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released December 27, 2019

Recorded by Tim Green at Louder Studios in Grass Valley, CA. August 2018.

Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.

Cover photo by Dan Crayonton

Kevin Klausen - guitar, vocals
Kyle LaFave - guitar
Joshua Van Geem - bass, backing vocals
Jacob Bradford - drums

All songs by Kevin Klausen.

Gulcher Records 2019

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Rosey Dust Portland, Oregon

Dreamy bedroom pop with a dad rock edge.

9/13 - Polaris Hall w/ The Criticals

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