"Shadow" 
Words & Music by Kela Parker
(2022) 

From what inside do I run
It's gonna show before too long 
What I need but I fear 
All I deny coming clear 

You've got what I want to be
What I can sense but cannot retrieve 
And I'm reaching but I hide 
Is it real or in my mind, woah

Won't find the light this time 
Shadow come over my eyes 
How much longer will I go 
Running out my shadow 

Only in dreams do I know 
Oh there I can see so much more 
Woah.....

Won't find the light this time 
Shadow come over my eyes 
How much longer will I go 
Running out my shadow 

The hall of mirrors always delivers 
Always keeping score 
Stuck in the shape of my wanting 
Only silence knows
How much longer can I go 
Running out my shadow

"The Hunter" 
Words & Music by Kela Parker
(2022) 

My cold rider 
My only enemy 
She's come to take me 
Down again 
How brittle the branches break
To start a fire 
Don't ever take much 

Don't tempt the hunter 
Who do you think you are? 
Always playing God 
Question what you got 
You choked on the apple seed 
Trying to get what ya need your line is 
Caught 
So don't tempt the hunter 

My jealousy splits me 
At the seams 
Makes a meal of me 
Look out, she takes everything 
It's a test of your trust 
Oh tortured one 
Now you're on the run 

Don't tempt the hunter 
Who do you think you are? 
Always playing God 
Question what you got 
You choked on the apple seed 
Trying to get what ya need your line is 
Caught 
So don't tempt the hunter 

Took another spin 
Don't let her in
Don't let her in 
Don't build that nest 
You gotta just forget it 
You took another spin
Don't let her in
Don't let her in 
You took another spin
Don't let her in
Don't let her 
Don't tempt the hunter

"Shoulda Known Better" 
Words & Music by Kela Parker
(2022) 

I shoulda known 
I shoulda known better
When the movie screen in my head
Began to flicker 

I tell you I cannot take another wreck
It would burn me to cinders 
I've been in a world, I've been in a world of my own

Still, I shoulda known, I shoulda known 
I shoulda known better
How my heart can hold a candle for one who's not there 
I tell you I do not dare
I've worn my share of rose-tinted glasses
Once or twice I did, once or twice I paid the price 
I.....shoulda known, shoulda known better.....

And I do not dare say --
Why curse myself again
And I know it's better this way
Cannot take another wreck 

Words & Music Copyright © 2022 Kela Parker

"Calling in the Cold"
Words & Music by Kela Parker (2020)  

Not like any other winter 
No going home 
A planet on edge 
Line the windows and doors 

Who knows what's coming 
After this summer's burn 

Calling, calling, calling in the cold 
Could it ever be the same, go back like it was before? 

La da da dee....

Have you kept it the same,
What are you working on? 

What if I forget your face, 
The sound of your laughter? 

Calling, calling, calling in the cold 
It'll never be the same, or go back like it was before 
Call me, call me, don't you know what that phone is for? 
Calling, calling calling....

Ba da da di, ba da da dum...

"Crocodile" 
Words & Music by Kela Parker 
(2022) 

Did you have me heart 
On a spire right from the start?
Well, I'm not one to fall
I feel too hard 
And I think too much 

When the surface breaks I fear love 
Will take me in one bite 
Like a crocodile 
And while I'm running I 
Split in half, stuck in two minds 
And endless fight 
Why can't I catch the wave
Always too soon, or a little late
Can't help but feel like prey 
I see you smile like a crocodile 

Look at all the ways 
I stand in place, I leave no trace
A hundred hungry ghosts at my heels 

When the surface breaks I fear love 
Will take me in one bite 
Like a crocodile 
And while I'm running I 
Split in half, stuck in two minds 
And endless fight 
Why can't I catch the wave
Always too soon, or a little late
Can't help but feel like prey 
I see you smile like a crocodile 

Hoped you'd be the one 
To break the spell, yeah I can tell
This all means to much to me 
I retreat 

"Dorothy"
Words & Music by Kela Parker 
(2022) 

Never knew what she wanted 
Who you gotta be to ask for something?
Stuck to family tradition
Always loved an Old Fashioned 

Her man fled to California
With the girl from his office 
She did what she could, each husband he took
A little more of her luster 

But you'd know her if you saw her
The arch in her brow
A little red in her hair 

Drowns into a dream 
And she's off somewhere 
No one can follow
Only wants to have fun 
A mama on the run 
It's nobody's fault 
And how it fills all the hollows
Raise a glass if you've got one
Yeah, the party don't stop once you meet 
Dorothy 
Lai la lai lai...

Her kids clean the bar 
As the dancers show up
Make believe'll getcha 
But you do what you've gotta 

And back home nobody sees you
Screaming suppers and doors slamming 
How could one lady 
Have so many faces 
Never know which one you'll get 

But you'd know her if you saw her
The arch in her brow
A little red in her hair 

Drowns into a dream 
And she's off somewhere 
No one can follow
Only wants to have fun 
A mama on the run 
It's nobody's fault 
And how it fills all the hollows
Raise a glass if you've got one
Yeah, the party don't stop once you meet 
Dorothy 
Lai la lai lai...

Gives 'em that golden smile 
She was a wild one, the owner of the Night Life 
She says, "Come on, take a little time 
Let's get what you want, and make it alright" 
She says, like a child
A sparkle in her eye
"Make a wish if you want 
And raise a glass if you've got one"

Drowns into a dream 
And she's off somewhere 
No one can follow
Only wants to have fun 
A mama on the run 
It's nobody's fault 
And how it fills all the hollows
Raise a glass if you've got one
Make a wish if you want 
And raise a glass if you've got one 
Make a wish if you want
And raise a glass if you've got one
Yeah, the party don't stop once you meet 
Dorothy 
Lai la lai lai...

"Be a Child" 
Words & Music by Kela Parker
(Version 2) 2021

Take me to another place 
Where there are no ancient things buried 
I could be a child, be a child 
Back in time 

Let me forget myself, just for once 
Get me outta my head, turn it off
I'm going back to the start 
Yeah I'm gonna begin again 

Break me down, dig me up
Gimme some of what you got 
Turning the corner now 
Or it's getting worse than I thought 

Let me forget myself, just for once 
Get me outta my head, turn it off
I'm going back to the start 
Yeah I'm gonna begin again
Get me free 

We sail in silence 
We sail back in time 
I could be a child, be a child 

"Be a Child" 
Words & Music by Kela Parker
(Version 1)
from 'The Dreamer & The Dream' (2018)

Be a child, be a child 
A master 
Now you retrieve 
This life again 
You forget yourself 
Hoo you forget yourself 

Let go your fear
The path laid clear 
Begin again 

Here again
Back in time 
A master 
Who forgot yourself 
Hoo you forget yourself 

The past retreats
Your path release
Begin again 

"Finally Found" 
Words & Music by Kela Parker
from 'The Dreamer & The Dream' (2018)

Can you hear the wind shaking 
Reality taking turns 
Do you fear the danger of staying 
In a world of your own making 
Are you waking or escaping? 

Upside down you look around 
(Your feet in air
You're gaining ground)
You're finally found 
You're finally found 
You're finally found 

See strangers faces and
Know not what they're saying 

(chorus) 

Feel the power of saying 
The world is what you make it 

And you know you're 
Finally found

"In Wild, In You" 
Words & Music by Kela Parker 
from 'The Dreamer & The Dream' (2018)

Step outside 
That achy dance 
The hanged man turns 
Around again 
Oh redeem, and oh reveal

Could it be something real?
Your fears place their bets

But they won't, no they won't 
Hold you up 
If first you forgive yourself 
No they won't 

In wild, in you
The fiction gone 
Let nature be the teacher now 

When all our debts been paid at last 
And all the jacks been played 

Then they won't, no they won't 
Hold you up
Once you forgive yourself 
No they won't, no they won't 
Hold you up 

Now the light is on the inside 
Now the light is on 

"A Tilt of the Restless Earth"
Words & Music by Kela Parker 
from 'The Dreamer & The Dream' (2018)

"Truth is a pathless land" 
               - J. Krishnamurti

What say the lines on my hands? 
Here I've worked all these years 
Where do we let our burdens rest? 

We traveled in reverse 
We sought a life of purpose 

See here, your fate begins to change 
With our thoughts we tip the scales 
The restless earth tilts and shakes 

We traveled in reverse 
We sought a life of purpose 

But oh, you never find it 
A pathless land supplies 
And oh it's all around you 
A pathless land we find 
We find -- 

Oh you never find it 
A pathless land supplies 
And oh it's all around you 
A pathless land we find 
We find, we find 

"Can't Cheat Fate" 
Words & Music by Kela Parker
from 'The Dreamer & The Dream' (2018)

Take me back in time 
Train of history 
Was it myth or memory
Those miles of opportunity? 

Fiction or faith
Well I don't know 
You have to trust 
The road you're on 
You have to leave 
Good enough alone 

But beware they say 
The past repeats 
Just try, try, try 
Try and cheat fate 

And it's no crime 
To dare the dream
Destiny calls 
For you and me 
And to all who come 
To set their roots 
Saying this is your 
America, too 

But beware they say 
The past repeats 
Just try, try, try 
Try and cheat fate 

Everything a circle, oh 
Everything to ash, oh 

Just beware, the past repeats 
They say beware, oh you know 
The past repeats 
You gotta beware the past repeats 
Well try, try, try it can't have me 
Soon things won't be the same 

Well say all you like, 
"The past repeats" 
Try, try, try, it can't have me 
I'm gonna show the past 
It can't have me