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Private Time

by Sun Kin

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1.
It’s in the early evening hour When the bedroom starts to slip from sight I sit in darkness letting my eyes Take in the mercy of the window Have you Been waiting so long for the sun to fall Inside Are you Holding out for work that will make you feel Full of use My ivy hangs accusingly In the shadow of the laptop screen And greedy for the water I share When I refill from the filter Have you Been hiding inside my wildest dreams? That’s where I kept ya! Oh yeah you Beaming in my bed with the holy sheets Make me wild Cuz when I catch this look In the mirror Can’t help but see a way to live And though I’ve been meaning To water them all There’s a replacement life Deep in soil I’ll give you light so you’ll grow on me too Deep in the pool with our greatest features Have you been waiting inside my wildest dreams? That’s where I kept ya! Oh have you Been waiting so long for the sun to fall Inside Oh yeah you Smoke me out of caves I hide in Make me climb Oh yeah you Beaming in my bed with the holy sheets Make me wild
2.
In the back of Your boyfriend’s car You ask me to hold your breath On the window I draw it Till we can’t see the exits It's just the two of us Make most of me gone In the back of Your boyfriend’s car Our skin peels off the vinyl Repeating song One disc in the changer Grinding it down In the back of You, just like you asked The mirror shows each pore Behind my face, a steely frame We phased out for ages Before the two of us Would remain inside me In the back of Your boyfriend’s car You ask me to hold your breath On the window I draw it Till we can’t see the exits It's just the two of us Make most of me gone
3.
IDKY 04:32
Lost my mind I don't know why I can't be blinded yet I don't know why Lost my drive Its information Through a portal on my desk That was my time Took my time Everybody told me you should make your money work And I ignored them I had a vision Until you told me When it’s the date of the show Just simply act like you know It’s okay to be admired And while you’re sharing your screen You must pretend like you have seen The confidence of a paycheck Cuz I killed some time In a meeting room Where I micro-slept and sang The psalm of weekend Brace myself! On my standing desk To embrace the beacon When will I be found out Will I be found out? This is the date of the show Just simply act like you know It’s okay to be admired And while you’re sharing your screen You must pretend like you have seen The confidence of a paycheck With every click comes a price You could go visit their eyes It’s okay to be admired But I will not once be stained By any gaze or compliment Except the truth of a paycheck
4.
And when the sadness goes away There’ll never be another one to take its place On the day Dad taught you how to swim He tied on anchors ‘round your ankles with a tale “Hold in the pressure, make that sale” When the roads are flushed by the sea (When the roads are flushed by the sea) I don’t ever wanna pretend (ya ya ya) Anymore That I don’t feel this way (I don’t feel this way) When our bones sink in Interred with the shale and blue jeans (When the roads are flushed by the sea) I’ll still feel so light in your arms And when the sadness goes away There’ll never be another one to take its place You cornered me on your way up Your pressure passes down through me to pneumatic brakes When the roads are flushed by the sea (When the roads are flushed by the sea) I don’t ever wanna pretend (ya ya ya) Anymore That I don’t feel this way (I don’t feel this way) When our bones sink in Interred with the shale and blue jeans (When the roads are flushed by the sea) I’ll still feel so light in your arms When the roads are flushed by the sea (When the roads are flushed by the sea) I don’t ever wanna pretend (ya ya ya) Anymore That I don’t feel this way (I don’t feel this way) When our bones sink in Interred with the shale and blue jeans I’ll still feel so light in your arms (When the roads are flushed by the sea)
5.
It takes some time For us to know The extent of the damage How am I supposed to be Responsible? It takes some time For us to know The extent of the damage How have I been pouring rain When I can't keep the pieces in hand? I felt it once I felt it once I felt it once and never again It takes some time For us to know The extent of the damage
6.
Life without losing Life without losing anything Is not the life I could live Without losing my mind I won’t take curry for any kid to see at lunch Then I’ll be fine Assimilation is the way I found Chameleonic is how I sound It’s time to lose it: I found my own voice now You’ve got to meet the body You’ve got to meet the body I hope I write this song before too late Cuz there’s a note that I want us to take— I’ll hold my mouth open for you to shout opinions Rest your head upon my chest and then I’ll feel safe Tell me why Tell me why I’ve got to Make up a past time Give my worth a place So one day I’ll understand When you say “hometown”, it’s This brown and bearded face For pigs to mistake I’ve got a number Who’s gonna take it? I’ve gotta fly soon I’ve got a suitcase For me to board the plane I must unfurl the borders in me I’ve got a monster I’ve got a secret I’m pretty sure I’ll have to leave If I’m not smiling I stole the right voice I’ve got a stage name He’s going to remind me He’s going to remind me He’s compromised me We’re compromised My dad begs me to shave So pigs won’t mistake I’ve got a number Do you wanna see it I’ve gotta fly soon I’ll drop my suitcase For us to overcome We’ve gotta seize the means of coping I’ve got a monster I’ve got a secret I’m pretty sure I’ll have to leave If I don't work for free I stole the right voice
7.
Moon-Crane 04:18
Whether I live by the things I say Or what I exhale to keep you here breathing the air with me You fell beneath Why won’t you speak? Please say something Bobby, please I know that you wanted to die and I got in the way Though I wasn’t there to keep you company I could tell you never got to sleep so well Holding hands from cars and planes I spill the words They aren't enough Battery dies You know how to love and tried to pass it down but I don’t know And I must be dreaming life without you When I wake up sinking into the sheets A budding iris starving for the sun’s light I could only point the mirror so long A century of satellites Phone towers and transatlantic wires And you just wanted to dim the light Breathe in the perfume of the choking smoke Whether I live by the things I say Or what I exhale to keep you here breathing the air with me You fell beneath Why won’t you speak? Please say something Bobby, please I know that you wanted to die and I got in the way Though I wasn’t there to keep you company I could tell you never got to sleep so well Holding hands from cars and planes I spill the words They aren't enough Battery dies You know how to love and tried to pass it down but I don’t know
8.
Gold Hoops 03:07

about

Private Time is Sun Kin's 3rd full-length album. It was recorded between November 2018 and July 2019 with an array of guest appearances by independent musicians from around the East Bay.

Many of the stories in Private Time ponder the weight of tradition, the way societal narratives about “how things have always been” can erase a life of possibility. Pressure from Asian immigrant families to accumulate riches, produce children, and cement monogamous partnerships seem ludicrous when stacked up against a world literally falling into the sea in “Small Gestures.”

Like the Man de la Mancha tilting at photocopiers, the narrator of “IDKY” steals time from an office job to make grandiose, anachronistic art in the face of rampant profiteering. In “Boyfriend’s Car,” a codependent couple crashes when both partners rest the weight of their trauma on each other and forget to watch the road.

credits

released January 17, 2020

Kabir Kumar - vocals, guitars, synths, bass (on 6, 8), drums & drum programming, percussion, samples
Jake Kopulsky - drum kit, percussion
Geoff Saba - bass (on 1, 3, 7), guitars, synths, vocals, electric vibraphone, shakuhachi
Max Langensiepen - guitars
Tyler English - bass (on 2, 4, 5), guitar, pedal steel
Phil Di Leo - Rhodes, Grand, organ, synths
Sarah Carpenter - vocals (on 1, 3)
Little Arcs (Hannah Levy, Derek Sup, Zach Giberson) - vocals (on 3, 5)
Marissa Dietz (Sucker Crush) - cello, vocals (on 1, 6)
Sasha Reynolds (Fieldress) - vocals (on 2)
Miguel Gallego - lead guitar (on 4)
Michael Orange Julius - glockenspiel
Adam Hirsch - tenor saxophone

Engineered by Adam Hirsch at Tiny Telephone in Oakland, CA
And by Geoff Saba at Itinerant Home Recordings in Oakland, CA
And by Kabir Kumar in my bedroom
Mixed by Geoff Saba
Mastered by TW Walsh

Photo by Ginger Fierstein
Design by Kabir Kumar & Ana Stoyanova (@rockrosee)

Special thanks to my parents, my Nana, Miguel Gallego, Jacob Kay, Leah Stone, Sarah Goldfarb, Kat Vidt, Styles Munson, Dan Kolpin, Ken Herman, Josh Ginsberg, Sam Anderson, Erik Krasner, Maddy Guzmán, Craig Heed, Chris Daddio, Sivan Lioncub and everyone else who gave me feedback and support through this experience.

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Kabir Kumar,
born in Bombay, broadcasting
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