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Dark Rum

from Who Am I ? by Alexia Chellun

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In circumstances similar to those of Keith Richards writing The Rolling Stones classic, “Satisfaction”, Chellun woke up, recorded what she thought was just an idea, fell back asleep, and woke up the next morning with a completed version of “Dark Rum” on her phone. Set aside while working on other ideas, Chellun rediscovered the recording a year later and began including it in her live shows, eventually recording “Dark Rum” four years later in London.

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I will dance a million dances on my last step of, walking on my bare worn feet, and knowing that I gave it all.

I will sing a million verses, until my last breathe out, my life flashing before my eyes

An expiration to my human ways, to my human world

What do you sing about now? Why don't you rock it out? Let the whole world sing it’s song. Why are you thinking? Get out the way and let it sing for you. Let it tell you things you never knew. Let it do the work. Just be there available, for it to pass, through you and out it really doesn’t matter. We have no control sometimes. Just gotta let it go sometimes. I now quit trying. What am I here for and why have I come to earth? And what is my time here? What is my time here? What is my time here for? What is my time here for? What is my time here for? What is, oh, I wonder I think. Do I stop do I just sing, oh. Am I meant for anything? Was it an accident, why am I here? Oh my planet’s far away, and I’ll go back there someday, but for now I’m here singing a song, with a steel string guitar. And a bottle of dark rum.

I will dance a million dances on my last step of, walking on my bare worn feet, and knowing that I gave it all.

I will sing a million verses, until my last breathe out, my life flashing before my eyes

An expiration to my human ways, to my human world

credits

from Who Am I ?, track released February 14, 2019
Recorded by Anthony Leung at The Crypt Studio, London

Mixed and mastered by Ken Rose at MYWarpedHalo Studios, Chicago Illinois USA

Produced by Alexia Chellun / Ken Rose

Cello by Hanna Marshall, London

Violin / Viola by Molly Thomas, Alabama USA

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Alexia Chellun UK

Throughout her song-writing, Chellun exhibits a unique melodic pop sensibility combined with lyrical themes that examine the human race, consciousness, and awareness. She makes an unarguable point when she says “Oneness has no genre.”

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