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Kristie's Flying A Kite

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Kristie's Flying A Kite was a song I composed and recorded between my senior year of high school and freshman year of college. It was a silly story about a girl who got caught up in the wind by a kite. The text is at the bottom of this page.

Looking back, I would put this in a similar category as other juvenilia. I don't tend to write a lot of songs (meaning music with lyrics), and I don't tend to sing songs either, but this was a fun experience and I'm reasonably happy with how it came out. If I were to write it again today I would tweak the lyrics and re-record it with a more full, confident vocal performance.

Lyrics:

Time for a story...

She lived in a little old town made of hay,
With nothing to interest her mind that day,
So she went and she bought herself
A bag that looked like a kite.

Well she'd always liked shiny things
Like spoons and glassware and diamond rings,
But this little girl wasn't careful enough
Given she was decidedly light.

So the wind came and swept her away,
Lifted her in billows,
'til she started to float in the air
And drifted, drifted far away.

Well needless to say people far and near
Saw something strange in the stratosphere:
A scrawny girl clinging tight to a string?
Wait, it's Kristie's flying a kite!

Ooh, I never!

Meanwhile the poor little creature
Just kept drifting higher into the sky.
She daren't let go for the fear of death,
And I can imagine why.

So Kristie just kept traveling on,
Gliding on the moonlight,
While the wind just kept on blowing her
Farther, farther, far from home,
And farther, farther, farther, farther...

For the longest time no one heard a word.
Some thought it strange, others thought absurd,
And just when everyone gave up hope,
A peculiar thing had occurred.

Ever summer the rains would come
And a faraway rainbow would grace the land,
And who but Kristie should sit atop it
To casually wave her hand.

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