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Alice Sofiasdiakonos Beth writes awesome music with awesomely geeky lyrics and she and her band rock the house when they perform!
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Catalyst six wisemen climbed a hill from which they never came back down & you were born to follow, by the sword or by the crown I will go along beside you when you stand before the stone but the change is yours to make just as the choice is yours alone five senses will deceive you, let your spirit be your guide they’ll thwart you & besiege you, so beset from every side I have felt the hopes that wither if you leave your task undone where so many failed before you must become our only one four seasons you can wait outside the wall inside your head the oaths that you have sworn will still persist as you play dead I can trace your fading footsteps, I can shield you from the snow but I cannot do this for you nor reveal all that I know three times you may fall down, sink lower than you’ve been before fight incremental battles in your incidental war I have seen you weigh your options, I have seen you choose the grave & my heart breaks for the dying of the self you could not save two children walked together through both joy & misery when nobody was looking they grew into you & me how I wish we could forswear this, had we world enough & time though to keep you from your path is to no longer call you mine one prophet for each era with one chance to set it right I risk you & I use you for you’re precious in my sight I’ll give more than I can offer, I will catch you when you fall for to save this place & time is to be Changer of it all no wise men climb a hill knowing they’ll never come back down but you were born to do so, by the sword or by the crown for to set us on a new course only you can be my tool though the faith in you I cling to makes me evermore your Fool six wisemen climbed a hill from which they never came back down & you were born to follow, by the sword or by the crown I will go along beside you when you stand before the stone but the change is yours to make just as the choice is yours alone six five four three two one Amber I am still your child though born in between hewn out of your hope built from your dreams how can I become what you want of me with my heart as a slave to the rioting sea? so I left my home swore not to turn back to plenty untold first taste the lack through tide after tide the whitecaps, the gale what was sunken, denied raises up its own sail but no one I’ve ever known had their own say waiting on water to show them the way & all that I feel is rage grown too large for the cage of the other side in- side of me (x4) now wrapped in the past my end has begun an insect in amber struggling & stunned but is this a shroud or my chrysalis force my way through the cracks my metamorphosis cause what did you really think this was about? your blood’s in me & I can’t get it out but I’m greater than this pain so I’ll rise up again as the waves break truth all over me (x4) I know I can’t change what’s happened to me it’s what I have been not who I’ll be so lay yourself bare right here at the start of a future that’s more than the sum of its parts come down to the crossroads & see it now clear we can go anywhere starting from here so take it in, rearrange ready to be the change now, so DROWN ME IN THE MEMORY (x12) The Stone Game take the stone within your hand, consider your next move your mind’s eye holds each possibility placed where it can do the most--familiar, so it seems, as the twist of fate that brought you here to me together we have moved the world so far outside its groove no one would dare deny we both have earned our rest but I cannot pretend that in your plans or in my dreams you’d make the choice of loving me the best (chorus) but I have had my chance to dance you to this new age be reminded how that binds me to your soul the part of me that’s frozen still regrets I am not chosen but I’ve seen her through your eyes, I know she makes you whole so many things are changing & so many things have changed & my everything for yours seems to me a fair exchange to know & be known fully: the only way I know to care so if you ask how I would love you, I don’t put a limit there place your heart within the stone when you can’t bear the pain just leave it there & calmly walk away deep beneath the leaves & moss, just waiting for my kiss to awaken, so it sleeps there since you strayed but there is still a love that twines both in & out your days it will return to you just when you think it lost I give it to you freely knowing I will forfeit this let no one say you only paid the cost (chorus) & you said “if life is what we make it if love is what we do you wore the mask, you faked it was it all a game to you? if love is what we’re making if life is all but through I’ll find my chance & take it if it’s all the same to you” if life is what we make it if love is what we do then all that is at stake came from the name I gave to you if love is what we’re making if life is all but through I’ll go or be mistaken by the change that came from you with my hand upon your heart, consider your next move I’m cradled in the warmth of where you lay taking back the silver thread that once had tied us tight for the first time, what comes next I couldn’t say the course of what I feel for you will never run so smooth as when you held me underneath a million stars between the past and future, wholly present in that night take comfort that these moments have been ours (chorus)
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child, be you wolf or pup this is the way that growing up is done it isn't right, it isn't fair to lose the ones who really care so young bent over by your needlepoint the future grips you by the joint you never thought your strength could feel so small your life will never be the same so cut your hair & change your name it's only a name, after all (chorus) so I'll see you across the water still the one & still my daughter still you grow & your list is getting shorter & it's you who gave the order for you know all men must die little boy or so they think you brought yourself right to the brink & held they thought they had you in their sway but never understood the way you felt so use your courage, use your mind & every thing your wits can find will serve you when your back's against the wall what you have lost can't be replaced so hide your story, hide your face it's only a face, after all (chorus) little girl, don't lose your head it's just the way that being dead should feel the vengeance that you swear you're due is not the only death that you will deal the face of every boy & girl is just a lie they tell the world as false as all the names by which you're called so let me reach you through the strife & teach you to lay down your life it's only a life, after all (chorus 2x) & when we meet the god of death we'll say it til our final breath (not today) (repeat)
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Naming 05:47
I am the flame that sparks the ember I am the thunder in the deep I am a broken tree upon a far hill a song to make minstrels weep I spoke to gods, I have loved blindly I set the fire to set you free I tread by moonlight where you won't pass by day you may have heard of me (chorus) the truth unbound I name what I've found but you don't believe me you don't believe me all things are named but all things may change you don't believe me you don't believe me for I was born to tread the world's stage where all you meet are merely players I'll take each word apart til I understand what lies beneath all the layers for I was born out of an anger more vast than speech, too dark to see & I will find him out in this world or his to bring it here to me (chorus) & so you've come to me to wonder just what I've come to tell today my sword is lost, my strength is fractured at best at least that's what you might say but I have come to know that power becomes what you ask it to be it's sleeping lightly in the name of the wind & you will hear from me (chorus) & all will know me the truth unbound I name what I've found you will believe me you will believe me my voice be raised & his name be razed you will believe me you will believe me you may have heard of me...
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Catalyst 04:20
six wisemen climbed a hill from which they never came back down & you were born to follow, by the sword or by the crown I will go along beside you when you stand before the stone but the change is yours to make just as the choice is yours alone five senses will deceive you, let your spirit be your guide they’ll thwart you & besiege you, so beset from every side I have felt the hopes that wither if you leave your task undone where so many failed before you must become our only one four seasons you can wait outside the wall inside your head the oaths that you have sworn will still persist as you play dead I can trace your fading footsteps, I can shield you from the snow but I cannot do this for you nor reveal all that I know three times you may fall down, sink lower than you’ve been before fight incremental battles in your incidental war I have seen you weigh your options, I have seen you choose the grave & my heart breaks for the dying of the self you could not save two children walked together through both joy & misery when nobody was looking they grew into you & me how I wish we could forswear this, had we world enough & time though to keep you from your path is to no longer call you mine one prophet for each era with one chance to set it right I risk you & I use you for you’re precious in my sight I’ll give more than I can offer, I will catch you when you fall for to save this place & time is to be Changer of it all no wise men climb a hill knowing they’ll never come back down but you were born to do so, by the sword or by the crown for to set us on a new course only you can be my tool though the faith in you I cling to makes me evermore your Fool six wisemen climbed a hill from which they never came back down & you were born to follow, by the sword or by the crown I will go along beside you when you stand before the stone but the change is yours to make just as the choice is yours alone six five four three two one
5.
Amber 03:52
I am still your child though born in between hewn out of your hope built from your dreams how can I become what you want of me with my heart as a slave to the rioting sea? so I left my home swore not to turn back to plenty untold first taste the lack through tide after tide the whitecaps, the gale what was sunken, denied raises up its own sail but no one I’ve ever known had their own say waiting on water to show them the way & all that I feel is rage grown too large for the cage of the other side in- side of me (x4) now wrapped in the past my end has begun an insect in amber struggling & stunned but is this a shroud or my chrysalis force my way through the cracks my metamorphosis cause what did you really think this was about? your blood’s in me & I can’t get it out but I’m greater than this pain so I’ll rise up again as the waves break truth all over me (x4) I know I can’t change what’s happened to me it’s what I have been not who I’ll be so lay yourself bare right here at the start of a future that’s more than the sum of its parts come down to the crossroads & see it now clear we can go anywhere starting from here so take it in, rearrange ready to be the change now, so DROWN ME IN THE MEMORY (x12)
6.
take the stone within your hand, consider your next move your mind’s eye holds each possibility placed where it can do the most--familiar, so it seems, as the twist of fate that brought you here to me together we have moved the world so far outside its groove no one would dare deny we both have earned our rest but I cannot pretend that in your plans or in my dreams you’d make the choice of loving me the best (chorus) but I have had my chance to dance you to this new age be reminded how that binds me to your soul the part of me that’s frozen still regrets I am not chosen but I’ve seen her through your eyes, I know she makes you whole so many things are changing & so many things have changed & my everything for yours seems to me a fair exchange to know & be known fully: the only way I know to care so if you ask how I would love you, I don’t put a limit there place your heart within the stone when you can’t bear the pain just leave it there & calmly walk away deep beneath the leaves & moss, just waiting for my kiss to awaken, so it sleeps there since you strayed but there is still a love that twines both in & out your days it will return to you just when you think it lost I give it to you freely knowing I will forfeit this let no one say you only paid the cost (chorus) & you said “if life is what we make it if love is what we do you wore the mask, you faked it was it all a game to you? if love is what we’re making if life is all but through I’ll find my chance & take it if it’s all the same to you” if life is what we make it if love is what we do then all that is at stake came from the name I gave to you if love is what we’re making if life is all but through I’ll go or be mistaken by the change that came from you with my hand upon your heart, consider your next move I’m cradled in the warmth of where you lay taking back the silver thread that once had tied us tight for the first time, what comes next I couldn’t say the course of what I feel for you will never run so smooth as when you held me underneath a million stars between the past and future, wholly present in that night take comfort that these moments have been ours (chorus)

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The album includes both the entire Fool's Trilogy as a single overlapping track (the way it is played live), and as three singles.

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released November 11, 2011

Produced, engineered, mixed, & mastered by Dave Stagner at Extraterrestrial Highway Studios, Minneapolis MN
Songs by Beth Kinderman/Beloved Porcupine Music, 2011
Cover photo by Dave Stagner

Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters are:
Elizabeth Greenberg: vocals, violin
Justin Hartley: drums, vocals
Beth Kinderman: vocals, acoustic guitar
Dave Stagner: electric guitar, bass, mellotron, drums, vocals

Also featuring:
Sarah Ravely: vocals on "Across The Water"
Kelly Reich: vocals on "Catalyst" & "Across The Water"

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Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters Minneapolis, Minnesota

If you like epic song cycles based upon multi-thousand-page fantasy novels, thought-provoking lyrics, violin solos, complex vocal harmonies, huge drums, and weird guitar effects, but you also think that more musicians should write songs about surviving the zombie apocalypse and attempting to sleep with video game characters, Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters are the band for you. ... more

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