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Kerosene

by Callipolis

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Debut single “Kerosene” is the first window into the dream-city of Callipolis, a poetic and musical take on today’s mass spectacles and drained culture. Delivered in refined verses and mature vocals, fierce and worn out beats mix with lavish Chamber-Pop flavours in a struggle between reserve and intensity.

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Veins of frozen kerosene melting under starlight
My brain dissolves from morning guilt again yet another night
Heat invites another leap of faith for my liver, for my heart I’m always drained, always

I confess, I didn’t taste lighter fluid lips when I fell into you
I couldn’t feel my lungs inhale butane, truth is, I never felt my soul soaking in kerosene
But once the vapour hits the brain I’m always drained, always

Fading from the blaze, your floating face is all I see
‘til I forget your name, let me burn like kerosene
And as I waste away, torching my love in this craze
I’m always drained, always

Sore thirst, sour taste, your liquor’s too good to defy
Lost lust, headaches, coming back one at a time
And no holy spirit down my throat, no bottle of denial
can ever change that you’ve been mine

Call, call catastrophic drought
Ain’t no smoke, smoke, without narcoleptic fire
I’m always drained, always, but can never justify the times I drown my pain when the sun is coming down

Fading from the blaze, your floating face is all I see
‘til I forget your name, let me burn like kerosene
And as I waste away, torching my love in this craze
I’m always drained, always

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released November 2, 2021
Production, vocals, instruments: Timothée Botbol
Mix & Mastering: Nick Kendall

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Callipolis London, UK

Flirting with the conventional and mainstream, Callipolis is the Dystopian-Pop vision of Swiss singer-songwriter and multi- instrumentalist Timothée Botbol.
Delivered with a mature baritone voice, subtle messages of fictional propaganda from the imaginary City of Callipolis hide behind visual wonders and stories of heartbreak that almost always retract into sophistication and scepticism. ... more

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