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Let Me Out

from Gone Beyond by Caitlin Kraus

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The oldest song on this album, written all the way back in Austin, TX. I wrote this after watching 1970 Czech film Valerie & Her Week of Wonders (based on Vítězslav Nezval's 1935 novel). The imagery in the movie inspired the music and lyrics... caught between darkness and light, reverie and nightmare, coming of age amidst the push and pull of love, sex, occult and religion.

Climb up the ladder, holding light
What would you steal from me tonight?
Behind a mask, wrapped in your cloak
Untie my hair and hold me close
Just hold me close

And when I’m running through a field
Some strange demon at my heels
Something watches from its tower
Drops of blood on every flower
On every flower

Oh, I’ll leave my dress behind
As they preach from up on high
Bury the letter they’ll never see
Our limbs stretched out against a tree

Burning quietly at the stake
Tie me up and I will wake
Wings are beating against my chest
Leave me now like all the rest
For all the rest

Skin so pale in a room of white
Blood on my teeth, I’m kept alive
Kiss me now, ignore their cries
You’ve turned golden before my eyes
In my eyes

Oh, I’ll leave my dress behind
As they preach from up on high
Bury the letter they’ll never see
Our limbs stretched out against a tree

So let me in, let me out
Let me in, let me out
Do not give your secret out
Do not give your secret out

credits

from Gone Beyond, released October 22, 2023
Caitlin Kraus - lead vocals, guitar
Matt Box - bass guitar
Mark "Pokey" Hellenberg - drums/percussion
Bernie Nau - keyboard
Kyle Slemmer - baritone saxophone

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Caitlin Kraus Athens, Ohio

Originally from Columbus, OH, Caitlin Kraus is a singer and songwriter living in Athens, OH. Kraus has performed her music solo and with a band over the past decade. Her music is melodic, largely lyric-based, and falls within indie-folk/alternative genres. ... more

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