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You who escaped in the face of life, for you just any old life, created in a moment of ego.
Your escape championed the paths my soul would take, generating - deeply - the constant need and curiosity to look in the mirror; for me today, a mirror obscure.
I rode the crest of time without you and without she who confided in hope.
You who promised love to a barren, sterile mother,
you who built me a house of card that could not bear the inevitable storm,
you who gambled the odds with a fate for you turned to great glory.
Too early to think, too late to love the outcome of an error. Where were you father, when I was killed, once again, because of you! Where did you run to while I was born of that random womb.

Your big, strong hands, your deep and reassuring eyes, your masterful arms, were not for me, nor even for her.
For me, just the memory of a steel-cold world where my words echoed with the speed of thought,
for me, only a surrogate father bought half price on a day of a woman’s on-going weakness.
No privilege for the defenseless creature who paid the never-ending debts of conscience.
Is all this is for me, father, only for me?
Today, for you father there's no more a glorious life to live,
there’s the insistent gaze of the triumphant woman,
there’s an unsteady hand on your face,
there’s my soul’s unuttered word.
For you the blood and tears of who has never screamed your name.
Only for you, father, all this is for you!
Look at me, father, look at me now if you can, tell me what you see,
do not look down, do not dare utter a word, do not run away, looking back; it's time to walk now, looking ahead.
Now, it's time to ask me my name and who I am, it’s time to shine on that dark mirror.
You who ran away in the face of life, for you, just any old life.
My life.
Ask for forgiveness, father, forgiveness!

(Kathya West)

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from "THERE INSIDE THE DARK", track released January 6, 2017
Kathya West / concept, lyrics, vocals, live vocal fx
Danilo Gallo / acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, bass VI, bass
Riccardo Tosi / drums, live electronics

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Kathya West Milan, Italy

I was born in Milan from an Italian mother and american father.

I died on the same day.

Art was born with me, an impulse, a survival instinct, an expressive need like music.
I am mainly a musician.

I play the voice.

My main source of inspiration is everything that moves me and puts in disharmony my emotions, my impulses that express themselves and elevate in every artistic form. ... more

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