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SHKN [Single]

by Paper Citizen

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about

Love is Love.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

SHKN was written after I decided (yet again) to try online dating. My experiences with modern matchmaking apps were bittersweet, with its fair share of great and not so great dates. Still, this mobile option presented yours truly with more opportunities than my reclusive, daily routine of writing and playing music 🙃

You know the feeling you get when you’ve met someone you really like, but you don’t wanna give it all away so you keep it to yourself? It’s exciting yet almost unbearable! After a month of dating, my partner said to me, “You make me feel like a shaken bottle of soda!”.

Inspired by her, and our love for late 90s pop/rock melodies and instrumentation, SHKN throws in a modern twist with its lyrics, harmonies layered with bright textures, biting electric guitars and an irresistible summer-y head-bop. It expresses the emotions and feelings you feel when there’s undeniable chemistry between two people, and how wonderful it is to fall in love.

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lyrics

S H K N

I took a leap of faith
With a glowing face
for a very first date
Now you come as you please
Like i’ve got something to give

We’re right at the start
We swear we’ll never ever part
Headstrong, we move along
Evenly, over the odds

Standing on my feet, falling asleep
While my sugar sweet’s dancing to the beat

You make me feel like a shkn’
Shkn’ bottle of soda
You really got me breakin’
Breakin’ all my walls down

Cut right to the chase
If you may
There’s not a minute left to waste
I’m on the edge to fight
The power shortage from left to right

Spell it out for you
with opposable thumbs
You are the only one for me
You’re everything I’ve dreamed of
You got me

Standing on my feet, falling asleep
While my sugar sweet’s dancing to the beat

You make me feel like a shkn’
Shkn’ bottle of soda
You really got me breakin’
Breakin’ all of my walls down

And if all our thoughts
They overflow
And crystalize like secrets
All we fight for won’t get old
If liberty is what unfolds
There’s everything you need to know now
everything you need to know

You make me feel like a shkn’
Shkn’ bottle of soda
You really got me breakin’
Breakin’ all of my walls down

credits

released June 27, 2018
Songwriter: Claire Gohst
Produced by: Claire Gohst & Colin Lester Fleming
Engineer & Mix Engineer: Colin Lester Fleming
Assistant Engineer: James Bridges, Caitlyn Bongiovi
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

Vocals, Guitars, Moog, Piano: Claire Gohst
Bass: Filipe Antunes
Drums: Eric Derwallis
Rhodes, Omnichord: Abram Lembono

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Paper Citizen Los Angeles, California

once beantown now angeleno sprouted indie-rock bringing you crisp vocals, spacious guitars, organic beats and smooth keys.'

Paper Citizen is an LA-based indie rock project by songwriter and producer, Claire Gohst.

The project performs regularly as a trio in California, with Sarah Midori on Drums and Jake Furgason Cate on Bass.
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