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Singer-songwriter Kristen Rae Bowden delivers ground-shaking pop hooks with her seismic new single "Fault Lines".
Inspired by a breakup that took place on California’s scenic Highway 1, the poetic lyrics make a play on words involving lines of blame and slipping tectonic plates. “It’s all your fault,” she sings, with the heartfelt sting of an old wound remembered, while the chorus brings us into the quake-ridden landscape: “Living on a fault line / where nothing feels solid and you can’t tell time / why can’t you be mine?”
Sonically the track’s sleek, spacey textures are anchored by solid, rhythmic warmth reminiscent of 1990’s pop-rock, fittingly keeping the listener in the realm of memory. Sun-soaked electronic guitars blend with the moonlit qualities of a Fender Rhodes and Bowden’s reflective layered vocals.
“There are times in my life when I feel my surroundings mirroring my feelings, or vice versa,” she says. “This was a transitional time. I felt emotionally unsteady in a place where the earth literally shakes beneath your feet. It was symbolic, like I was on candid camera, starring in an arthouse movie someone forgot to tell me about.”
“Fault Lines” is profound, vibrational pop that will stand the test of time.
lyrics
“Fault Lines”
Music and Lyrics by Kristen Rae Bowden
It’s all your fault
We aren’t married or at all
A thing to be
It wasn’t me
You never asked
I know our youth was young but still
It’s now our past
And you’re not here
You were driving down the Highway 1
You got weed in your pocket, your head’s in the sun
You know that highway’s right up on the edge
Just like our relationship that we drove right off the ledge
Living on a fault line
Where nothing feels solid
And you can’t tell time
I’ve been living on a fault line
I’ve got a foot in the boat
And now I’m towing the line
Why can’t you be mine
(Why can’t you be mine)
When I got mad
I’d walk out that chain door you had
And up the hill
And it made me feel
Like an astronaut, the gravity
Untied the knots from you and me
’Til I was free
You were driving down the Highway 1
Oh you got weed in your pocket, your head’s in the sun
You know that highway’s right up on the edge
Just like our relationship that we drove right off the ledge
Living on a fault line
Where nothing feels solid
And you can’t tell time
I’ve been living on a fault line
I’ve got a foot in the boat
And now I’m towing your line
Why can’t you be mine
You can’t go back
A lesson learned with no respect
For all the tears
Over the years
We shed in private rooms
No camera to zoom
In on our humanness
I was driving down the Highway 1
I got weed in my pocket, my head’s in the sun
You know that I had to leave you all behind
‘Cause I’m living on a fault line
And I’m running out of sweet time
Yeah I’m living on a fault line
I’ve got a foot in the boat
And now I’m towing the line
Why can’t you be mine
(Why can’t you be mine)
It’s all your fault
credits
released July 31, 2023
“Fault Lines”
Music and Lyrics by Kristen Rae Bowden
Vocals, Keyboards: Kristen Rae Bowden
Guitars: Joe Lawlor
Drums, Synth Strings: Jeff Moxley
Bass: Dane Alderson
Recorded at Haunted Hollow in Charlottesville, VA
Mixed by Jeff Moxley
Mastered by Idania Valencia at Sterling Sound
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