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Desire Line

by Kate Douglas

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With her first single "Desire Line," Kate Douglas explores the hypocrisy of loving someone with stranglehold strength.

"It's working as hard as you can to make another person stay in your life who perhaps isn't meant to be in your life," says Douglas. "I think of this as a fractal for other ways we cut desire lines through landscapes."

Desire lines, or desire paths, are trails of erosion made by human/animal shortcuts.

Adds Douglas, "There is a tension for me of how beautiful and tragic this strength of will is in the face of elements that are out of our control, whether we know it or not."

This is the first collaboration with producer Alexis Idarose Kesselman (Joji, TWICE, Becky G, Trevor Daniel) and features an all-femme production team, with mixing by Nashville-based artist Megan McCormick and mastering by Shelley Anderson of Black Lab Mastering (The Features, James Bear, Femke Weidema).

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One day you’re gonna thank me
For the house that I built
You’ll kiss all my fingers
And pull out all the splinters
With your teeth
And sing me to sleep
In the house that I built
It was empty until

I cut you out of wilderness
(My desire line)
I carved you out with tenderness
(My desire line)
I ripped you from the stone and vine
(My desire line)
I burned the forest and the pine
To make you mine

One day
You’ll abandon all those wild weeds
You’ll clean the dirt off of your skin
Pull me close to you and then
You’ll say you love me
Please say you love me

I cut you out of wilderness
(My desire line)
I carved you out with tenderness
(My desire line)
I ripped you from the stone and vine
(My desire line)
I burned the forest and the pine
To make you mine

If we want it bad enough
We can dig the garden up
If we want it bad enough
We can dig the garden up
If we want it bad enough
We can dig the garden up
We can dig the garden up
If we want it bad enough
If we want it bad enough
We can dig the garden up

Weak is how I found you
You’re getting weaker all the time
But I’m a real hard worker
I take what’s mine

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released July 1, 2022
Written & Performed by Kate Douglas

Produced by Alexis Idarose Kesselman

Mixed by Megan McCormick
Mastered by Shelly Anderson, Black Lab Mastering

Cover photo by Derek Anthony Welte
Creative direction by Sylver Wallace

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Kate Douglas New York, New York

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