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Play Through the Pain

from Growing Pains by Christine Kammerer

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Play Through the Pain, is the song that adresses the anxiety that comes from being consumed by pain yet trying to work through it. About facing your demons and releasing them by doing so. I wrote this at a time, where I could only breathe properly when I sang.

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Play through the pain
Text and music by Christine Kammerer

I can’t seem to get my head around this
I’m blinded by pain
Can’t find my way through this darkness
I worked so hard, how come nothing changed
Just set me on fire, bleed my soul,
bleed it all out, just let me go

Cause I still feel like that little girl
Who struggled to hide her tears
Feeling it was her against the world
I try to soothe her now, but I can’t calm those fears

So I, I Play through the pain
Feeling my breathing healing
I wanna chase the demons away
Though only reflection frees them

You know, I’ve been fighting all my life
My arms are getting tired
My throat is sore from screaming out
But the quietness it’s so filled with doubt

So, I’m grey matter roaming the world of living
How I envy your courage to feel
Trembling and frightened we all open up
Heart strangled, the struggle revealed
I play through the pain
Watch my reflection bleeding
I wanna chase the demons away
But right now it’s too dark to see them

My chest tightens up
With every word I dare to speak
I am told when they’re uttered
I would finally feel relief
But it’s hard to speak up when you don’t really listen,
You talk so damn much, but the actions they are missing

I play through the pain
Bringing them out, revealing
Scorned memories of yesterday
Bleeding their own dark meaning
So I, I Play through the pain
Feeling my breathing healing
Knowing they’re not my fate
I finally dare to free them

credits

from Growing Pains, track released May 8, 2020
Jens Jefsen (bass)
Christine Kammerer (vocal and piano)
Stephan Kammerer (saxophone)
Adam Ordonez (drums)

(c) 2020 Christine Kammerer

Recorded and mixed by Kim Rasmussen // Audio Smith Productions
Mastered by David Elberling
Photo by Qvist Foto

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Christine Kammerer Scotland, UK

Christine Kammerer, a critically acclaimed, award-nominated artist, is known for her versatile talents as a singer, multi- instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer. In June 2024 her debut album “Echoes of North” will be released.

Kammerer’s music is a symphonic fusion of Nordic and Celtic folk soundscapes. A universe which moves from tales of human nature to stories of folklore and myth. ... more

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