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Echo by Kevin Abstract

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Kevin Abstract

Echo

Release date: 18th November 2016

From American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story
Track 15
2:36
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About This Track

'Echo' opens with Kevin Abstract's voice caught in a loop of futility. Staring at the sky, howling at the moon, none of it will solve what's broken or bring back what's gone. The song documents a kind of spiralling, where small surrenders accumulate: cigarettes, then pot again, the fear of becoming someone he's watched self-destruct. There's a rawness to how he names the anxiety, the loneliness, the sense of time running out before the story ends. The track builds around absence and flight. A bad son leaves home because he has nowhere else to go, and the repetition hardens into something like resignation. When Abstract asks you to look into his eyes and tell him what you find, it's an invitation that feels almost desperate, a moment of exposure before the final questions collapse into each other: when did it all fall down, and where do you run to now? The song sits in that gap between movement and paralysis, between the need to escape and the knowledge that running solves nothing.

"Echo" is a single by Kevin Abstract, from the album American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story, released 18th November 2016. The track is 2:36 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Kevin Abstract.

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Lyrics

Echo

Staring at the sky ain't gon' fix my problem
Staring at the sky ain't gon' fix my problem
Howling at the moon ain't gon' bring you back
Howling at the moon ain't gon' bring you back
Staring at the sky ain't gon' fix my problem
Staring at the sky ain't gon' fix my problem
Howling at the moon ain't gon' bring you back
Howling at the moon ain't gon' bring you back

Started smoking cigarettes
I even picked up pot again
Coke ain't touch my nose yet
I'm afraid I'll be just like my friend
I'm afraid I ain't gon' have no friends
Oh my god, when do my story end?
Tell me God, when do my story end?
I'm locked outside of the DeLorean

He was a bad son
He was a bad son
He was a bad son
He was a bad son
So he left home, so he left home
He had to run, yeah
He had to run, yeah
He had to run, yeah
He had to run, yeah
Nowhere to go, nowhere to go

You can take a look into my eyes
You can take a look into my eyes
Go ahead and tell me what you find
You can take a look into my eyes
You can take a look into my eyes
You can take a look into my eyes
Tell me what you find
Go ahead and tell me what you find

When did it all fall down?
Where you going now?
When did it all fall down?
Where you going now?
When did it all fall down?
Where do you run to now?
When did it all come down?
Where do you run to now?
Where do you run to now?
Where do you run to now?
Where do you run to now?
Where do you run to now?

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Track details

From American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story

2:362016Single
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American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story
American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story
Kevin Abstract
18th November 2016
Track number
15
Release year
2016
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  4. 4Friendship
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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Albert Gordon, Jeff Kleinman, Jesse®, Kevin Abstract, Merlyn Wood, Michael Uzowuru, Romil Hemnani
    Writer
    Kevin Abstract, William Wood (4)
    Producer
    Albert Gordon, Romil Hemnani
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    Albert Gordon (2), Jeff Kleinman (4), Michael Uzowuru, Romil Hemnani
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    Romil Hemnani, Roy Blair, Roy Mabie
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    Albert Gordon
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    Joba, Russell Boring
    Production Manager (Management)
    Caitlin Lopilato
    Video Colorist
    Tyler Mitchell
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    Callum Shaw
    Video Editor
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    Video Focus Puller
    Adam Simon (US)
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