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Dre Kay Common Thread

by Dre-Kay

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Phillip Clark
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Phillip Clark Totally slipped by my radar for "Best of 2012," but this album absolutely is. Polished and marvelously executed, "Common Thread" is a must-own! Favorite track: Lazy Sunday.
Britt
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Britt Thanks so much to Black & Sexy TV for introducing me to Dre-Kay. He creates relaxing, soulful and meaningful sounds that round out my music collection. Favorite track: Quiet.
D.I.
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D.I. This is truly a great album! Shout out to Black & Sexy TV for putting me on to this! Favorite track: Feel Good Thang.
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1.
Inner Peace 02:44
all of our lives we'll be searching for something i only hope to find the inner peace inside days are going and i'm still dreaming times are hard but it's not seeming to sway my heart it beats so steady passion keeps is forward heading 'long the way i've tripped and fell destination, time will tell years will bring things far and near situations become clear peace is not a bright sunset although these visions help you get a picture of perfection near all that we want all that is here in the times we're living in the world ain't so forgiving years will bring things far and near situations become clear
2.
Quiet 01:22
peace and quiet it's so quiet i am quiet sound of quiet really quiet it's so, oh how lovely i was blazed and amazed in ways that had changed ways i think about the stillness of now wind steady blows through open windows sky so blue it pierces through you these days i stay alone don't want to pick up the phone or walk down the street to my house we can meet the sound of the calm power out in the storm life is every beat ride it out and let it be
3.
even if i don't reach the moon maybe i could rest amongst the stars there's a staff of melodies dancing where we are and even if i leave the past behind and stay in a present state of mind there's a chance that i might be still longing for tomorrow i never wanted to feel more than my heart could handle either way i felt my soul melting like a candle, yeah i'm growing hard but i'm still gentle down on my knees asking the Lord to have mercy on me sometimes while living by faith it can still hurt so deep if i could get it out my way maybe i'd find the road to destiny
4.
Lazy Sunday 03:45
take a rest beside me let me help you unwind, girl relax and feel just like you were at home close your eyes and dream about places that you always wanted to go but never found a way to get there we can have a lazy sunday we don't have to go any where so long as we can have each other we can lay around til monday let me hold you tightly touch your skin, feel the warmth of your body, close, next to mine put your phone on silent let's escape the world aroung us sweet music, tender loving stay the night we'll have a lovely day of that i can assure cuz when the mood is right love will feel so pure cancel your appointments it's our moment to discover all the things that we've been missing all this time make your self feel comfortable let your fears go i cook you food that feeds your mind your body and your soul
5.
you got that feel good thing that makes a brother leave the studio maybe go to a picture show take a ride on a different flight you got that feel good thing the kind that i like and i've been waiting for this feeling all my life these days it takes more than just a sexy walk to turn my head maybe from all these years in the game i've been around the finest ones in the world but it wasn't enough to keep me down and stay with the same you came to me in a different way didn't even know what to say time with you is on a different plane more than enough is what you got baby since you've been around i've felt a joy cause you have made a place where i can be myself it's not about the way you look and the stylish clothes you wear but i appreciate that you care ever since i was a young boy i've been thinking of love it was always central but never so simple i've got the experience to know just what i'm missin' that realness that fullness that feel good thing
6.
'm in a different kinda world a different kinda circumstance if you stood in my shoes you would understand that it ain't so easy for me, to just uproot my things and leave i know we been trying to keep this thing alive and i know it's been daunting waiting for me to come and i know what your thinking i'm just here messing about but i know that we're strong enough it's just gonna take some time, cuz i'm in a different kinda world a different kinda circumstance if you stood in my shoes you would understand that it ain't so easy for me, to just uproot my things and leave some years ago i was trippin out tried to find my way end up dipping out it was a breathe of fresh air to me just to find myself some sanity gen i was so young and so dumb so full of it but so humbled by the chance to live the people that i'd meet and the places i'd see i had a change in mind a change in time a change in my rhyme things started fallin in line all that i needed was front of me like i was living in peace and harmony here we are now where do we go from here i need a sign to come so it could be clear until that day comes i think i'll stay still keep it planted, follow my hearts will it's too late for me to turn around with so many things going down i don't ever want to let it go
7.
if you wanted to i could give to you all of me for all of you it's like trying to make pretend that you're not standing on the fence you keep holding back the real thing my inner voice is listening even when your skin is glistening sometimes the words you say reveal that something missing at times you ask me to be some things that i'd love to be if i knew for sure if you had intentions to see this all the way through girl, i'm a man of complexity i got my best days ahead of me but it wouldn't mean nothing without someone to share if you let go of your fears from the past i would give you live the rest of our days with a love that's made to last i wanna give you i could barely count or weigh the amount pounds of my heart, more than an ounce i tried to pronounce the language of love even willing to bounce to the land that you love start a village, grow a citadel a flourishing kingdom, hmmm, we did it well maybe i didn't tell what the meaning of all is the world that revolves is the common denominator the heartbreaker, the better half of me that's much greater do me a favor give me all not half if love takes work, don't make this a task or sip me like a flask, or genie in a bottle
8.
i wanna feel the love like i felt it when i was 13 when love was pure and never dirty heart racing fast but it felt slow it was strong but where did it all go she was my jr. high school sweetheart she lived in the gate i was small and little then but my status was great mom's taught music, she conducted the pit it was the middle of the eighties, i will never forget high yellow like venessa on cosby's always thought that i might be the one that she would choose one day but she was dealing with a dude in the ninth she was the one that i liked heart made me put up a fight i wanna no matter how far i come or how far i go i still remember my first time feeling a joy that my soul associates as essence of love it's like a thousand million kisses from the heavens above times are different and there's many more factors like keeping a home with debt over the raftors what used to easy ain't cutting the slack i really miss the innocens, wish i could have it all back it's like the more you live and the more you know the more it takes to sooth your soul i used to be moved by the simple smile rthe promise of love was worth a while evertime i'm in a new situation i always turn back to your station to remember the sweet sounds of love before it became the blues these days i feel jaded boarderline shady but my aim is to win gain back the realness communicate more be more open in dealings it's the only way i could rediscover the purness to the one's in my life now i ask forgiveness the man that you met now is going through change the man that you met now is trying to make a way through this maze long and winding so many dimensions so much on my mind hard to pay attention daydreamin' bout a time that is here and gone memories that i'll never forget, i wanna...
9.
Selam Selam 03:17
i looked hard but i seemed to have lost your address where can i find you are you happy tell me are you sad do you understand baby are you mad? selam lanchi, alointaye en damen alish abebaye selam selam i just wanna make peace with you i forgot nothing seems familiar trying to figure out but i'm so confused inside what tell me where you're hiding let me take a peek i miss you selam lanchi, alointhaye en damen alish abebaye felege tefa bin yadrashash esti negarign wedet la ginyesh azneshahal way tedesiteshal gebtoshal way cuss tesh tekreshal
10.
all eyes are on the motherland for so long she has been taken from fighting internally i've seen this on my jouney i try to tell my folks at home so much to be said and so much to be done i wanna help build it up it wasn't my design or plan to end up in this ancient land giving thanks regularly has made me see more clearly i want to make it feel like home so much to be said and so much to be done when i look out my window i see colorful futures waking up in the morning to the sound of the roosters every day is a blessing each moment a lesson so much love in the air ain't no need to be stressin but i hate to see them chasing a dream that ain't real with hearts like lions and soldiers you cain't kill in the cradle of man and a place of tomorrow there's whole lot of hope and no need for the sorrow people don't live for sympathy let's all proceed with empathy i am here making my home so much to be said and so much to be done
11.
music, love, roots and family are the things that keep us together Common Thread, we're connected and yes we're committed to making a difference today we've got dreams that are larger than the eyes can see we've got plans and desires to help humanity if one should fall we should try to lift them up if one is rising we all triumph thru the common thread we get strength and support through unity we've got ways and the means to build communities musika fiker roots betiseb common thread

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Producer Dre King and Singer/Songwiter/Producer K'alyn aka Kenny Allen are DRE KAY. The album DRE KAY - Common Thread was done over e-mail and wetransfer from Texas to Ethiopia to Texas to DC between September '11 and September '12.

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released October 15, 2012

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