»KAYAM is the musical duo of siblings Kim and Mike Rauss, playing what they affectionately label Falafel Pop: a fusion of the genres they enjoy, a near obsession for chickpeas and much love.

Would you tell I am stronger if I walked out to the water
The tides they rise and fall so slowly as I watch the earth below me
Makes me dizzy makes me wonder how to always face the thunder
Catch the darkness in the moment
I will not be running

I open my eyes to the wonders of what I couldn’t see
And I open my wide eyes and look to the lighthouse in front of me
I open my eyes to the hunger of what I want to be

Now I walked out to the water can you see that I am stronger
Felt the earth dissolve me as I watch the tides grow slowly
Do you always face the thunder when you’re dizzy when you wonder
Catch the darkness in the moment
Sometimes I’ll be running

I open my eyes to the wonders of what I couldn’t see
And I open my wide eyes and look to the lighthouse in front of me
I open my eyes to the hunger of what I want to be

Am I dreaming or is this how it’s got to be
Feels so long now that I keep repeating all of my old ways

Lately I’ve been dreaming heavy throughout the day
And I know now what it’s like drifting between reality

Live a long long life
Trying to find my way through in a world gone mad
I don’t wait and I don’t wanna
Live a long long life
Trying to find my way through in a world gone mad
It’s all I can do

I breathe deeply
A state in which time is a distant memory
Around me images pass
A strong mysterious presence of the past
Into the world across the landscape
By the river of the desert the sky would change shape
My arms were spreading
Long enough to embrace the change within me
And to walk in my own pace
Out of the city
Into another Story
Emerge from a stream like a silence of a dream
And now I’m walking through the ruins that I already know
And with eyes closed I continue to grow
I continue to grow

Cheap Diesel take us along
In crystal ships on the ways to Rome
No one here speaks English but we’ve got 10 shows
Playing empty venues that nobody knows
Drinking moonlit water from a bottle
Never thought that it would be so gobble
Gobble smobble smackedi bobble
Bibedi babedi boop
I’m gonna eat some soup
The lights go down
In other worlds fairies crowned
And tricksters rolling up and down

We were gone
Not too long
Crossing roads for 11 days
A coffee Cup
We’re out of luck
Emotion runs in 11 ways

Cold nights open roads of morning
Cold morning open nights of dawning
Jingle Jangle the cosmo is turning
And we’ve been going through some times of learning
It’s hazy it’s mazy it’s hard to know
In these hazy waves of shaky shwaves
And all of the days will come and then go
Just like a rhythm I never recall
(I don’t know what I’m talking about but that’s ok)

A gazing room
A witches broom
Come and go in 11 ways
And by the sea
We stopped for tea
Crossing roads for 11 days

I didn’t know you were the one who would ever put stones in my way
And now I’m writing this song cause I’ve got something to say

Yeah my mind is so tired
Yet I know that I’m thinking clearly right now
And my days are so wired
Yet I know that I keep them sorted right now
And my eyes are so tired
Yet I can see that there’s no use for these names
And my mind is so tired
Why do you keep on playing these games?

I didn’t know I didn’t I didn’t know..

I didn’t know you were the one
You were the one
Putting stones in my way
Why’d you do that
Well that was pretty uncool
Not cool at all
But it just might be OK
Hmmm maybe you’re right
Turned out the best anyway
It’s true what you say
Well isn’t life kind of weird
It’s pretty damn weird
We’re all just floating through space
Yeah what the shmaushmau
Maybe we’re all just cucumbers (crunchy crunch)
Lets end this song
But why do you keep on playing these games

Saw the Moon
Silver Moon
Fallen Moon

In the darkest night I see your wounds
Cuts in my conscious mind to always bloom

Where to go
How to know

Now speak to me you know that I see you
Tell me words that will me make me feel you
The locks on my windows are nothing but self-doubt
Oh father please don’t shout
For my heart is healing and my lungs are breathing
Marks on my skin never leaving
My thoughts go racing my mind is chasing
Got this invisible feeling that nothing has meaning
And even though some patterns might heal in time
I’m walking through it moving along the line
Moving along the line

This ain’t exactly the place
Where I feel I should be
Feeling a bit out of place
Gotta move on but where to
Van life is cold and sleep is hard to get
This might just all be a test
But what do the omens say
Kimbo tell me about your journey

Days pass in minutes racing
Residing in silence listening
And all the omens around me hiding
And shadows inside me darken
And all the ways before me open
Now tell me about you

Been blessed by a mermaid queen
Who’s come to visit me

Been blessed by a whale king
From the ocean

She brings compassion and love
And makes it easy to see

He brings reflections and love
And he’s a home to me

(Two Owls having a conversation in our garden)
And all the ways before me open

Would you tell I am stronger if I walked out to the water
The tides they rise and fall so slowly as I watch the earth below me
Makes me dizzy makes me wonder how to always face the thunder
Catch the darkness in the moment
I will not be running

I open my eyes to the wonders of what I couldn’t see
And I open my wide eyes and look to the lighthouse in front of me
I open my eyes to the hunger of what I want to be

Now I walked out to the water can you see that I am stronger
Felt the earth dissolve me as I watch the tides grow slowly
Do you always face the thunder when you’re dizzy when you wonder
Catch the darkness in the moment
Sometimes I’ll be running

I open my eyes to the wonders of what I couldn’t see
And I open my wide eyes and look to the lighthouse in front of me
I open my eyes to the hunger of what I want to be

On the banks of the river
In the dark of the night
Cold winds of winter
Echo in flight

The places you‘ll go
The faces you‘ll know

An endless mind, an endless horizon
The night skies glowing slowly with the first light
Smoke in the sky, a prayer was still alive

And the moon is shining
Shining so bright
My thoughts go silent
I listen to the night

Can you feel me now
Can you hear me now

Yeah it’s an endless dream
And it’s going round and round

But I got this beat to lay down on
You got to dig it to get down on it

And I know I’m gonna see the river
I’m not gonna hide, I’m not gonna hide
Yeah I know I’m gonna see the river
Just got to decide, just got to decide
Yeah I know I’m gonna be the river
I’m not gonna hide, I’m not gonna hide

So let’s jump in and swim towards the light

I’m gonna lay me down
Shake down in Byron town

ואת הנהר אני יודע שאראה בקרוב
זה עוד לא הסוף

In the darkest night, rolling clouds below the sky
Let alone, let go, will you ever let me go

Behind hills of gold, behind the feelings never told
Let alone, let go, will you ever let me go

Watching as we fall at midnight
Watching as we fall through light

Now I can say, I know it‘s right to walk alone
I can no longer fight for something that’s out of sight

The withering sound of my sleep’s got my mind travelling too deep
It comes it goes, steadily it flows, it knows, it shows
All from which you wanted to grow

And then the figures slip through the door in features that I adore
In colours of reds and blues and all of your different hues
And tell me darling

Is there anything I could do, but to walk on, figure my truth
Heal all the pain that we‘ve both been through
The colours remain and it‘s all I can see,
Is this the way it was meant to be

And oh, we‘re falling down
And I, I‘m losing my ground
I wish I could find
Peace in my mind
The way seems long
But feels so strong

Climbing the mountain
Crawling and dancing
And rivers behind us
Valleys surround us
And oceans beneath us
Mountains surround our way

I know we
Can still grow
And will you
Let it show
In the valleys of rocks and stone
Along the rivers, miles from home

Even though I may find the answers to all thats untold
Stories in my mind keep me questioning my life
And all you need is time, only you know best what your soul is seeking
One day you will arrive and you'll know there's a place you can call your own

I will, I will, I will

I will step up a little bit further
Move up a little bit higher
With each day I move to my ground
Step up a little further
Move up a little bit higher
Settle in what i found

Even though I might be able to find the answers to all thats untold
Stories in my mind keep me from sleeping well tonight
And all you need is time, only you know best what your soul is seeking
One day you will arrive and you'll know there's a place you can call your home

I will, I will, I will

I will step up a little bit further
Move up a little bit higher
With each day I move to my ground
Step up a little further
Move up a little bit higher
With each day I move to my ground
With each day closer to my ground

אל המעיין
מעבר לים
מעבר לזמן
אל צוקי מדבר
לא נשאר דבר
השקט נבחר
שם אמצא אותי
ושוב אחזור
אמצא מקום ללא שיגעון
אני כאן סובלני
ומתבונן בי
אני כאן סבלני
ומתבונן עם כל כולי

Walking nowhere
My restless thoughts disappear
From sand to snow :)
From high to low

And overhead eagles roam
Across the sky going home
An ancient song comes to my ear
A distant dream soon to appear

Windows stand open
Doors have been broken
Where do they want to go
To lakes and woods and snow

I had to leave, I couldn’t stay no more
As the mist, it joined us to the shore

As I’m crossing the ocean, I see that I’m almost there
And I can’t look back, I’ll try I wont compare

‘Cause I know, I know we always thought
And you know, you know we always fought
For this time to last
But it had to pass
And now the sound begins
And its all within

Papa words you’ve said have gone so deep
Caught up in these tides, I cannot sleep
Clouds covering the sky
I see you, your tearless cry
I open my eyes, nobody is home