»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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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So let’s jump in and swim towards the light

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

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ואת הנהר אני יודע שאראה בקרוב
זה עוד לא הסוף

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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Even though I may find the answers to all that’s untold
Stories in my mind keep me questioning my life

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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

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I will, I will, I will

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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’ve found

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Even though I might be able to find the answers to all that’s untold
Stories in my mind keep me from sleeping well tonight

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

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

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To the spring
Beyond the ocean
Beyond time
To desert cliffs
Nothing remains
The silence is chosen
There I will find myself
And return again
I’ll find a place without insanity
I am patient here
And observe my self
I am patient here
And observe my whole self

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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

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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

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