Biography:
Gabriel Kahane (born 1981 in Venice Beach, California) is an American composer and singer-songwriter currently living in New York City.
Born at home in 1981 (midwife, Venice Beach), singer, pianist, and composer Kahane was reared in medium-sized cities on both coasts of the continental United States by a psychologist mother (relational) and concert pianist father (unaffiliated). While a convenient and tidy psychological reading might suggest that his hybrid of blistering
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Verse 1]
C#m B F#
Those neighbor kids, they meant no harm.
C#m B F#
Came home from church to find a three-alarm.
C#m B F#
To my sister’s, she gave us a key.
C#m B F#
Three years, one room, two kids and me.
[Chorus]
B11 F#
But he would lift my burden—
E C#m
All the power, the comfort
In his name.
B11 F#
Is that so much to ask—
E C#m
To believe and be unashamed?
[Verse 2]
C#m B F# E
Stay after church, for friends of friends of Bill.
C#m B F# E
I tell the story of my son, his need, the pain to kill.
C#m B F# E
How I saved all the money, a box in a drawer.
C#m B F# E
How I’d give it to him; knew what it was for.
[Chorus]
B11 F#
But he would lift my burden—
E C#m
All the power, the comfort
In his name.
B11 F#
Is that so much to ask—
E C#m
To believe and be unashamed?
[Bridge]
E
The visits get harder.
Ab E
He lowers his eyes, and every time
C#m
They get darker.
B F#
I show him the pictures drawn by his kid.
E C#m F#
How do you learn you can smother someone with your love?
E C#m F#
Isn’t loving at all in this world hard enough?
C#m B11 F#m
Those neighbor kids, they meant no harm.
C#m B F#
Those neighbor kids, they meant no harm.
C#m B F#
Came home from church to find a three-alarm.
C#m B F#
To my sister’s, she gave us a key.
C#m B F#
Three years, one room, two kids and me.
[Chorus]
B11 F#
But he would lift my burden—
E C#m
All the power, the comfort
In his name.
B11 F#
Is that so much to ask—
E C#m
To believe and be unashamed?
[Verse 2]
C#m B F# E
Stay after church, for friends of friends of Bill.
C#m B F# E
I tell the story of my son, his need, the pain to kill.
C#m B F# E
How I saved all the money, a box in a drawer.
C#m B F# E
How I’d give it to him; knew what it was for.
[Chorus]
B11 F#
But he would lift my burden—
E C#m
All the power, the comfort
In his name.
B11 F#
Is that so much to ask—
E C#m
To believe and be unashamed?
[Bridge]
E
The visits get harder.
Ab E
He lowers his eyes, and every time
C#m
They get darker.
B F#
I show him the pictures drawn by his kid.
E C#m F#
How do you learn you can smother someone with your love?
E C#m F#
Isn’t loving at all in this world hard enough?
C#m B11 F#m
Those neighbor kids, they meant no harm.
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