I gave you hope
when darkness reigned
But like a candle when you hold me, be wary of my flame
Don’t let me go to long, cause when the wax is gone
I’ll burn you to the bone
I’ll burn you to the bone
So that’s my asterisk
A simple warning like “don’t remove the tag”
And babe, if I’m a mixed bag,
The least you can do is come through,
When it’s you who can light my way
Don’t you tell me I’m impossible
Nobody ever said loving me would be easy
Don’t you know that I’m unstoppable
Nobody ever said loving me would be easy
Nobody ever said loving me would be easy
If you’re defensive or angry
I’ll try to stay out of your face
But baby I won’t take a back seat
Because you’ve decided it’s time to put me in my place
Don’t you tell me I’m impossible
Nobody ever said loving me would be easy
Don’t you know that I’m unstoppable
Nobody ever said loving me would be easy
Nobody ever said loving me would be easy
Nobody ever said loving me would be easy
I’ll burn you to the bone
I’ll burn you to the bone
To The Bone – (Mayes/Lents)
- Lead Vocal, Background Vocals – Kristin Lents
- Piano, Background Vocals – Pete Lents
- Guitars – James Nelson
- Fretted Bass – John Shaughnessy
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
- Produced by Pete Lents and Phil Hall
Engineered by Phil Hall at 3in1Vision Studios
Kristin Lents
Vocals
Kristin started singing at a young age, performing with her Grandmother at church and continued to sing competitively throughout high school. Life happened and she left music altogether for nearly 20 years. She reentered the music world behind the scenes on Brookstonebards Twitch show and soon found herself in front of the camera as a co-host/performer.
James Nelson
Guitar
James is a Charlotte based guitarist who plays in several local original Progressive Metal/Rock bands, which include The Reticent and Ozai. Both band’s music can be found on Spotify and Apple Music. When he’s not playing original music, he shares the stage with Pete in Abacab: The Music of Genesis and also plays in the local 90’s Rock cover band, Putney’s End. James also has more than a decade of music education experience and co-owns Giant Spoon Productions with Ozai bassist, Cole Millward.
John Shaughnessy
Fretted Bass master
Matthew Hedrick
Drummer
For three decades, Matthew has created and performed original music from California to his native North Carolina. In addition to various studio projects, Matthew currently shares drumming duties with Pete Lents in Abacab, The Music of Genesis: abacabtmog.com
photo by James Eric Laczkowski
Songwriter, musician, actor, director, author, and professional builder of creative playgrounds. Art was trained as a lawyer, taught himself to code, and has worked as an iOS architect and developer since closing his law firm. He asked Pete to come to Chicago to record a song they wrote 20 years ago, and this happened.
Pete Lents is the owner of Brookstone Bards Entertainment, and performs in several shows a week on his popular Twitch channel. Keyboardist. Vocalist. Entertainer. Composer. Audio Engineer. Voice Actor. CEO. Nerd. Housewife.
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Mission Statement
It’s time for a new chapter. Art & Pete are bringing great artists together to make great art. For too long, commerce has been a perverse master of creativity, bending it to the will of an imaginary “demographic”. Pasting labels on it, like a trope is somehow scientific. But genre is as imaginary as race, given import according to whom it excludes.
We are post-genre.
And culture is limited to who can afford it. ASCAP sues bars for playing unlicensed songs; meanwhile, we clearly want to share and sample and create— to be a part of the things we enjoy. To that end, we are licensing our songs for covers and samples.
We have two requests: 1) attribute Art & Pete; 2) share the final product with us.
And one demand: Be fair. If you make a bunch of money using something we create, be fair.
Underground radio stations, same deal.
Big-ass corporate radio stations (et. al.) should accept the same license with the same caveats, and then reach out to us. You are in it for the money, so you’re going to share it.
The rest of us, I think, are in it to play. To dance. To draw. To sing. You know, childish things.