I've Been Kicking Myself

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Video Team:
Director & Editor - Vicki Van Chau
Director of Photography & Colour Correction - Philip Earl Bowen
Camera Operators - Kara Artym & Alexis Moar

Composition: Mark Limacher, Caity Gyorgy
Lyrics: Caity Gyorgy
Arranged and conducted by Mark Limacher

Orchestra:

Drums: Nathaniel Chiang
Bass: Jonathan Wielebnowski
Piano: Mark Limacher

Violin 1: Gen Micheletti, Edmund Chung, Jeremy Gabbert, Jeongah Choi, Danielle Greene, Isaac Willocks

Violin 2: Theresa Lane, Adriana Lebedovich, Lidia Lee, Diane Lane, Laurent Grillet-Kim, Peter Blake

Viola: Marcin Swoboda, Alisa Klebanov, Jesse Morrison, Jeremy Bauman

Cello: Josué Valdepeñas, Clare Bradford, Kathleen De Caen, Dave Morrissey

Bass: Patrick Staples

Trombone: Carsten Rubeling, Kris Leslie, Nikki McCaslin, Dave Reid

Trumpet: Joel Gray, Samantha Whelan-Kotkas, Rich Scholz

Woodwinds: Emily Phernambucq, Cedric Blary, Dustyn Richardson, Brett McDonald, Dan Davis, Aidan Dugan

Horn: Jennifer Frank, Doug Umana, Maxwell Stein

Recording and mixing engineer: Graham Lessard
Assistant engineer: Eric Cinnamon
Mastering engineer: Reuben Ghose
Recorded at the National Music Centre in Calgary, AB, Canada on March 27th and April 7th, 2025
Label: La Reserve

Producers: Caity Gyorgy, Mark Limacher, Graham Lessard

Orchestra contracted by: Alisa Klebanov and Mark Limacher

This project wouldn’t be possible without the financial help of many granting organizations.

Thank you to FACTOR. #FACTORFunded @factorcanada

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Province of Alberta through Alberta Foundation for the Arts. This project has been assisted by the Province of Alberta through Alberta Foundation for the Arts, its funding agency.

Lyrics:
I’ve been kicking myself
But it’s time that I start kicking you
If you hadn’t been so cunning
I wouldn’t be rerunning
All the thoughts about us two

I’ve been blaming myself
But it’s time that I start blaming you
If you hadn’t been so charming
I wouldn’t be disarming
This explosive point of view

You came into my life
And watered down my bliss
And drew the curtains back
Revealing all of that and this
And now my peachy life is slightly bruised
I’m enlightened but I’m surely not amused

I’ve been fooling myself
But it’s time that I start fooling you
If you hadn’t been so tempting
I wouldn’t be preempting
All these plans to start anew
You cunning, charming, fool
What’s a girl to do?