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# Ken Yates - "A Perfect Dive"
- URL: https://www.analogue.io/recommendations/ken-yates-a-perfect-dive/
- Published: 2026-03-02T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-02T22:08:29.000Z
- Description: A compelling outtake from the Total Cinema sessions has us glad Ken Yates went back to the cutting-room floor.
- Author: Analogue
- Tags: Recommendations, Ken Yates, #Import 2026-11-12 21:02, #color-orange, #blend-soft-light

**Album:** Ken Yates - "A Perfect Dive" · **Artist:** Ken Yates

We were already big fans of Ken Yates' *Total Cinema*, his 2025 LP at which he arrived with the sort of creative clarity he'd always been striving for. We [spoke with Yates](https://www.analogue.io/interviews/ken-yates) about it in detail after it was released, but he recently came back to those sessions with the debut of a new single, "Perfect Dive," an outtake that he says was impossible fit into the sequence at the time. As good as *Total Cinema* is, it's hard to imagine how a song as compelling as this was left on the cutting-room floor.

The lyrics to "Perfect Dive" by Ken Yates:

*I remember the beaches with the birds eating out of your hand*

*And your dog was in the back of your Civic Sedan* 
*Looking at yourself in the rearview mirror* 
*And you grew up in a small town until you were nine* 
*And you swore you wouldn’t end up there when you die* 
*Rubbing your eyes so the road gets clearer* 
*Chasing your waking life* 
*You’re never alone* 
*First to arrive and the last to go home* 
*Shape of a perfect dive* 
*You swim through the hall* 
*You break through the ice* 
*Then you’re turning your fall* 
*Into a perfect dive* 
*I remember you knew the whole place like a drink in your hand* 
*And you gave us all a look and a lay of the land* 
*As if no one came here well before you* 
*And the creatures in the richer part of the town* 
*Selling ego like there’s none left going around* 
*And the concrete made sure nothing was living* 
*Chasing your waking life* 
*You’re never alone* 
*First to arrive and the last to go home* 
*Shape of a perfect dive* 
*You swim through the hall* 
*You break through the ice* 
*Then you’re turning your fall* 
*Into a perfect dive* 
*It’s a beautiful night to be unsatisfied* 
*It’s a beautiful night to be unsatisfied* 
*It’s a beautiful night to be* 
*Chasing your waking life* 
*You’re never alone* 
*First to arrive and the last to go home* 
*Shape of a perfect dive* 
*You swim through the hall* 
*You break through the ice* 
*Then you’re turning your fall* 
*Into a perfect dive*

**VISIT:** [**Ken Yates**](https://www.kenyates.com/?ref=analogue.io)