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...from the Jaws
03:15
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We were lost at sea when suddenly
Giant tentacles reached up over the starboard bow
They were grabbing at everybody
Old Leviathan’s head parted the waves
Its tail still miles beneath
Someone’s overboard!
Captain overboard!
The monster, a mountainous shadow
Swam up and swallowed us whole
Launched into a deep and dark cave
We’re catapulted into open jaws
They were lined with ivory teeth
We sailed into its bowels
Where ghost ships harbour cast off philosophies
Living underneath in the belly of the beast
We wondered ‘Is this it?’ And ‘will we get out alive?’
We focused our resolve into a fiery blaze
And the monster, flaring its nostrils coughed us out
We separated, crashed into the waves!
Splashing through the dark, searching for a hand to hold onto
No anchor, no answer, except from the wind, oh-oh
And by a stroke of luck, I washed up on a shore, didn’t know where
I was a long way from home, and a step out of time
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2. |
Haunted
04:27
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I was falling through a dream but then I woke to your calling
But that was just a dream too, wasn’t it?
Because you’re just a ghost now and you haunt me through and through.
Now I will share your shackles ‘til I’m exorcised of you.
You’re standing in peripheral vision and liquid space.
You’re treading on some fragile secrets. Will you keep them safe?
Can you live on in my memory with its discriminating taste?
It shifts under the loneliness that’s playing with your shape.
I was weightless ‘til your absence pinned me down.
But that was yesterday; now I think I see your face in every crowd.
Can you really be a ghost now? I think you took a part of me with you.
And if you took me with you, am I a ghost now too?
Standing in peripheral vision and liquid space.
You’re treading on some fragile secrets. Will you keep them safe?
Can you live on in my memory with its discriminating taste?
It shifts under the loneliness that’s playing with your shape.
I was falling. Then I awoke.
Now I am haunted by your ghost.
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3. |
Blackfly
03:00
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Black fly touched my hand
travelling the hinterland
Holds my skin like it’s the edge of the world
Like and astronaut on the moon looking back at earth
Feeling like the loneliest creature in the galaxy
Black fly I won’t slap you away
No matter how many times you bite me
When the wind is low if you need a friend
I’ll be here for you
When we’re by the shore if you need a hand
I’ll share my life with you
Black fly some people won’t understand
The itch you bring isn’t your intention
But you gotta be on the watch for the knee-jerk impressions
You’re busy mining precious metals but I know you’re near
Even if I don’t hear you buzzing when you come around
Black fly I won’t slap you away
No matter how many times you bite me
When the wind is low if you need a friend
I’ll be here for you
When we’re by the shore if you need a hand
I’ll share my life with you
Black fly you weren’t born on the land
You were hatched in a stream and blown by the wind
Black fly not a sad nomad
Though this life seems short for your free spirit
The seconds stretch for hours beneath the fury of your wings
Black fly I won’t slap you away
No matter how many times you bite me
When the wind is low if you need a friend
I’ll be here for you
When we’re by the shore if you need a hand
I’ll share my life with you
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Must’ve been a lover in a past life ‘cause all my love’s gone dry
Will I see angels or devils on the day that I die?
I’ve been playing with some hard luck lately
And I don’t think it’s gonna end
I’ve been searching for a cure to save me
Running out of time to spend
Seems I’ve caught myself a sickness
It’s like a cancer of the soul
I had the hope of youth behind me
But now I’m growing old, yeah
Under a grey sky where the spirits meet
I’ll lay my guns down and I’ll find my sleep
No need for a grave to mark these bones of mine
Well I don’t think I’ll be coming home this time
No I don’t think I’ll be coming home this time
Travelled miles through the darkness
Just to find a patch of light
I’ve just an echo of a heartbeat
But I feel it pounding in the night
I’ve been feeling apathetic lately
It’s time to catch up with my ghosts
No compass but the stars above me
Am I anywhere close?
It’s funny how I miss the water
Now that the well has gone dry
I wish I had someone behind me
Who shared a tears-eyed goodbye
There was no one
Under a grey sky where the spirits meet
I’ll lay my guns down and I’ll find my sleep
No need for a grave to mark these bones of mine
Well I don’t think I’ll be coming home this time
No I don’t think I’ll be coming home this time
In those arms you hold the light and sound
A million miles to see it’s you I’ve found
If these legs threaten to turn around
I will fall and take up with the ground
And I don’t sleep
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5. |
Looking-glass Monsters
04:45
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I saw a stranger in the mirror
I don’t recognize myself some days
I wonder if I act my age
Even though I don’t think that it really matters anyway
On those days you feel like you’ve been
Caught in the wrong lane
Watching the other traffic go around you
The roads are crossing over, inside out
And no one’s gonna slow it down
Slow it down
I was digging through my dresser
I found a lot of tattered T-shirts
Oh why did I keep them for so long?
I clothe myself in figments of the past
On those days you feel like you’ve been
Caught in the wrong lane
Watching the other traffic go around you
The roads are crossing over, inside out
And non one’s gonna slow it down
Slow it down
I got a lot to say but I find it hard to relate to strangers sometimes
What language am I speaking anyway?
I’m feeling out of sync
But normal in my own way
In my own way
Are we afraid of monsters
The things we can’t contain
Not for what they are
But what we can’t explain
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6. |
Overgrowth
03:28
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What’cha gonna see when you open your eyes?
Has the world gone blind?
When the overgrowth brings out the best and the worst in us
What’cha gonna do when you gotta survive?
There’s no black or white
When the overgrowth brings out the best and the worst in us
I will find a way
You will find a way
We will find a way
We will find a way to survive
Who you gonna be when you open your mind?
We’ll all find ourselves in time
When the overgrowth brings out the best and the worst in us
I will find a way
You will find a way
We will find a way
We will find a way to survive
What’cha gonna see when you open your eyes?
When you open your eyes
Open your mind
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7. |
Mountains and Valleys
04:03
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Somebody get me to a hospital
I think I used up too much time
while I was doing the impossible
In the mountains of my mind
Tethered to the valleys
I caught a glimpse of your reality;
it seemed so far away
What if my vitals organs
were to fall out now and tumble to the ground?
I'm coming home
I was carried off by a nimbus cloud
It showered thoughts and airy tones
Ghostly vapors billowed over me
with answers to nobody's questions
Tethered to the valleys
I caught a glimpse of your reality;
it seemed so far away
What if my vitals organs
were to fall out now and tumble to the ground?
I'm coming home
Somebody get me to a hospital
I'm coming home
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8. |
Midnight Sea
03:26
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TV static skies behind closed eyes
I’m seeing stars on fire
Guard the last moments; the day’s worn thin
I’m moving on again
Whoa, whoa Where did the day go?
You were there right next to me
The next thing that I know
We’re swimming in a midnight
Swimming in a midnight sea
Yeah, we’re swimming in a midnight sea
It’s hard to retire to my restful visions
When I dream in angles in shapes
Momentary flashes of white on blackness
Embers of a fading light
Whoa, whoa Where did the day go?
You were there right next to me
The next thing that I know
We’re swimming in a midnight
Swimming in a midnight sea
Yeah, we’re swimming in a midnight sea
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Swimming in a midnight sea
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9. |
My Medusa
03:47
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I've been caught up in your catacombs
alone alone alone
I don't want it to feel like I've been getting in your hair;
sometimes I'm scared of snake bites
I try my best to step lightly
shield my body from your arrows
from your Gorgon gaze
When you're near I go blindly
'cause when I look into your eyes
it makes me turn to stone
Will you ease up on this pressure now?
Come on come on come on
And will you answer if I call to you
or will you follow in silence?
I try my best to step lightly
shield my body from your arrows
from your Gorgon gaze
When you're near I go blindly
'cause when I look into your eyes
it makes me turn to stone
My Medusa
My Medusa
When I look into your eyes
it makes me turn to stone
It's been awhile since I've been caught up in your maze
Alone come on come on
Would it relieve me if I sang a song...
a song about love?
I try my best to step lightly
shield my body from your arrows
from your Gorgon gaze
When you're near I go blindly
'cause when I look into your eyes
it makes me turn to stone
My Medusa
My Medusa
When I look into your eyes
it makes me turn to stone
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10. |
Fossils
04:15
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Forgotten youth, where are you sleeping?
Northern Lake Superior water dances with the shores
Footprints stolen by the tide, it’s reaching out for more
We swam with the waves, free of gravity’s embrace
Treasures waiting in the sand: walking sticks and shiny stones
There were secret tunnels underneath my high school
Brick and mortar mysteries, Cold War insecurities
They were beckoning beneath our feet.
Cautiously we tried to map the secret maze, flashlights shining through the dark
Fictive futures, nowhere lanes…
Come with us and
We’ll break the superficial rules
We won’t let our regrets fossilize
Will we be forever cool
or will we become dinosaur bones?
Will we be forever cool or will we become dinosaur bones?
What will we become?
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Sleepy and the Noise Ottawa, Ontario
Power trio composed of songwriter Christian Pasiak (vocals/guitar), Kira Montfort (drums) & Brian Dick (bass). Shortly after Brian joined in 2018, the debut album Fossils was laid to tape, featuring metaphor-rich songs about growing up in Canada, the fragility of memory, relationships, and health, and embracing a sense of humour & hope in what lies ahead and what's to become of us in trying times. ... more
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