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The Sounds of Sleep

by Animal Flag

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Just when you think that you're alright Just when you think you've found escape in night From the recesses of your head she will appear As if you needed a reminder As if the ear drums of your memory heard that she had begun to slip away from you Be gone from my dreams Even sleep will not bid you leave from the heart break of your daily scenes So you'll kick and scream and fight And you'll be scared as hell to sleep at night And from your bed you'll let out a cry Be gone from my dreams
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Our temples turn inside us every time, we collide The fixtures of our hearts become capsized You're an overture, you are gentle on my mind You're a sacred song that echos through my night But you are not invincible And I know that may be hard to swallow But you are not invincible And your armor proves itself too hallow Our bodies melt together like a scar, like scar As I make my home inside your lonely arms You are overcast, you are gentle with your lies, with your lies You're a trembling hand and you make me feel alive
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Come outside my dear, it's time to say goodbye To everything you've known inside this life You were a different person around this time last night So I will sympathize with the lack of light You didn't see it coming, well no one ever does So don't take it too bad, you're not the only one But now as you grow older, there's one thing you can see You will live your life in uncertainty You will always wonder So sleep well now and see your whole life undone Your life undone
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Human Being 04:56
BOY: I am a human being And I will let you down And everything I say Will come right back around Because I am a human being And I will let you down And everything I say Will find it's way back around But if this should come as some surprise That I became less gentle with the time That I would lose my perfect shine My angelic stance inside your eyes Then I hope you can learn to forgive There is no hero where you thought I lived I'm man and nothing more than this and Perfection's weight, I cannot lift GIRL: I'd like to think you tried your best To understand my loneliness And I used to think you were someone That I could love and maybe even trust But recently I've lost my faith And the hope I once saw in your face The truth has become clear to me Your reservations make you weak, they make you weak BOY & GIRL: Because I am a human being And I will let you down And everything I say Will come right back around BOY: I see you in everything No matter where I go, what song I sing GIRL: You have lived inside of me Filling the void of what could never be BOY: Well time and space were never kind To lovers bound by this design GIRL: And the words we use to speak our minds Well this language fails at best when tried BOY & GIRL: Every time, every time, every time, every time
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Trap of Time 04:46
So harmless at first You were golden from birth A new breath off the lips of God sent to earth To a mother and father, so grateful, so thankful Too speechless for words Oh how long they waited to gaze in the eyes of their beautiful girl You were finally there Every memory is just a picture of something we've lost in the trap of time, the paradigm, in the shifts that take us by surprise So harmless at first How you wish to return to the earliest days of your life on this earth No potential to hurt No possible burns Only kind hearted words But now innocence turns She has left you, your drunk off the poisons of earth And you beg she returns You beg, you beg she returns Every memory is just a picture of something we've lost in the trap of time, the paradigm, in the shifts that take us by surprise Can you see the life behind you when you close your eyes at night Leave it behind you
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The swan song of your youth, it goes like this That every claim of love you hear comes from insincere lips The swan song of your youth, it goes like this That any sense of hope you feel, is just your mind's dirty trick
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DNA 04:53
There you were, at the bottom of yourself You could see every single little thing You were awake you were breathing And looking up on everything you had become You saw the outline of your love Their DNA intertwined with yours to make a person so easy to fake In your vision of the future do you see those shapeless features Coming together for a reason? Do you see them filling in With some extraordinary color? One that could replace every other With a steady sense of purpose A focus too intense to break As it was burning bright and lovely did it remind you of that old dream? Or was it looking like a savior? Like it was hanging there for you Or was it more of an exception? One more reason to be helpless? One more bed for you to lie in? One more thing to drag along One more thing to drag along
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In your head do you hear voices? And are they telling you you're choice less? And are they binding you with noises? Are they sending you to bed? Are they blacking out the windows With the darkest things that you know? And do they flash behind your eyelids things that you'd rather forget? Things that you'd rather forget And then you saw what you thought you lost Just standing there with a single tear And every seam of every snuggle dream Came undone all at once As you slept and as the grass grew wet Something inside of you turned into something new So that when you woke all the words you spoke Would be echoes of that place you loved that place you loved These are the sounds of sleep Listen as they set you free The midnight sun underneath your feet There are the sounds of sleep Listen as they make you see All you've lost in that 6 year dream These are the sounds of sleep A haunted latter in the city streets Angels climbing, lucid needs These are the sounds of sleep Listen as they set you free You will become all you see See what you're doing See what you've done See where your going See who you've loved
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Last Words 03:15
The last words from your mouth Shook the rafters of this broken home and house They ricocheted off the walls And spent the next year tumbling through the spring and fall And in my ears I hear them still As steady as the land that you left when you told me That some day I'd understand You'd think I'd know by now What you meant by all those tattered sounds and vowels But even still they drift in me Every ounce of all that they could mean And when your wondering is through All your restless nights will look back at you and smile To show you that you're fine And she will kiss you through the night And hold you by the hand To remind you of a love that you'll just have to understand.
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released June 25, 2013

This digital release contains a PDF booklet of original paintings and illustrations by Christian Craig to accompany the music.

Personnel:
Kelsey Byrne: voice (1, 6)
Billy Centenaro: voice, synth (6, 9)
Paige Chaplin: voice (5, 7, 9, 10)
Matthew Machu: didgeridoo (1)
Capen Evans: voice (3, 4)
Theo Metz: vibraphone (9)
Mike Nevin: sonic advising
Collin Pastore: pedal steel (7, 10)
Matthew Politoski: voice, guitar, synth bass, drums, percussion, keyboards, piano, mandolin, banjo, effects pedals, drum programming, sampling
Kailey Shaffer: violin (9)
Yichun Teng: trombone (9)
Jharis Yokley: drums (9)
Jackson Wargo: voice (9)

Written and produced by Matthew Politoski
Mixed and mastered by Billy Centenaro
Original artwork by Christian Craig

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