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Lullaby for Dreaming
05:00
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Hypnopompic
04:31
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images floating all around
without a source, without a sound
familiar but somehow strange
i feel no pain, no temperature change
switching like channels
on the tv
where am i going?
where will it take me?
like paper, mountains start to fold
buildings crumble, i feel the cold
reaching out to touch your hand with mine
will you let me stay this time?
light starts to shine through
wrap all around me
tossing and turning
like a ship out at sea
see for the first time
in many a year
i cannot go home
but i can’t stay here
eyes like a kaleidoscope
i’d like a window to the soul
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3. |
Phosphenes
02:06
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4. |
Lullaby for Mourning
02:58
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another old blanket
that keeps me from the day
a thousand memories
slowly start to slip away
flipping through channels
window shopping lives
how will i decide
when static’s all i see?
a day to stumble through
a day to throw away
bloodstain on my j–l
another diamond day
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5. |
Somewhere Else By Now
03:59
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[catia]
it’s been seven years, come and gone
did you see things clearer
when you stood on an icy pond?
i’m looking in a mirror, shattered on the lawn
[will]
it’s been seven years…
where have you been this whole time?
your guess is as good as mine [both]
[will]
now i ask with trembling lips of blue
as you try the door key
“your eyes cannot lie if you want them to.
tell me the story that’s haunting you”
what’s been haunting you? [catia]
where have you been this whole time? [will]
[both]
your guess is as good as mine
i thought i would have been somewhere else by now
i still remember counting buds in the overstory view [will]
sometimes i wonder what it was that pulled me away from you [both]
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6. |
The Faces You Find
05:02
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take a puff of mine, dear
and open up your eyes
the faces that you find around here
are part of a disguise
well i don’t want to argue
anymore than you wanna do
but it is what i know is for the best
you let me take care of the rest
feels like a simulation
so you’re searching for a sign
you’re not somebody else’s creation
just don’t lose your mind
so you don’t want to feel alone?
then there’s one thing you should have known
it’s that it’s all a part of the same deal
you know that it’s not just how you feel
will i ever walk from you?
will i see it on the news?
wonder why i feel so blue…
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7. |
Footprints in the Snow
03:44
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you called me, gave me a fright
i flew right up on the same night
they took me where the car was found
i took one look and i turned around
you left us
faster than the speed of sound
couldn’t you hear all the times i called?
all the times i called?
you said that your life felt so hollow
til it filled like footprints in the snow
you left in a race against time
i feel like i’m so far behind
i saw you on the tv screen
the pic i took we were seventeen
that old dream never goes away
i know we’ll get back there someday
i heard your voice on the phone
i’m never alone
never answered all the times i called
all the times i called
you said that your life felt so hollow
til it filled like footprints in the snow
you left in a race against time
i guess i’m not so far behind
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8. |
Breath Becomes Air
05:09
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i took a gram or two crushed in my cup
squeezed the juice, then stirred it up
waited a bit for reactions to start
then made my way to the graveyard
well i didn’t notice from my spot on the path
there’s a stone in the grass behind the others
a “wife and a mother”, a “father and a son”
all of them named except one
the grass is long and the stone it is worn
and they didn’t inscribe the year she was born
“lady friend of dr. clements”
who died in 1856?
tell me why it’s breaking my heart
tell me why i’m falling apart
how often have i passed on by
tell me why
on 48th and baltimore
they found your sandals strewn about the floor
don’t know your story, don’t know your last name
where you are going or from where you came
every time i close my eyes
i see all the worlds inside
every moment of every day
i can’t seem to get this feeling away
tell me why it’s breaking my heart
tell me why i’m falling apart
how often have i passed on by
tell me why
once when your breath suddenly becomes air
and once when we forget you were ever there
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9. |
The Sea!
04:42
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in the deepest part of the sea
eternal punishment for you and me
fucked up by the pressure and lack of light
stare into the abyss of endless night
running from the fate of certain death
we stop on the mountain to catch our breath
looking up we spot the sea, the sea
temporarily we are free
as i was walking home, what did i see?
a little bird, staring at me
glowing at night with its feathers of white
saying everything’s gonna be alright
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10. |
Lying at Night
02:28
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lying at night like i always do
wondering why i feel so blue when
tonight’s the night i might see you
lying at night like i always do
where do our memories go in the end?
how do i live and not pretend
i’m not writing a letter that i’ll never send?
where do our memories go in the end?
where do we go when we go to bed?
who puts those dreams inside of our head?
sailing away from that nameless dread
where do we go when we go to bed?
things will get better in a year or two
one day we’ll find we made it through
by imagining things that won’t come true
lying at night like i always do
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11. |
Drifting
03:58
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Hypnic Jerks
by SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
can listen over and over and never get tired of it. always discovering something new.
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I hear that dog barking every day! (demos from august 2023)
by goodbye catia
catia sings on DOAWB. keep an eye out for more catia!
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amazing songwriting
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