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Sophie's Dream

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Sophie's Dream 1 02:24
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time leans forward on a steep slope i hold you here, i have no hope i could raise you up i could drag you down four years cleaning up after this town and what do you get? strangers in the mirror and a cigarette it's a hard line but it's not mine, it's a razor blade hiding in your pocket with the flowers i made when i breathed your air and pushed your eyelids closed with the utmost care and you saw cages forming everywhere frost on the windows when you're awake creeps alongside each step you take down the hallway it's a hard fought struggle for the light of day i'm the lucky one i can see the sun they say it only comes round once a year i dry your face and i wipe your tears but is that enough? i pray twice a day for the dream to let up but we're stuck inside just you and me and nothing left to hide i'm a train wreck, you only see invisible things the devil with a battle scar and two broken wings he is stylish he could heal our wounds with an extra wish he is valiant he has love to spare you saw cages forming everywhere
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The Vines 04:03
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in a far search for comfort you stepped cross the line now you need all your warmth round you most of the time so you pull it from starlight or from the divine and weave it together in towering vines you peek out from the window and glimpse the black sky on a spiraling planet where ghosts come to die and you step down the stairs and you find that you fly and with roots on your tongue you are wanting to cry and we keep to ourselves our bodies are vessels, they sit on the shelf we bleed every drop with the seeds we have sewn but look at how high the vines have now grown and water flows into the ocean back home your true friend lies back on his bed all alone he lived in an old house that he did not own the walls were all crumbling, vines grew on the stones the ground is all red and your soul falls away your body lies useless, a price that you pay your nightmares come chasing you down in the day but the vines will all hold them in shining display and we keep to ourselves our bodies are vessels, they sit on the shelf we bleed every drop with the seeds we have sewn but look at how high the vines have now grown
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The Firework Maker's Daughter pt. 1 01:43
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when the dam gave way in north l.a. there were people crying on the silver screen semi-nightly, parents fighting then it's christmas eve, and i'm thirteen in the alley frightened animals huddle round and spill their souls in swirling mixtures, hidden pictures poisonous, mechanical you opt for the life of a slave draw pictures on the walls of the caves lay down your arms, i don't mean you any harm the sun rises and sets again on the grave cancerous this malady eats its way through you and me getting thinner, every winter, physical comedy craven monsters in the shadows preying on our piety when you hear shouting after midnight, you'll come to strike a deal with me you'll opt for the life of a slave draw pictures on the walls of the cave fall from my arms, i don't mean you any harm the sun rises and sets again on the grave
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The Firework Maker's Daughter pt. 2 02:02
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headlights coming through the mist big green field, emptiness thick brown patch of upturned soil underneath, electric coil all i want is to be a ghost and have this place to haunt ghosts don't feel ghosts can wait forever for their wounds to heal fire crackles in the woods gypsy pilgrims up to no good locking patterns carved in bark everyone trying to make their mark all that's clear six more weeks until i disappear and when i'm gone i'll watch the leaves spiral in the dusky dawn feet soaked in the morning dew look at my arm, see through this is not quite what i planned it's not something i understand all i know is the universe will open when i go tilt your head just right and you can see me flicker in the evening light
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In the Way of the Train Light 01:09
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hey smile, in the halo light bet your hopes it'll work out right i dreamt i was hanging from a high bridge i saw you underneath on a pilgrimage you looked beaten down, i felt tired and old ten men died for fool's gold dim signals flashing through barbed wire nothing to do but step right into the fire and pray maybe i'll see you again someday i remember riding in the back of the car they had you chained down, cause you'd gone too far black clouds in your line of view memories pushing pulling right through you your eyes were talkin bout boarding a train the dashboard said there was nothing left to gain if i could move time around in my hands i would set you adrift in a search for some strange land and pray maybe i'll see you again someday
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Prometheus and Io 01:54
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down on the metro line line color maps are hard to follow lost amongst the passengers stand prometheus and io fanning flames with credit cards they won't get home until tomorrow she will write a note for him and he will fill it up with sorrow nine vultures on the rail were sitting patience is their field of study he is drawing maps for her while they are scoping out her body she is keeping watch for him but as he works she sees them nodding his vision must be failing him but she can see what they are plotting mercury with brittle bones is headed west for some big meeting as he passes through the stop he can't believe what he is seeing io in a ragged dress prometheus is barely breathing just to be a gentleman he goes and offers them a greeting by the time he's said farewell he's on the blower to the cops it don't seem right but then again this is the justice of the gods prometheus and io hopping subway trains like escape pods weary and beleaguered convicts no sir, i don't like their odds no sir, i don't like their odds
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Film Noir 01:53
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we put everything underground paper graveyard lost and found prophetic visions blue light as holiday meets holy night we don't need applause your fingers on my shoulder doing espionage and i'm too far gone to even ask when everybody started wearing a mask all take comfort in what they own on a floating dock far off from home scratched up records, film noir i wanna end up where you are providence can't understand my hand meets up with your hand sacred kingdom golden walls children running through the halls it's new to them they see us now as we saw us then and the past hasn't died inside your head fingers spidered on the shattered bed i wouldn't give this up for anything but i can't say what the sun will bring photo collages, film noir i wanna end up where you are
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Hollowy Eyes 03:18
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you with the shiver and the hollowy eyes make me an offer, make me a surprise i saw your girlfriend, she was hanging around i saw your boyfriend on the streets downtown you smile cold, but your eyes are kind make me believe in your beautiful mind i saw you in the room when they were all gone it's hard oh it's hard but i know you're the one so what's the catch? you with the walking by, sort of alone i'll tag along, if you're on your way home the things that we dreamed of could still come to be if i can give up all that's left of me so what's the catch? your love is like a moth to a flame and the light might be worth it in spite of the pain your love is like a house falling down but i'll stay inside so long as you are around your love is like a lingering dream i hold onto it, though i don't know what it means your love is like a hesitant ghost and i don't know if my love could ever come close
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Sophie's Dream 2 02:01
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two o'clock in the morning central standard time i came over to sing you a nursery rhyme this sorrow's heft is all that's left of the girl you were there's no letters on the burning page anymore and i will sing you to sleep yes, i will sing you to sleep the open vault of heaven reaches down for you the sweeping curve of the earth swings around for you and the empty dome calling welcome home for an epitaph and a bitter pill, it is sweeter still when it made you laugh and i will sing you to sleep yes, i will sing you to sleep pretend to defend you again i will sing you to sleep

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“He knew that instead of waking her he should lull her back to sleep, so he tried to come up with an answer that would plant the image of a new dream in her mind.
‘I’m looking at the stars,’ he said.
‘Don’t say you’re looking at the stars. That’s a lie. You’re looking down.’
‘That’s because we’re in an airplane. The stars are below us.’
‘Oh, in an airplane,’ said Tereza, squeezing his hand even tighter and falling asleep again. And Tomas knew that Tereza was looking out of the round window of an airplane flying high above the stars.”

--from The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

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released May 24, 2013

sophie's dream is or has been nathan, nick, eva, and char.

nathan: vox, guitars, basses, cajon, toy drums, hand claps, train whistle, some synths, ukuleles, songwritering
nick: vox, upright piano, synthetic fuzz calliope, hand claps, tambourine, synthetic bass drum, recording + production
eva: vox, shaker
char: violins

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