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hessdalen light

by orchid mantis

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those lights went out a long time ago and you lost your shadow and you never found it saw your face on my face illuminated before but not anymore i gave what i could but i couldn't want you and every night i wish that i would
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you float away from here the interstate separates the sun from your lungs i want to leave but i don't know how i want to sleep but it's too early now and everything i know i leave alone so calm down don't leave me i need this to feel free i try to remind you but you don't know what you do you know the way from here give up the day it's okay to run here
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don't go alone when the trees change leaves you don't know what this means to me cause it's easy to leave would you keep it with me a dark blue fog i feel it pass over me and i am not a persistent careless thought
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you'll fade 02:50
tore yourself apart to live again something broken, something said and i don't mean to seem so sad about it yeah i don't mean to seem so sad about it i'm drifting towards where i can't see your face is one that i can't read and when all of the rest won't stay they're gonna leave you and you'll fade took too much so you'd forget again you just followed where it led and i don't mean to seem so sad about it yeah i don't mean to seem so sad about it
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i won't stay too long just lift this from my thoughts i don't care at all just tell me that you're wrong cause i can't blame you for this sadness and i know that it's all a habit you take it and fall's gonna turn to winter and the days are gonna lose their glimmer you'll take it, believe me sleep till i exist feeling out of it don't wake me from this tired uneasy
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gates 03:25
and when the gates close leave me where it's cold and ice drips from the back of your neck 4 years spent believing that when you left the sun wouldn't set and now i know you're not alone but i don't want this to go
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open arms 04:19
pull apart you're in my thoughts i'm not prepared honestly i'll never leave i see the irony don't do this on your own i'll be there in a minute kill the time trapped behind a million barriers open arms i want what you want
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old stars hover beneath me nobody sees me old stars hover beneath me you'd never leave me i guess not give me a reason can't you tell that i'm tired and i'm not scared of what's out there but i won't say what you won't say and we'll all take and then go away but we're all alright and we'll all decide that we're waiting on old stars
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an album about seeing people that aren't there, loss, old cartoons, secrets, drifting apart, escapism, hypersomnia, japanese literature & film, tornadoes, letting go, dark blue fogs, old poetry, and planetary imagery.
recorded on a 4-track that is now broken.
as always, send me an email if you really can't afford it and we can work something out.

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released November 1, 2014

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orchid mantis Atlanta, Georgia

found sounds, tape collages, and pop songs about forgetting.

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