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In Dreamlife

by the Hearers

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1.
the Brain 03:47
The Brain You bled the brain alright So let's soak it in tears tonight Replace that youthful red With dirty, wet pigeon feathers Set your sights on violence Strangulate the silence Sometimes you sit alone Other times you break into strangers' homes The city shut off the water The phone is dead Your mother's dying of cancer Your father's drunk in bed Someone stole your stereo Family portraits cold and stained But it's staring at you just the same All the folks you know Bathe in a sacrificial glow Picture them one by one Rotting corpses in the Phoenix sun The world is just kindling For the burning in your heart You tried to make it to your sister's place But the Nova wouldn't start Someone stole your stereo....
2.
Elegy 04:30
Elegy (by the Jesus Lizard) The pathetic sight of your sunken eyes And the angular lines of your hips and your waist The light and the dark of your vallied ribs The skeletal draw of your temples and cheeks Your breath but a wisp from your string thin lips And the acrid stink of your face and mouth Unsound unsure your shaky legs Just when you're about to learn to smile again I'm gonna be the one to teach you how to cry
3.
Vultures & Devils & Swine When the sky, it has cleared The black train's running weird And the vultures descend on his shape They pick at his brains With their loving refrain That's as pure as a prostitute's face His family consumes his body's concern They're vultures & devils & swine His bones will be sold to the black market fold And his blood will wash over their smiles As they shed fancy tears And they dance to his fears His hand twitches just once in a while For in death perceiving the sacrilege done, He knows that his kingdom's been sold It's been sold, all his love His family sits sipping cocktails of greed They're vultures & devils & swine
4.
The Sultan of Sultan's Fever Dream Once on the train, the strangers' brains dissolve Upon the lonely chance of a bitter romance Meanwhile all sense is torn So devoid of all feeling, the Sultan is sleeping Cramped in his small quarters, with fever he's dreaming "This is not the way to arrive at a festival" So sweat it is beading, the shoreline's receding While rainbows dive off the springboard of meaning And knowledge is dancing And honor lies gasping The Sultan drips fear on the floor While conductors hit the drink and have a think A blind coyote fills the night with fallacy He sleeps upon the midnight train He dreams about his missing brain Red streamers strain under the weight of the thunder Gilded, immobile, a beast filled with trouble The Sultan is groaning, drips fear on the floor Two lovers appearing, they're kissing and licking The Sultan is screaming, the point he is missing "This is not the way to arrive at a festival" Our Sultan of Sultan dreams fairies attacking The couple that's fucking on the floor of his quarters The lady, she's cumming, the Sultan is fading The Sultan drips fear on the floor Our Sultan of Sultan dreams fairies attacking The couple that's fucking on the floor of his quarters The gentleman caller, in passion does holler "THIS IS THE WAY TO ARRIVE AT A FESTIVAL"
5.
Stay With Us 06:41
Stay With Us Stay with us Sit down and have a drink with us Then have another one before you change your mind You can always close your eyes, pretend your blind You're so much more So much more than we were hoping for To bring the party back before the lights go down You can always close your mind, tune out the sound Say you're not afraid for life Don't you know we're gone inside a moment And then the moments done Overcome your fear of heights Don't you know we're ghosts inside an orbit above everyone So stay for now Take a breath and find a way somehow Then take another one before you say goodbye You can forget your own pride... awhile Don't think for now There's no more trouble let yourself fade out And then hang around and maybe hang for life Stay till the end of time... for now Say you're not afraid for life Don't you know we're gone inside a moment And then the moments done Overcome your fear of heights Don't you know we're ghosts inside an orbit way above everyone Stay for your life
6.
Sylvia 04:03
Sylvia As I creep through the valley of death Your laughter hangs on the wind Nothing so broken your savior can't mend Be my tour guide again Hidden now, silver kin Whispered blood It lives again Sylvia, grace my heart Keep the rains years apart When I'm weary and hanging my head I juice the old radio In weird heaven I know you are there And I'll fly when I go Hidden now Your dying skin Waiting to visit again Sylvia, grace my heart Fly away but don't stray far Sylvia, grace my house Twilight comes, we talk about endless bliss Picture this: we all live and the gods give us everything that we needed
7.
A Star Can Be Your Home Your eyes they say your eyes won't leave the floor It seems you should get away You should head for the door The stars they say the stars can be your home They're not very far away You could fly there alone If you can find them They can be your new home In time they say in time you'll be the one The first one to get away The one to head towards the sun You're right they know you're right to leave for sure And if you disintegrate You'll have had so much more If you design it You can step through the door Come to know They're too cold for your soul Watch me hang watch me hang in the sky alone watch the pearls of wisdom fall watch our silence stall six pounds of blight three kinds of fights nine kinds of stars our class of liars. If you can find them
8.
Heavenly Bodies The heart relies on you To keep from letting me through But I would carry you, it's true Deeply through wars. When you slipped from my sight Desire had clouded my night. If fate wont sway your delight, then I Must force its hand. Struggling for sanity, waiting for amnesty fails. Heavenly bodies can move certain men to set sail. Now I am parked in your street as your bedroom light greets me, Salvation is only as far as letting me in. The heart relies on you To keep from letting me through But I would carry you, it's true Deeply through wars.
9.
No,You Know 02:26
No, You Know Savor the worthy things And trash all other ones Then save up all other things Judge them all at once If you live by these rules Then you'll always become what you wanted then If you purge till you get down to bone A fables a good defense But then never at home Don't favor a sore attempt Don't cast the first stone If you live by these ways Then you'll always succumb to your own demand If you silently build your own throne No never wait for other hands And never stay here too long Don't beat about yourself You've made decisions before To learn how to love your own self Just don't let you be the one no no No, you know Don't nestle far from your home And never savor alone

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MARC TWEED GUITAR,VOCALS, SYNTHESIZER
DARREN WELCH BASS GUITAR, VOCALS, CASIO
DAVID MOORE GUITAR, HAMMOND, VOCALS
ROB VEITCH DRUMS
JAY KAKERT HARMONICA, GLOCKENSPIEL
ERIC MARDIS PEDAL STEEL, BANJO
JEFF DOOM ELECTRIC GUITAR
ZIMLAM SYNTHESIZER
CHRIS BRAUN CELLO,PIANO,ELECTRIC GUITAR,VOCALS,LAP STEEL
MIKE WALKER TROMBONE, TUBA, HORN ARRANGMENTS

HORN ENSEMBLE:

NICK HOWELL: TRUMPET
SAM HUGHES: BARITONE SAXOPHONE
BRYAN REDMOND: TENOR SAXOPHONE
BEN RUTH: SOUSAPHONE
MIKE WALKER: TROMBONE

Recorded and mixed by David Moore and The Hearers @ Merriam Shoals Studio, Merriam, KS
Additional recording by Marc Tweed @ the Fainting Room, San Francisco, CA
Mastered by Bob Weston @ Chicago Mastering Service

Thank you James Grauerholz, the Jesus Lizard for the use of Elegy, Elizabeth Gregory, John Hulston and Anodyne Records.

Dedicated to the memory of Russell Bassman.

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released March 29, 2011

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