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Just a Dream
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Go back to sleep, it's just a dream
Toothless, torn from mothers breast
And smashed against the cold concrete
It's just a dream, go back to sleep
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
The words that every mother said
When wracked and writhing in your bed
And torn apart at every seam
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
But your dreams don’t offer you distraction
The horrors manifest within your mind
Adrift on a cold sea of strange abstraction
The torment and the terror intertwined
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
I awake choked with a cotton breath
My mouth stuck shut with gum of flesh
And nothing remains as it seemed
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
But my dreams don’t offer me distraction
The horrors manifest within my mind
Adrift on a cold sea of strange abstraction
The torment and the terror intertwined
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
My ma once uttered, by my bed
Cut with my fingernails; my head
She’d heal my wounds and help me keep
…my sanity
…go back to sleep
…go back to sleep
…go back …to sleep
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Roman Candles
02:39
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Ripping the tights off my nuclear bride
As we surf the Deoxyribonucleic tide
Held together by gaffa tape, anvil and fire
Barebacking angels in spirals of wire
Though our hearts can't be denied
Burdened with shame, striving for pride
With a lust too hot to handle
Burning bright like roman candles
Where the oxygen thins to a paste or a dream
And the sirens are drag kings with thick lipstick seams
The reactor transmutes breath of god from a scream
Pumping black bile and blood into neighbouring streams
Though our hearts can't be denied
Burdened with shame, striving for pride
Still we're just going through the motions
Stripped of love and deep emotion
My heart drills a hole in the cell of my chest
Whose prison walls labour a deep mortal test
To commit to eternity inside the core
In the hope that it doesn’t become like before
Though our hearts can't be denied
Burdened with shame, striving for pride
With a lust too hot to handle
Burning out like roman candles
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Oli Spleen Brighton, UK
A solo artist since 2012, Oli Spleen started making music way back in 2003 with his first band The Flesh Happening.
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Spleen are a five-piece alternative, post-punk, queercore group from Brighton UK, with electro / disco influences and Gothic Sensibilities.
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Pig Miracle Day
by Pink Narcissus
PN, 2008-2019.
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Waiting to Burn
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Love the seductive, lyrical vocal and violin of His Honey Words winding amongst the dark and dense backdrop of this album.
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Pizza Espresso
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Armed with washboards and penny whistles, French expats release charming, country-fried, drinking duets.
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