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A depiction of my childhood night terrors.

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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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from Just a Dream / Roman Candles, released May 1, 2020
Vocals: Oli Spleen
Piano, Backing Vocals, String Arrangement: Nick Hudson
Violin, Viola: Liz Carey
Double Bass, Backing Vocals: Forbes Coleman

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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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