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Letters

by Sleep Tonight

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Julie Tjalas
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Julie Tjalas I absolutely adore this album and I used to listen to it all the time the last two years of High School. Craig is so talented, I hope he's doing well and knows how special this album really is. Favorite track: Endless Daydream.
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Kenneth Great Music. Hard to explain without bigger words so think of it as a bubble on the outside of a bubble, expanding at a fast rate until it explodes in amazingness. Favorite track: The World is a Hologram.
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1.
Underneath a burning building Below the rubble, fear and all It feels like the air escaping Colour the words of your broken soul Trace your voice through the violent haze Running from something I don't believe Running from someone that couldn't be me Colour the walls of this empty maze This is romantic chaos This is the dark sun's burn and the dark sun burns and does it burn again? The light breeds end and the dark breeds fear The smoke corrupts and the stone controls Feel your smile return to my ear Colour the dark, I can find you whole Embrace you in the final moment Peace found in the isolation Peace caressed by deprivation Colour can never be stolen again This is romantic chaos This is the dark sun's burn and the dark sun burns and does it burn again? This is romantic chaos and the dark suns burn (Follow I won't go alone Without you by my side Follow I won't go alone I'm too scared to even try Insecurities of the mind Make me what I am inside)
2.
Remember the time we built stone walls? Remember how we thought they'd divide our faults? And when we realized that distance was the fruit When we realized there was nothing I could do What if I turn the page tear it down just to build it again just to see your face coming out of the rain like you did that day when everything changed we could do anything we could be just friends we could let it all end but could we let it end? and would, would you be my endless daydream? I guess this is a fixed point in time And you know what they say about fixed points in time But I'm happy that it happened though I'm not happy I'm alone But I'm happy that it happened 'cause we're never really alone What if I turn the page tear it down just to build it again just to see your face coming out of the rain like you did that day when everything changed we could do anything we could be just friends we could let it all end but could we let it end? and would, would you be my endless daydream?
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Words 01:33
If we ran out of words, I'd invent enough just to tell you, That if we ran out of time, I'd make more so we'd always be intertwined. So there are no more words, None could have enough meaning. And so I throw out my words, I want to show you: How much I love you.
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Seems like no one understands The world is a hologram I wake up tired, I can't sleep at night But in the end the fading monsters and the scary light inside that keeps us quiet and content until we die and I cry and I cry and I stop to wonder why why everything I've ever heard is all a lie Seems like no one understands The world is a hologram You're stuck inside or you're stuck outside But hey man aren't we thankful that we got to live our lives in anyway that we wanted until we died? and I cry and I cry what's the big surprise why is everything I've ever gained just for the eyes? Why does no one understand? The world is a hologram But when a river makes her song is it a melody from a pond? Does it move us along when no one knows what the words are to her song she's singing?
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I make believe to make me believe to make you believe that I am real I play these games so you will play so we can play so I can feel I wrote this song so you could sing along so we could sing along to maybe help me heal 'Cause I don't know who I am When the lights go out When you shut me out I hate the thought of changing things I want to change the way you want to change me I ran away just to run away so you wouldn't run so I could stay And if I start to make sense, lock me up and throw away the key From me Nobody knows nobody cares nobody wonders or asks why But when I'm struck imagining all the things that destroy me, I don't know who I am when the lights go out Yeah, I don't know who I am when the lights go out And please, please don't shut me out
6.
Forget 04:26
The only memory I have Is just a photograph of you So don't forget me when I'm gone And don't forget me once you've moved on My mind is rapidly decaying, Or so my thoughts keep saying. This world is only insanity I forget who I am, or who I'm supposed to be. I forget. I forget. I forget again. But time moves on and memories never die and those memories are like a photograph in my mind. And I like to feel new sensations Like the laughing and the playing On the happy faces. And these things I experience are like my first time Because I can't remember when I was nine. I forget. I forget. I forget again. And I don't know who I am, or who you are to me Yet this photograph keeps staring back, how pretty? I forget. I forget. I forget again. I will always be here. I can't watch you fade away.
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River 03:32
There are people in your life you never see And these people all want to be me There are people who are smarter than me I keep them in a cellar underground There's a vending machine And it won't stop talking to me I tried to keep it quiet, I tried to make it see But it makes an evil sound There are people in the forest And they're all watching me I tried to climb a mountain, I tried to swim a sea But it just defeated me I'm afraid of me, afraid I'll be, everything I see Is it over? I'm afraid of me, afraid I'll be, everything I see Is it over? I'm afraid of me, afraid I'll be, everything I see Please be over. Stop, look, there it goes again the world is changing outside of my head and everything I ever knew and all my fears run away from you and the burning aching constant nausea of looking out the window and being so far from you Because it's you, sweetie it's you, Hello, hello, I miss you And my world is divided into pieces it's bitter And I'm left all alone, all alone here to shiver And everything I ever wanted to give her Flows out of me like an endless river Today I found a skeleton Buried in the ground outside of my house I dug it up and glued the pieces together Hoping for a dinosaur
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The view from our room reminds me of us and how small we really are When viewed from above the twenty high stories create a new type of art All spattered and speckled and aligned with such grace Or perhaps with no forethought at all The frightening heights can deceive our small eyes Make us think we're too high in the sky The blue smiling sky can heal us in time Keep us bright and alert and alive Viewed from our balcony the buildings and trees effortlessly lie in their place And the song that's inside us releases our pain in a delicate form of embrace Seven days after the view soaks my eyes and I see our future in sight Like the beautiful trees and birds and cities our love is intense and alive The frightening heights can deceive our small eyes Make us think we're too high in the sky The blue smiling sky can heal us in time Keep us bright and alert and alive Sometimes when tears drop From the beautiful heights I'm not broken It's just sad it can get cold This far away and so high.
9.
Of the Storm 05:31
Come beautiful storm Throw the windows wide and topple the skies But I can't let you inside 'cause I'm afraid of being hurt I guess I'll never know why you're so appealing when you can destroy I won't wait for silence, I won't whisper down the phone I won't wait for silence, for you I can and will be strong I won't wait for silence, I will be there when you fall I won't wait for silence, I'll hold your hand now you stand tall Like a calming wind that Blows me over and into your arms Like a falling rain that Washes me over and through my heart and then you take my wrist and You write three words that are of the storm I won't wait for silence, I won't whisper down the phone I won't wait for silence, for you I can and will be strong I won't wait for silence, I will be there when you fall I won't wait for silence, I'll hold your hand now you stand tall I won't wait for silence, I won't whisper down the phone I won't wait for silence, for you I can and will be strong I won't wait for silence, I will be there when you fall
10.
Letters 08:52
"Going home for the first time in weeks isn't it strange when home seems like a foreign place it's no wonder I feel empty But everything feels so different in this light the weight of the sky is not a burden but a comfort" You said to me in a letter Leaving you for the first time in years so far away through all time you were with me you gave me everything and now I feel so different in this place without you here and yet you're still my comfort Well sweetie I will write to you every day use all the ink in the pens and throw them away and make you know you're different and special to me like when we'd sing Pink Rabbits and 17 or when we'd sit in my room till long after dark and listen to Matt sing that he should live in salt or when we held each other close and we held each other tight and I kissed you then, yeah I kissed you goodnight or the times when we would play a thirteen-minute song and sing something about running and running 'round the sun it was a Universal feeling we shared each night like a Blur moving fast or Explosions in the Sky And to my ephemeral surprise No one speaks so no one lies And as I gaze upon the beautiful look in your eyes Does anybody know the name of the thing keeping me alive? I can hardly stand the silence I'm falling through the sky like a failing pilot The control lights flash and the windows fog I come crashing down to my favorite song and when I awake I realize that I'm wrong I've never been one to pick a favorite song so the tune in my head wasn't music at all it was the colours in your voice keeping me strong "Axiomatic secrets assumed and surmised Our escape became circumvention designing fabrications guaranteed not to betray us So be it if they overlook our side we're just protecting our hearts from their world But the truth to me will always be that we remain inseparable" And I'd do it all again 'cause in the end You were worth the memory

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released October 29, 2013

Recorded from Sept. 2012 - Oct. 2013 in my bedroom.

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