Name: To Keep Me Alive
Duration: P00H02M56S
Description: written by me on August 11 and 15, 1997. Loss.

To Keep Me Alive

from Archive Volume Five: 1997 by Strange Talking Animals

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written by me on August 11 and 15, 1997. Loss.

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How can I hide from you?
You see through me, and everything that I do
Like pounding on stone and walking through fire
Why do I run from you?
Your memory burns and unquenchable fire
It feeds on me far from the places I know
I struggle to find my way back home

Here, along side the night
I pray for the Sun to keep me alive
I follow the signs left by the Moon to keep me alive

How I long for the road
Now that you're gone, the memory dies
I need to believe and wander alone
To feed the disease that rages inside

I want to believe and follow the stars
To keep me alive and follow this dream
To where you're alive and free from the pain
And free from the lies
The memories fly to keep me alive

Now I wander alone
Your memory flies to keep me alive
Climbing on stone and walking through fire
It's all I can do to keep me alive

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from Archive Volume Five: 1997, released November 23, 2021
music and lyrics by Brad James Beske
recorded at the uranium playpen

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Born in raised in Madison, WI. Transplanted to Brooklyn, Jamaica, and finally Springfield. Versed in chamber pop and rock, psychedelic and prog, and expanding musical horizons to experience electronic and ambient musics and experiment with modular and chaotic synthesis.Overfed with science fiction and fantasy and actual science. And stay-at-home dadness. ... more

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