Unless You're Killing Time

from when the wind is barely there by Strange Talking Animals

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FAWM 50/90 2023 song 35
written and recorded on September 28, 2023

Living by degrees. Life in the shallows.

'52 Tele, Rickenbacker 4003s, Korg SV-1, Tama Club Jam, Eventide Space, SA Collider

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The door is open - Don’t wash away in the flood
The bodies pile up - Don’t wipe away the blood
You don’t know how to live - Unless you’re killing time
You don’t know how to give - Unless you’re taking mine

There is a road, there is a light
There is another time
It’s not enough to disappear
You can’t commit the crime
You want to run, you want to hide
You want to live and die
Change your clothes and disappear
Before the spire chimes

There is a path that passes through
A forest with no trees
You take the high road in between
The mountains and the sea
You want to change, you want to win
It isn’t in your cards
The devils are beneath the road
And so they take up arms

And so it goes, the devils live inside
And so you show your weaker side

The door is closing - Find a way inside
Your fear is giving way to all your empty pride
You don’t know how to die - Unless you’re killing time
You don’t know how to live - Unless you’re stealing mine

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from when the wind is barely there, released October 28, 2023
music and lyrics by Brad James Beske

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Strange Talking Animals Springfield Township, New Jersey

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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