Track the shabby shadow down....

[Tila]

Coil- The Dreamer is Still Asleep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZDnSvmv9J0

 

If this song does not speak to you, then no song written about trying to keep from daydreaming your life away ever will.

You know the artist who made this (Coil) has got to be a daydreamer himself. How else could one make such a resonant song about this subject? He gets it. :)

The lyrics also hit home.

Lyrics:
Hush; may I ask you all for silence? 
The dreamer is still asleep 
May the goddess keep us from single vision 
And Newton's sleep 

The dreamer is still asleep 
The dreamer is still asleep 
He's inventing landscapes in their magnetic field 
Working out a means of escape 
We'll cut across the crop circles 

The seer says no 
Not much time left for these escape attempts 
Look at it this way 
In ten years' time 
Who'll care? Who'll even remember? 
One dies like that, deep within it 
Almost inside it 
It's there for a reason 

I'll give you my old address 
And take that little book 
To tear and cut the paper 

The beginning is also the end 
Time defines it, time defines it 
It will end 
Like close friendship 
Nothing could be further 
We forget the space between people and things 
Is empty 
We forget, and don't notice the loss 

Crossing into venerable degeneration 
Such radiant pollution 
The god with the silver hand surveys this vast contamination 
The dreamer is still dreaming 
The dreamer is still dreaming 

In the heart of your heart 
Your eye remains 
Is that hurt you? Is that blister you call loveless? 
Your whole life is a cold slow shock 
Your whole life is a cold slow shock 

Take all your time 
Track the shabby shadow down 
Through hissy mists of history 

The dreamer is still dreaming 
The dreamer is still dreaming 

Hush; may I ask you all for silence? 
Will he wake in time to catch the sunset? 
Hush; may I ask you all for silent? 
May I ask you all for silent?

 

 

[Sabrina Gonzalez]

Perfect example of what most of us feel. Awesome find.

[Eretaia]

"Will he wake in time to catch the sunset?"

 

So beautiful.

This one also made me giggle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJOp4QR62M

[M. Derp Peterséns]

Lyrics aren't usually a big part of my DD music, but even Mr Obvious (me) couldn't miss this one. Although the music itself is too alternative for me to enjoy.

Great discovery!