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Wash the sleep from my eyes, for one day I'll have to awake

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You don’t have to look very hard to find people
Who’ll tell you how you should be living
So I’ll add my voice to the dischordant chorus
Like chimney-smoke proudly uprising:

Life is a dream from which we’ll all one day awake
In a manner most likely abrupt
And profoundly surprising
So wash the sleep from my eyes, for one day I’ll have to awake

And I think of those people who cut their own throats accidentally
Catching their razors on moles or recalcitrant stubble
They missed the chance to die older and lonelier eventually
And to think there are those who say life’s but a pitiless struggle
So wash the sleep from my eyes, for one day I’ll have to awake

This dream of a world wars, applauds mediocrity
Lies and brutality
Flight from reality
Poets and people who speak rationality provide me a sliver of hope

But you rain down your ribbons and furbelows
On your dumbfounded progeny
Who, if they wonder, lament the glacier holding them
By their powder blue toes
So wash the sleep from my eyes, for one day I’ll have to awake

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from We went to the bottom of the ocean, released August 11, 2010

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The Sound of The Ladies London, UK

The Sound of The Ladies are the indie-schmindie alt. folk stylings of Martin Austwick, except live where it's him plus a bunch of cool musicians. He likes Tom Waits, Elliot Smith, and some other bands and solo musicians.

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