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If a Child Lies the Moon Will Cut His Ear Off

from The Cloud of Unknowing by Electric Brain Electric Shadow

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And the eyes of a crying child should teach us all how meaningless our sorrows are
The sadness will go here and there -- it will chase itself in circles out and up and on
But I can’t think about these things or I may dry up and fade into the howling winds

In the pettiness of private thoughts, in the small omissions and sinister but tiny lies
I saw you were discovering some unknown space where you never knew you could hide
And I see the world they want from you ignite upon a TV screen
What they hope that you will build I won’t be here to see
Because the world moves along outside, and soon I’ll move into the world outside

And the noise of the city around us, outside it’s growing out and up and on
And you go home to your hive, your tower, and I to my room upset, unloved, alone
Open up the window and release into the dusty air
The flakes and shadows of everyone who’s ever lived

They’re churning in the world outside
They’re the dust on which you build your life
And the noise of the city around us
Outside it’s growing out and up and on

And the system, the web they will build around you
Will know you better than I ever thought I did
Long ago when you were young and a seed of hopeful things
Long ago when I could see around the bounds of the mystery

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from The Cloud of Unknowing, released December 7, 2019

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Electric Brain Electric Shadow Olympia, Washington

Electric Brain Electric Shadow marries the compositional sophistication of progressive rock with the textural richness of ambient music, the dynamics of post-rock, and the emotional vulnerability of alternative and post-punk. The resulting sound is complex yet accessible, attentive to details of sound and arrangement, and evocative of thoughtful melancholy. ... more

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