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lyrics
Past Lives
So when you dream, / it’s neon streets / and game-show crowds / that won’t stop clapping. / It’s hotel skies, / collapsing minds, / that heavy penance / for past lives, / the nights on fire, / the drunken slurs, / and the morning hits you / like a dirty word. // Oh, so you make enough money for your cigarettes, / but you can’t implode without an audience / and your lungs try to tell you that you’re going soft / while your woman coughs. / So you finally got bored of the tourist traps / and of drinking with the girls for the full collapse, / so you stopped disagreeing with the acid thoughts, / “Yeah, I’m going soft.” // But when you sing to me, / I don’t feel their teeth. / Ah, when you sing to me, / well, I don’t hear anything / at all. // And she was singing, “Does it eat at you? / Baby, ‘cause it eats at me, / but if they’re getting sick of you, / then maybe they’ll get sick of me. // But you make enough money for your cigarettes, / so there’s no real reason for an audience. / Well, they came, they came, they stayed a bit, and they just left. // So we’ll domesticate our fears, / baby, we’ll domesticate our vices, / and if you leave me, just don’t leave me here / in this silence. // So will you sing to me? / ‘Cause I still feel their teeth. / Oh, will you sing to me? / ‘Cause I can’t hear anything / at all // but our past lives, / just our past lives.”
credits
from Atheist Grief,
released February 21, 2012
All music written and performed by Dave Trautz (BMI) except for drums on tracks 1, 3, and 4, which were written by Dave Trautz and performed by Donavan Foy and Dave Trautz.
All lyrics written by Dave Trautz and performed by Dave Trautz and Pi De Leon.
Recorded, mixed, and produced by Dave Trautz.
Mastered by Pete Lyman.
Artwork and design by Alyssa Mees (www.alyssamees.com).
Special thanks to Justin Eanes, Wolfram Duenas, Vanessa Gonzalez, Jeff Li, Christian Trautz, Marisa Campos, Jeanine Campos, Abel Bravo, Eric Leon, Jimmy Majors, John Balli, Baldy Garza, Robert Eiker, Scott Trautz, Susan and Derrick Trautz.
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