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Sleep​/​Talk

by Okkotonushi

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1.
Forchids 08:10
Why did we say what we said when we didn't mean it? Why did we say anything? What size of thoughts had you ought to be wearing as we undress, undress, undress your mind? I run back through the fat you chewed with me Trying and trying, but I can't understand I caught you running through the marigolds said you've been wandering about the world below the Earth Said I know moles willing to lease their burrows I watched you shrink down to a grain of sand, or rather, smaller than I was told that I could grow into anything that I wanted to So I morphed into a cosmic bird and Flew the universe enslaving everything in space and time Not the best decision I've made in my life But I was young, and tired of falling in line SUPER NOVA BIRTHRIGHT! Our game of Telephone Words Trickle Like black water Problems in communication Twist our tongues and leave us nowhere Words were made by men Now we're slaves to them ..Fuck... If words were fire Then we're in the furnace We try not to speak It still tries to burn us Burn our thoughts We'll never be able to talk about it These dots form these lines form these letters And they'll only get us so far, they'll only get you so far These paragraphs and phrases hold little to no persuasion And they'll only get you so far, or they will get us nowhere at all You can only feel as far as your vocabulary will allow So your not allowed to ever be able to talk about it You started talking to me, wound up gears in plastic Chattering teeth and now I'm lost in this conversation The creator in us thrives only at the suffering of the creature in us We caught a thought, we clipped it's wings Long live lack of expression, Lock your thoughts away with your finest possesions Long live us the creators Lock away the creature to pass the time away Because there's no other option What size of thoughts had you ought to be wearing as we undress, undress, undress your mind? I run back through the fat you chewed with me Trying and trying, but I can't understand Your mouth was running like the marigolds Said you've been wondering about the world below the earth Said I know moles looking to lease their burrows The look on your face is screaming 1 thing, 5 words, 18 letters That's not what I meant.. Whoa! I can't understand You were drunk and napping in the marigolds Said you've been questioning the marksmanship of universal karma Said I know bows willing to spare their arrows I watched you split in two Right down the middle! Problems in communication Spill our lungs and leave us nowhere Problems in communication Twist our tongues and leave us What?
2.
Shimmer 09:24
I don’t know what I said It went something like this A burning itch down in my feet it shot up to my chest I felt it fill my lungs Made it's way out to my tongue And by the time it left my mouth my gums were housing liquid bone I know I’ve got a home, I know I’m not alone, It’s just that I don’t know where it is or if I can go. I tried to do the math; tried to calculate the path. But the equation for a home is rotten wood and broken glass. Please just stay tonight. Yes, I know we’ll fight, It’s just that if you go then I know I won’t be alright. But if you leave instead, then I’ll lie here in bed and sleep until I dream of being dead. Something important Happens to you every day, But you can’t see it. You’re blind And you’re shrouded. Nothing is perfect, But you surround yourself with failures Intentionally Concentrating; Contemplating. Overwhelming. I can’t stand myself. My ears bleed When you’re near me. I can’t hear you; Can’t hear myself think. I can’t feel you under my skin I just feel Your sediments Slowly trickle in. I won’t go outside, I won’t go outside Since you stole from me. Since you stole my will, Since you stole my will I have nothing left. I now have nothing, I now have nothing left For you to take from me. I now have nothing left. I won’t go outside. I won’t go out.
3.
Utterances 01:31
I've grown to used to an empty bed and I think that I've started growing fond I've got no endless nights of concentrated passion streaming me along And I don't mind that No I can't find that reason beaming, seeming to grow only slowly brighter till it's dead And this is always how it ends We can't even decently concede about these little things let alone still be friends Until your heart mends And then we'll say it never mattered Though you were shattered, tattered, climbing broken ladders heading nowhere, Only up so you could jump and land, Break your legs and fail to stand up again But that's life for a nine to five kind of lifestyle Living if you'd call it living swept into a pile And emptied out into your file They've got their thumbs pressed against you They'll turn all your friends against you! So if you don't ever want to sever these connections I suggest on turning back now Before you have those friends to spare Never let them know you care Because if you do and then you lose then what the hell have you got left except despair? And that won't get you anywhere At least not far enough away from here
4.
Spindles 10:35
No longer surrounded by this vessel, We are finally— We are finally free. I have not a destination when I die But this vessel of mine Just won’t survive This violation of time So I guess that I Will just have to find What’s going on beyond this sky And what’s got us all so horrified.
5.
Harahan 04:21
Dreams are real life ; life's a night.. Where is she when she's not by my side? Where is she, well she's not.. Dreams are real life ; life's a nightmare Dreams are real like life's a nightmare Dreams are real life ; life's a nightmare And I'm sick of feeling sick Every time I feel an empty spot in my bed That place where she'd rest her head on my chest while I'm asleep And she isn't even there! Then why can I still feel her hair Draped around my neck and the scent drifting up from my chest? And I don't ever want to feel a woman's head against my chest unless I can feel the feeling that I felt in that dream that I dreamt Why do I find myself trying to find the time to lie down and rest my eyes Because I can not find satisfaction in this life Why do I find myself trying to find the time to lie down and rest my eyes Because I aspire to find, Aspire to find that absolution And I know that it's just an illusion But ignorance is bliss and as long as I'm unconcious I'm convinced that this, THIS, is the real thing You're like a light from the sky inside my mind That I can't seem to find in waking life You're like the light that shines bright each night Behind my eyes in a different light It's like you found a door on the back of my head And inside you found a bed And still you chose to lie there alone each night But if I could find some way to crawl inside my head I'd be sure that I'd lie there with you instead Of having to fight this night life fight each night Becuase I've been waiting to fall asleep each day For much longer than you'd want me to explain But I still remember, but I can't remember you It's when I can't fall asleep at night That's when I fight the night life fight Because I can't remember ever remembering you
6.
Circles 04:48
I spend my nights alone with shapes The squares stay up much too late Sayin, "What if we were circles? Now wouldn't that be great!" And the circle says, "See that's the thing, Not even I am ever satisfied!" But the circle couldn't prove a point Not even if he tried And the triangles they don't talk much Out of fear of being rude So they just nod to certain comments Like it's what they're forced to do And when this night of ours exhausts By the time our dialogue is through We realize we're flat and boring man We just wish we all were cubes Groove And I'm a long ways from home The walls are speaking Their heavy breathing Is always keeping me awake when I'm sleeping And the floors fall apart The beating of it's heart Will stop and then start And the walls call this art See the walls and the floor Are always at war Which just causes more Between the ceiling and doors And the windows get caught In the crossfire of shots From the battles they've fought So the wood starts to rot Now they're all dieing or dead They just lie there instead Of rocking my bed Or pounding my head And the silence is nice But to my own surprise This room without nightlife Just won't suffice But that's life Life, when you're a long ways from home And I'm a long ways from home I clawed grit with grodey fingernails I sawed limbs with just dull shoulder blades Mistook my rusty spade for my trusty spade But it dug the earth all the same We'll find we are all the same And to the shape shifter goes the spoils for he blends So well Since I turned twenty I've been rotting in my body cage Hiding and discussing all the fuss I find in nowadays The circle says well boy there's gotta be a better way But there is no better way No! There is no better way And these talks alone they will elude like the lucid dream Where polygons and anthropoids can live in geometric harmony The patterns in my brainwaves keep me warm when there is no solid flesh to fill my empty sheets I wake up rotten in my body cage
7.
Sleep 06:27
Has it come? Far from- as if as from a dream. We lie, heavy to our right, an anchor on a callous. My eyes are ever-open, one-ways, cast in turn of breeze’s wake. When was I here last? This place is familiar. What did I lose here? I trace in curtains of a wasted day. We hold quaint, but has it come? Stead-wise, has it come again? Riddles, spells, and anecdotes. We hold quaint, but at what means? What did I lose here? The river flashes fingers wrapping ribbon. My skin peels back; callous or blister? Naked nerves bleed out. When was I here last? What did I lose here? Has it come at last.
8.
Talk 08:39
Close your eyes And watch very closely And when your mind finally cracks at first you will perceive it as a trick But you just can't wrap your head around it Let alone be the soul who figures it out And in the pursuit of acquired tastes And with this new found food for thought For the first time in your life you will swallow all of your doubt You'll find all of your worries are running off now As if you never even had them You've got your reasons to want to see new seasons that you've been cursed to never fathom And in that very void Shining through that crack in our condition I say, choose to stay Choose to stay Because either way you're going to wake up on one of those Days that tastes like sugar To climb atop the highest mountain grandeur Peaking just past the perfect purple pasture And with the tree-kottiest of kings you will dance and sing Until you find time can slow no faster I think I'm FREAKING OUT, you think out loud Just before passing out from laughter And from whoever's mouth the wind blows they shall bless you gently with a kiss And now you believe for you have seen a place as such does still exist Untouched and unadultered From the wicked man's contempt And we are Gods upon this ground Least you not forget Choose to stay, I choose to say Because whether you would like it or not You're going to have one of those days that tastes Just like orange juice and dirty socks Various little monsters made of grass biting at your ankles from the rocks And painting portraits of mortal young To the chainsaw songs of mountain wasps And don't you think just because they've never before laid eyes on mankind That they will threatened because well... They won't And why should they? But they don't care to know your flesh Still you find your stomach is slightly somersaulted As your digestive tract becomes elastic Through gymnastics, in accordance All it takes is reminiscing You can plug your nose but you can't escape The all pervading scent Of morsel molded hash browns and caps and gowns And that there's a thought that you had Really ought not to ponder much, Says the brain But it's too late, and you find yourself coughing up your lunch And as your spitting out your rotten guts You unswallow your soul And as it's projected out you see yourself kneeling in the black and nasty grassy knoll Without your soul (It's here you come to realize that empty vehicle, if you will, was never really you at all) And besides, That old you there is made of glass frail and hollow Like the friend you never really loved And your soul no longer holds and pity for such persons As you reign down upon your body from above And perhaps it's the fear of being bathed In a puddle of your own wish-wash That has you hold the old you down in the creek bed Like the gripping hands of a wristwatch Quite naturally you would embrace such self-destruction But rather, much to your surprise That old you doesn't even struggle As the life begins fleeting from your eyes At first it's bright And then it's blue And then it's grey And then it's cold And then it's gone Back to wherever it is I guess we all came from.. On a further look inside you'll find that side of you the day it died Was at your very best contrived Conjuring dogs upon the mountain side Should you find your head is heavy and unstable No longer able to contain the vast expanses of your mind Choose to stay There's something wonderful coming your way We have always been here only hidden in song Now rather vivid with the lenses on And darling I know, and maybe I've always knew it but They say it's all fixed but you can't fix fluid! So I sift through sweet seductions of grammar In search of a proper phrase But find all my words fail me in those moment of clarity but Clarity soon makes it's escape, and as do I! Now that we've got you talking It wasn't all for nothing We heard what you were thinking Before you started speaking out loud
9.
Diemtea 11:01
10.
Breathe On 13:05
Learning to walk; Learning to talk. Learning to feel; Learning to think for yourself. Whether you like it or not, You’re growing up. What have you done to yourself? What has come over you? Taking back everything you’ve said. You’re getting older. You’re growing old. You’re growing cold. Collect possessions and die Is not the point of life. We came here with nothing and we should leave here with nothing. We all belong to the constants of nothing. We came here with nothing and we should leave here with nothing. My only ghost dwells inside of me; It is my soul.

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Sleep/Talk is an aural interpretation of a dreamers journey through a single nights worth of sleep from a first person perspective. We have attempted to exemplify the horror and beauty contained within the natural cycles, patterns, and processes of the sub-conscious mind.
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released March 8, 2014

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jacob Scott at Zombie Life Studios in Joplin, MO.

Okkotonushi is:
Trae Coker-Guitar, Vocals
Iain Ewing-Vocals
Garret Ormsby-Bass, Vocals
Jimmy Smith-Drums, Vocals

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