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Sleep And His Older Brother, Death

by One Life Animal

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1.
Lens 05:00
I give an edge to the aperture Or else it bleeds as the line blurs It forms the present, the present tense It is the lens that makes it make sense It neatly cuts between fore and aft It’s sweeping through me a backdraft It forms the present, the present tense It is the lens that bends the distance Perfect defect, this lens a reflection internal Unfold behold, it begs for a watcher eternal A strain a pain, this light is a blinding inferno A trickle through a bit will do this little rule That every moment leads a moment Perfect defect, it’s a cure with a cause for an army A need decreed, I need an army, I’ll raise an army With sight for the half light With ears for the soft night Their single sense, the present tense Deaf to the rhyme blind to the reason Live to the here and now Gift to the game curse to the chaos Strive for the why and how Deaf to the rhyme blind to the reason Live to the here and now
2.
Just a chain of events. Repeat This is relentless. Just a plodding on endlessly This is the distress. Just a chain of events. Repeat This is relentless When every day is like the other. Dull. Dull. Dull. No start or end just ground we’ve covered. Dull. Dull. Dull. Forward no progress. Just a chain of events Repeat. This is relentless Elegant and infinite the curve is drawn the path is writ Round about and all played out Searching for a break in this Just a chain of events. Repeat This is relentless. When every day is like the other No start or end just ground we’ve covered Your view won’t change none Year over year over year Your view won’t change none Year over year over year Ice-encased, frozen in place Carbon-based, this is relentless Chorus Right then left the length and breadth Always knowing what comes next Calcified and ossified wanting off the endless ride Chorus I can’t escape you I can’t escape you I can’t escape you I can’t escape you I can’t escape I can’t escape
3.
Asphalt Kiss 03:37
There was a time all lives were endless All tomorrows, none were borrowed Circling round more of us found A restless way of being, eyes unseeing Time gave a rhyme but never a reason Never a mark, never a season One unbending, day unending Shutting all the lights out, waiting for the asphalt kiss The greyer the light is, the less you know rose from fist Craving other ways out, raving for the asphalt kiss Gonna take your troubled mind and other rags away with us There were two get of Time at the outset Death the older, Sleep the younger Fretful and green, cunning and unseen They gave into growing hunger Rein the minds of, rule the lives of us Chorus The more you grasp at anything The tighter wound your inner spring Until you see that things are lovely But things give no love Entering a love just as you leave it Entering a life just as you leave it Entering a hate just as you leave it Chorus Entering a room just as you leave it Entering a life just as you leave it Entering a love just as you leave it Entering a hate just as you leave it
4.
The Brothers 03:22
It’s unfair, the gift we all must share My, my blooded kin, my brother No other, get our in Measly tiny insignificants What could they be but supplicants? Cut the cord, the load, take what’s ours we’re owed I can show you. We can own them, we can find a way Here’s a thought the way can be as wrought Or we take our fills Our father, won’t bother if we break no wills Softly slowly with the sharpest knife Separate them from eternal life I can show you. We can own them, we can find a way We can own them, we can find a way. I can show you Trade them something, perspective End the lives that they know They dream they die We’ll go on and they’ll slow Trade them something End the lives that they know I can show you
5.
Pandora 02:42
Nightmare, nightmare chimera Nightmare, end of an era Nightmare, nightmare chimera Nightmare, enter Pandora All the frightens can enlighten us We push it back ‘cuz it might attack us Mortal sleep can spell defeat in this We push it back ‘cuz it might enwrap us Nightmare, nightmare chimera Nightmare, end of an era Nightmare, nightmare chimera Nightmare, enter Pandora Nightmare, nightmare chimera Nightmare, end of an era Scream that rings Darkling dead things, bed of broken wings Run to your mother, find she’s an Other Terrified, there’s more than genocide You’re panic-stricken, your pulse has quickened Chorus Who’s got a better vendetta, a redder vendetta? Fist pulled tight in a fight for your life Who’s got a redder vendetta, a better vendetta? Eyes closed tight in a fight for your life How did I get here? How did I…? Guts wound tight in a fight for your life Who’s got a better vendetta, a redder vendetta? Nightmare, nightmare Pandora Nightmare, nightmare chimera
6.
Give And Get 03:04
It was the promise they made It was a toll we would pay Craved something beyond time Unpresent disaster It was the morsels of truth They tasted sweet to the tooth Of our unleavened lives You give some you get some I swear Into the breach that they paved We paid the promise and Laid our heads and shut our eyes Unvarnished submission And then the falling began A total loss of our feet, hands All we understand Give forever, let go of never Be there, anything or anyone You’re unplanted, you’re unhinged Be free from, unleashed from Here and now Then we learned of the dream Where things aren’t what they seem And all is possible You give some you get some In all places or none Every prize to be won All right behind our lids Chorus Chorus
7.
Sweet Sting 03:36
It’s just the thing you lack, sight unseen It’s just the thing you lack, mystery It’s just the thing you lack, exactly what you need It’s just the thing you lack, exactly what you need Know what lies beyond beyond What a picture farcical elixir Takes a potent night to put the light into day Gonna end you, teach you we intend to It’s a precious thing to wring a life from the clay Knowing nothing of the ending we bring It’s a gift to know the sweet for the sting Fail or prevail, king or just a no one When your time’s up, game’s over, it’s done It’s just the thing you lack, sight unseen It’s just the thing you lack, mystery It’s just the thing you lack, exactly what you need It’s just the thing you lack, exactly what you need Know what lies beyond beyond Chorus Fading the day you’re born, constantly aged Treasure the time you own, finite and staged Chorus Fading the day you’re born, constantly aged Treasure the time you own, finite and staged Place every step you take knowing the score Own all the sins you slake Love all the more Chorus Place every step you take knowing the score Own all the sins you slake Love all the more
8.
Oh unmerciful, feel my senses dull Oh I fall so low, feel it a drag an undertow I can’t seem to lift my head of stone My body, it’s an unknown Light is leaching out of darkened eyes I’m fading out Fight the dying light eating at my sight Limbs that won’t obey, fear it a thing I cannot name Labours of the day unmerciful, feel my senses dull Weight of my arms I do not know Fear it, a drag an undertow Chorus I’m falling down, I’m choking, scream without a sound I’m hoping now, I’m coping, I crawl my way around I’m flying, I circle wide, I’m flying over all Soaring with no wings, soaring a part of everything Oh! Shining fields of fears. Oh! Things that can’t be Oceans of blood, forests of bone and there’s Mountains of love, rivers of gold and there’s Terrors, pleasures, horrors, honors I can’t seem to tell what’s real or not Can’t trust them, my every thought All I covet and it’s all I fear It’s looming, they’re swirling It’s all right here
9.
No one can see what a destiny is Cold sun, never shows more Never warms a thing I can’t take this gonna break this away I slant, gutted by gods Guttering in sync When I found you everything changed And I can’t help the way it now is And I can’t unlearn Chorus When unbounded everything changed And a wall once a window now is And I can’t unlearn Take this gonna break this away Chorus
10.
Fuse 02:02
Now is when we’re all supposed to live Give yourself the only gift to give Grab what you can and take it Light the fuse first spark the glow then die Turn us loose we spark we glow we die Burn or you’ll taste the ashes Begin when another ends Ascend while they all descend What pains you is gonna mend It thrills you it kills you and then it begins again In this skin burns hate love and desire Come with me we’ll make our bed a pyre Burn or you’ll taste the ashes Just one shot is all that you will get Take what’s yours or live with your regret Burn or you’ll taste the ashes Chorus Reap what you sow Doubt what you know Reap what you sow Doubt what you know Con in a pro Now is when we’re all supposed to live Give yourself the only gift to give Burn or you’ll taste the ashes Burn none for your pleasure Time will take your measure Serve all harm none
11.
I’m getting up so cheated I’m rising undefeated I’m getting up so jaded Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. Just a word that’s beating Just an empty bleating. Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. Just a word that’s beating. Just an empty building Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. Just a word that’s beating Just an empty bleating. I’m rising undefeated, I’m getting up so jaded Just a word that’s beating. Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. Just a word that’s beating. Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. Just an empty bleating I’ve been living in lies and possibility Seeing nothing before my eyes Passing blame out like bills for culpability Apathy was a huge disguise Apathy was the real disguise All has faded to lies and possibility There is nothing before my eyes What remains is my failing sensibility Am I really the first to die? I am only the first to die This thing they call an ending How can it truly be? I know I’ll be somehow or somewhere I can’t cease to be me Just a thing that they call an ending How can it truly be? Revelation sought for and fought for Learning to cope in degrees

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A concept album, Sleep And His Older Brother, Death, tells the story of how Sleep and Death came to have dominion over Humanity. This sprawling and ambitious epic tunnels into the deepest recesses of our collective history to explore why the seductive power of Sleep and the undeniable force of Death have absolute authority over us.

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released July 19, 2013

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One Life Animal Vancouver, British Columbia

One Life Animal is a Vancouver, BC- based, hard rocking, four-headed tone monster. Feral and dynamic, this genre smashing “Prog-Pop” quartet delivers a unique and explosive sound for their first album.

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