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Maps of Outer Space

by Elmer and the Ceramic Trees

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Upon bleak December tundra Two immortals standing small With the aching realization That one of them shall fall. Eyes reach across the darkness Breath burdened with defeat When I promised you surrender Or at least serenity. So please, please, please I remember... I remember... I remember... When the sky fell through the morning Laying clouds beneath your head Staring lifeless into lightness Pleasures crumble, daylight bends. So please, please, please I remember... I remember... I remember... How I loved you.
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Ambitions waver in the overcast Condemned to linger in routine End each directive with a question mark I search in vain for higher peaks. I feel the new year breathing down my neck So heavy with uncertainty And in the celebration's aftermath I grind the stones between my teeth. The silence stretched across the afternoon The blankets tucked beneath my chin The voices whisper underneath my door They'll pray but I won't let them in. ('Cause it's okay) Everyone's afraid these days (I'm okay) Everyone's afraid these days (There's no shame) Everyone's afraid these days (We're all okay) 'Cause everyone's afraid these days. And the wrinkles of the sun Will fill our faces with their ghosts Carving valleys in our skin Burning blisters on our hopes And the party's almost gone You were such an awful host Icy murmurs chill the air As you stutter through a toast. ('Cause it's okay) Everyone's afraid these days (I'm okay) Everyone's afraid these days (There's no shame) Everyone's afraid these days (We're all okay) 'Cause everyone's afraid these days.
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Wilderness 05:17
Night whirls around me Faceless I'm drowning In the vacuum of your soul Boundaries disappear With every pulse I'm nearer To the hand of your control. So drag me to the depths Of love's dark wilderness And make me bleed for you. Give all of my life for a little more time with you Said all of my lies gonna make a god out of you All of my life for a little more time with you All of my lies gonna make a god out of you. Drunk on sweeter potions Doubt eclipsed devotion This anger looks so beautiful on you Howls and thunder claps That roll the heavens back To reveal a darker shade of truth. So love me 'til I'm hollow Then leave me where the wind will carry me away. Give all of my life for a little more time with you Said all of my lies gonna make a god out of you All of my life for a little more time with you All of my lies gonna make a god out of you All of my lies gonna make a god out of you. And you're so pretty when it's raining When all my palace walls are shaking You're so pretty when it's raining It's raining It's raining It's raining It's raining. Give all of my life for a little more time with you Said all of my lies gonna make a god out of you All of my life for a little more time with you All of my lies gonna make a god out of you.
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The light came over me I felt the planets shift I sailed through troubled clouds To shapeless worlds adrift For you...I'd shine for you. Oh you're so beautiful With the freckles that light your face I have mapped my way back home From the widest reaches of outerspace So let me wrap around your bones Like strings of seaweed tangled in your toes For you...I'd shine for you For you...I'd shine for you Departures wear us thin Embraces torn apart by savage winds Souls lost in distant skies Long to feel their weight again. For you...I'd shine for you For you...I'd shine for you.
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In bedsheet canyons My sole companion's The window's lonely screams My eyelids heavy With weights of memories Lost at the eddge of sleep The glacial rooftops Their sequined mountains Engulfed by milky waves And in their shambles The evening shadows Act out their mournful plays. When at the door A shape appeared With gentle smiles Assuaged my fears From dust to dust Through strange frontiers Lit by stars that hang In drops of tears. Through cosmic fault-lines Our spirits entwined In rings around the sun And in the clear night Our fates dissolved Like the snowflakes on our tongues. For countless dreams I have roamed The barren land Between God and stone From spacious highs To oceans low To wrap your heart In lengths of gold. Arise from the cradle of a dream this is when I lose you again Arise from the cradle of a dream this is when I lose you again Arise from the cradle of a dream this is when I lose you again Arise from the cradle of a dream this is when I lose you again Arise from the cradle of a dream this is when I lose you again Arise from the cradle of a dream this is when I lose you again Arise from the cradle of a dream this is when I lose you again.
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(Instrumental)
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A yellow fog flows from the brim of the moon Through weeping forrests of an unwordly hue The hallowed paths weave over tattered terrain Stalked by the spirits striped with war on their face An ancient valley where a city once stood Plundered by plutocrats who took all they could The emerald temples where the holy ones sleep When twilight parts the earth they rise to their feet In the cruel night She will wait for you With a cool smile She Will wait for you An ocean princess laid to delicate rest With seashell eyelids and the sun in her chest A crimson furry claws its way to the sky The river thickens with the blood of the tribe In the cruel night She will wait for you With a cool smile She Will wait for you In the cruel night She will wait for you With a cool smile She will wait for you She will wait for you In the cruel night She will wait for you With a cool smile She Will wait for you In the cruel night She will wait for you With a cool smile She Will wait for you She will wait for you.
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Heavens Burn 05:17
A dream ago I floated through your home And I almost could remember who I was The picture frames Although the faces may have changed Still hang crooked on your cold vanilla walls. My mind recalled a day back in the fall Back when I was only 17 My heart had burned With corners left unturned And summers that made candy out of weeds. This is none of your concern Sit back and watch my heavens burn. Then I awoke In a body I didn't know Although I knew somehow that it belonged to me I cried, I called For anyone at all Then descended down the stairs for my routine. I'm in the zone I'm a lost suburban drone I'm a cause without effect without a time And I had known you was crooked to the bone Although I never felt the need to change my mind. This is none of your concern Sit back and watch my heavens burn This is none of your concern Sit back and watch my heavens burn. This is none of your concern Sit back and watch my heavens burn This is none of your concern Sit back and watch my heavens burn Sit back and watch my heavens burn Sit back and watch my heavens burn.
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In a secret place I held your face With every fallen tear I'd taste The salty streams The flowed from dreams' Sweet reservoirs that time depletes. From empty fields Rose worlds unreal That towered over mortal fears. Great walls of trees A kingdom between Where giants roamed and dragons feast. We rode the waves To higher planes Where seraphs held the snakes at bay The flood gave way to vibrant shades You put the color in my face In a secret place. I'd never known We'd one day fold Into the shadows of our own. Our roads would bend Arced by the hands Of fates too wise to understand With thunder came White sheets of rain That flushed the pink out from your face. A kingdom lost I couldn't reclaim A wilted fern adorns a grave In a secret place In a secret place In a secret place.
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Her majesty speaks through the lips of the clouds The breeze on her whisper Floats you free off the ground. When the weight of infinity Plants its feet on my chest I only long to be near you When you laugh and say "Hello again my friend." We can go swing in the rain Imagine the leaves haven't changed That all the honey remains If you go I'll go to So take me away with you In the cold of the dark There's a ghost of a spark And it's shining my name. Restbound I waited For the air to grow thin When the light starts to hemorrhage All the blooming begins The stars in my ceiling Streaking like blood through the skies I'm alone with my cobwebs And the ghosts I swore I'd never leave behind. We can go swing in the rain Imagine the leaves haven't changed That only honey remains Love, lift me over the moon On the wings of your sunset perfume Through a crack in the dark There's a blossoming spark And it's calling me home To you.

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released December 15, 2016

All songs written, performed, and produced by Robbie Haas. Copyright 2016. Cover art by Karinna Rangel.

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Elmer and the Ceramic Trees Janesville, Wisconsin

Conceived in the summer of 2012 by Janesville, Wisconsin singer-songwriter Robbie Haas, Elmer and the Ceramic Trees blend the lush melodies of bands like The Beatles and Big Star with the doom-and-gloom pop of The Cure and Echo and The Bunny Men, the driving rhythms of New Order, and the big choruses of Bowie and Arcade Fire to form a style of indie pop that is at once harrowing and gorgeous. ... more

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