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I slip into the quiet sounds when I can't sleep
Let the radio noises and distant voices carry me
To someplace I can't lift my head or feel my toes
To my ocean garden take me deep where no one goes

'Cause I can remember the fog of the morning
Rolling through my mind
The beauty of nothing and the infinite all-thing
Held in balance by the tide
Sensations of floating with no way of knowing
The bounds of space or time
So can you hold my line?

Horizons bend by whim of sea at distant shores
And I can hide from my worried mind in liquid roars
Fractured light through waters weeps to depths untouched
By the atrocities that taint the surface up above.

No skylines, no byways
No cities, no highways
No trace of human law
No property values or power craving the vacuum
In my coral castle halls
Just a river of rainbow becoming around me
Of creatures great and small.
So can you hold my call?

I dreamt I was a fish and I could stay
And I knew the land no more than night knows day
And my world could bloom and breathe
Down in the belly of the sea.

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from We were Beautiful in August, released October 27, 2023

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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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