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The Death of the Sun in the Silver Sea

by Minor Stars

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1.
You oughtta know by now I'll get to you somehow Maybe in your nightmares Holding you down until you wake Have you been as low as now? Trying to wake somehow From this hollow nightmare But holding on like the setting sun Don't you know you're alive And all your thoughts are mine I'm so far out of sight Like an echo of a shadow in your mind Don't you know you're alive And all your drives are mine I'm so far out of sight Like a killer dressed for night I am coming alive I am coming tonight I am coming alive and you're mine You can't run away from this one But still I know you’re gonna try You're an evil one You're a hard one to throw But this time you're going too far You're going too far You're done, done, done with me
2.
Dead Weight 04:21
You know it’s a lie So just let it die Nothing new’s gonna fall from the sky So end it and run And pick up your gun You’ll need it to fight them one by one You know better Break the fetters now So when you’re eighty You won’t be afraid of me Bust out of jail And rip off the nails Throw all your dead over the rail It’s about time That you cut the line You’ve got no business drowning here You know better Break the fetters now So when you’re eighty You won’t be afraid of me I knew a man Who used to sing in an old band By the shore For the drinks and the ladies But then one day He couldn’t say how it happened His head was gray And his songs were buried in daisies
3.
You wanna live the dream It’s never what it seems Ten hours on the road Another empty show How many records sold? How long before you’re old? However low you go You keep digging for the gold But your mind is still waiting ’round For some kind of desperate sound That says you’re not wasting your whole life Your heart is in it now But someday You’ll throw in the towel And you’ll say I gave my best try but numbers don’t lie It’s too late to let go But you just wanna explode Your friends have all moved on And you carry the load You’re afraid that you’re wasting, wasting your whole life Your heart is in it now But someday You’ll throw in the towel Someday You’ll move to any town And someday Your heart will let you down Someday You’ll hang up your pen And long for back when You gave your best try but numbers don’t lie
4.
Mirror 04:03
What kind of ship you running honey? What kind of dive you keeping here? It takes more than a little money It takes more than you could ever give No way you’re gonna make it honey What kind of break you waiting for? No way you’re gonna love that many Time to raise the stakes you’re playing for Get your suitcase ready Make your hair up pretty Hold your breath until I get there Paint your lips like rubies Blow your kisses to me Hold the world in your mirror Tell me have you ever felt like dying? Have you ever felt so far from home Well I am here to tell you honey Call me when you don’t wanna be alone Get your suitcase ready Make your hair up pretty Hold your breath until I get there Paint your lips like rubies Blow your kisses to me Hold the world in your mirror
5.
Black Lake 05:25
instrumental
6.
Ready or Not 03:46
Get me outta here I just can’t take another year There’s lead here in these bones And fiction ringing in these tones It doesn’t make a difference Where we will go Just put up the sail And let the wind, let the wind blow Ready or not The dead are still alive Burning up with advice Like you’ll come crawling home Or you’ll die out there alone It doesn’t make a difference What you all say I’ll kiss you all goodbye And sail away Ready or not I’m coming after you Ready or not There’s nothing you can do Ready or not Gimme something new Ready or not Just gimme something true
7.
You’re like a marigold in springtime Your head explodes into the sunshine I’d like you bury you in my light You’re like a feather falling freely You’re far too perfect for this city I’d like to fall with you beside me Heaven knows how high my head flies You are my one dream of paradise I’m falling through your silver skies Bathing in your bluest eyes You’re like a diamond white and shining You’re like a cloudless silver lining But I’d like you know just what you’re Heaven knows how hard my head tries To turn you into my paradise But now I see through your silver guise To your scathing-queen blue-eyed lies Goodbye
8.
Just when you thought that you made it You wake to find that you hate it You’re holding on to illusion You’re holding on but you’re losing Your days are numbered in pencil You’d better lie down and settle Your body hurts, yeah it’s aching Too many birthday cakes baking You find that nothing’s worth faking Another step can’t be taken Nothing else matters but waking No matter how much is taken I thought you might like to know The years are starting to show And all that you’ve left behind Is keeping you up at night Just when you thought that you made it You wake to find that you hate it Your days are numbered in pencil You’d better lie down and settle It’s over, it’s time It’s over, resign You thought you’d be alright You’d make it out alive But you had so many plans That slipped right through your hands Now you got a little time To go and make it right
9.
This life that you see Well it isn’t me This red-orange sea Stretches on forever I saw you in the bar Burning like a star With pretty yellow eyes I think about you all the time Driving home drunk with Just the dark morning road skies Full of hollow spotlight eyes Yeah I look good from a distance But it would take acres of wisdom To reconcile all the contradictions Flooding from this drunken vision Rubbing raw from the surface friction No way I will be Buried by this sea My pedal’s on the floor And you won’t see me anymore How do you like me in overdrive? How do you like me in overdrive? Well, come on, well come on

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released January 26, 2010

Copyright and Published 2010 The Anima Dream Tapes
Recorded by Nick Petersen at Track & Field, Eric Wallen at The Crossroads, and Matt McCallus at Red Storm
Mixed by Scott Solter at Baucom Road
Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B

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Minor Stars Chapel Hill

Minor Stars is a psych rock trio from Chapel Hill, NC. Strong songwriting meets heavy rhythms, fuzzed-out guitars, and soaring vocals to create music that bristles with energy and refuses to stand still.

It’s stadium rock for introverts, a distinctive sound that has a “wonderful kind of brutality” (Scott Solter, producer, Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, Okkervil River).
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