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The Liar's Dream

by Ed & the Red Reds

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Spring 03:06
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From way up here them mountains look like waves in an endless sea shining, shimering, all baby-blue & pea-green & I was wishing that you were here to see this crazy scene when something just came over me & I laid down between the trees & I dreamed I was a liar & I ran away I had no place to go I had no place to stay & I dreamed that I was dying and I know that I am because when I woke up I was not the same man From way up here this ocean looks like a table made of stone. Will you wait for me on the other side? Will you cross it all alone? I was just wishing you were here to see this endless lack of land and something just came over me, so I laid down in the sand & I dreamed I was a liar & I ran away I had no place to go, I had no place to stay I dreamed that I was dying, & I know that I am because when I woke up, I was not the same man, No I'm not the same man. I 'm just a ghost, a shell & a song of a man, drifting through the air to the promised land...
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Hellp 05:36
Help me help myself, I am not well Help me help myself, I am not well If I'm out raising anything that don't resemble hell oh, help me, angel. All of us, what are we? are we evil? Are we free? Help me to my feet I'm on my knees Help me so that I can believe if the good lord should do anything, so much as even sneeze, oh help me help me help my eyes to see chorus when I say hell, it's not some place that I fell no I've been diggin ever since I was a kid, & I aint sayin it was smart, I aint sayin it was right but at least I know what I did... Help me help myself I am not well help me kick, fight & scream & yell If I'm out raisin anything that don't resemble hell oh help me, angel. Chorus x2
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The sunrise evaporates, like water on the ground and I watch it go from the patio with my coffee & my frown. The goldenrod is bleeding off, & the blue is seeping through. & all I wanna do is sit next to you, in the morning dew, to be here be true & Oh, how sweet to get what you're due Like someone hands you a cake and says: "might as well eat it too." The sunset disintegrates the horizon never waits. Another day, gone & done. Oh how I pity that lonesome old sun as he's going below the ground! and if it were you, I could not rescue, I would follow you I would go down too. & oh, how sweet to follow through! Like someone hands you a cake and says, "hey, you know what to do." You're all I'll ever want, you're all I'll ever need. Even when you're not, it's still good enough for me. And what is a day, but a lifetime in itself....Today I knew love, & how it felt.

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A sort of musical short story concept album, written mostly in one marathon week Ed spent snowed in in a secluded house in the deschutes ntl forest. The Liar's Dream is about loss of identity, reality and self, followed by the slow, hard journey back.

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released June 4, 2014

Recorded by Zach Stamler at the Banana Stand House, Kevin French's attic, The Map Room, and Ed's house in Portland, OR. Artwork by Brooke Weeber. Layout and adaptations by Damon Boucher.

Personnel:
Zach Stamler
Ed Thanhouser
Ryan McPhail
Garen Gaston
Kyle Haverly
Schuyler Neilsson
Heather Sessler
Jason Montgomery

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