Songs That Can’t Be Played Too Loud

Today we begin a new phase in this series: The Glitch Mob Era

For our inaugural outing, I present A Dream Within A Dream, From Drink The Sea.

Please note that our Glitch Mob listings will be in no particular order – the whole of Drink The Sea and See Without Eyes in particular are works of genius. If only it was possible to buy their albums and pay less than twice the cost of the disc in shipping. Luckily, they post everything for free anyway. Like artists.

Songs that can’t be played too loud

I mean, of course the greatest thing ever created by humans can’t be played too loud. Duh.

Bill Hicks Samples:

“See, I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs and burn ‘em. ‘Cause you know what? The musicians who made all that great music that’s enhanced your lives throughout the years? …rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs.”

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, that there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves… Here’s Tom with the weather!”

“It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a way on personal freedom is what it is. Keep that in mind at all times, thank you.”

Lyrics

Dreaming of that face again.
It’s bright and blue and shimmering.
Grinning wide
And comforting me with it’s three warm and wild eyes.

On my back and tumbling
Down that hole and back again
Rising up
And wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye.

In… Out… In… Out… In… Out…

A child’s rhyme stuck in my head.
It said that life is but a dream.
I’ve spent so many years in question
to find I’ve known this all along.

“So good to see you.
I’ve missed you so much.
So glad it’s over.
I’ve missed you so much
I came out to watch you play,
Why are you running away?
I Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running?”

Shroud-ing all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song…

“So good to see you.
I’ve missed you so much.
So glad it’s over.
I’ve missed you so much.
I came out to watch you play,
Why are you running away?
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running away?”

Prying open my third eye.

So good to see you once again.
I thought that you were hiding.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing the tail of dogma.

I opened my eye and there we were

So good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding from me.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.

Prying open my third eye.

Annihilation

Quote


From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life’s no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life’s no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life’s no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten this nation towards its destruction,

It’s your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice,
Peace or annihilation

- APC