Name: Helicopter (Deerhunter) by remiss
Duration: 6 min 33 s
Description: I'm not sure why I allowed this to happen. Bonus points: spot the clicking of the bass pick I forgot was on my keyboard :)

Figures creeping on the ceiling
Numbers changing time away
Blue wings and coloured photographs
They're replacable, no reason to stay
The tides on the shores pulse and sway

I flare up and burn bright in the pitch black sky
I am colours and I am sound
I'm a long forgotten northern light
I am not lost, but I will be found, I will be found.

Awake by the river, watch the day grow pale
Wait for the city to come to life
A long way from home, even further in my mind
Over the water, a flock of birds takes to flight
Swinging themselves into inconceivable heights

I flare up and burn bright in the pitch black sky
On emptiness and nicotine
I'm a long lost child of uncommon sights
Invisible now, but I will be seen, I will be seen

Don't let me fade again into the shadows
Don't let me slip into the dark
Hold my hand through my nightly terrors
And calm the storm in my heart
Illuminate the space between the stars
Between the stars

Northern Light

Improv 1 (They are Conspiring Without Us)

I'm not sure why I allowed this to happen. Bonus points: spot the clicking of the bass pick I forgot was on my keyboard :)

Helicopter (Deerhunter)

This is one of my all time favourites songs, it was the first The National song I ever heard (I think at least?) and it made me fall in love with them immediately.

"Don't leave my hyper heart alone
On the water
Cover me in rag and bone sympathy
Cause I don't wanna get over you

No, I don't wanna get over you."


Picture was taken by me in Seattle.

Sorrow (The National Cover)

Far from perfection, more a sketch of a song so new that it's still warm and 20% improvised every time I play it. But I thought I'd share it anyways cause I quite like the shape that it's taking.

"lean against the wind and sleep on waves
you are one with it, don't turn away
their waters won't carry me anymore
so i hold my breath, but what for?

Why do I never learn
Why do I never learn?

there are not enough hours in any day
to do what you got to do and say what you have to say
your loudest voice silenced, your words bottled up, you break halfway

this fear of misplaced trust will slowly melt and wash away
until the cores of our hearts lie bare and naked as they came
but you light your fires and burn their tongues
when you give your body to everyone

Why do we never learn?
why do we never learn?

and which ever way we turn
there's a hunger inside us that will never be stilled
it runs in our blood, killing every thing that can be killed
leaving mortal shells empty, green eyes turning white, dreams undreamed and the prophecies unfulfilled

how did i end up here?
how did i end up like this?
how did i end up here?"

Helicopter (Deerhunter)

remiss

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