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Let Sleeping Gods Lie is the first new single from Akhila & the Alchemists since our first full-length album Woe Begone. It's a song about love, memory, consciousness, loss, and cuttlefish.
lyrics
rowing
amber light fills the lake
holding
up my hand, looking ahead,
somewhere past your shoulder
writing the tale of the dragon instead
looking
for a sliver of certainty
how truly absurd we were
the future was here
sailing
across a moth-eaten sky
singing
no requiem, no lullaby
no lament, no long-drawn sigh
no lovelorn peroration
spilling
blood orange the light from your eye
a world ruled by neither rhyme
nor reason, let sleeping gods lie
hungry, so hungry
I sliced into my pain
with a cheap, plastic steak knife
and flushed it down the drain
I flushed it down the drain
flushed it down the drain
make way
the cliches you abhor
come creeping past fine lines
ramshackle metaphors
canaries in coal mines, perhaps
we could have seen the signs
singing how we're living in strange times
singing how we're living in strange times
we're no good at dealing,
growing old or healing,
blue-green blooded cuttlefish
scuttle to the feasting grounds
remembering all along
how love many-splendoured is strong
hungry, so hungry
I sliced into my pain
with a cheap, plastic steak knife
and flushed it down the drain
I flushed it down the drain
flushed it down the drain
credits
released December 9, 2021
Vocals: Akhila Ramnarayan
Drums, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, ukulele, keys: Doug Carraway
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