Let Sleeping Gods Lie

by Akhila & the Alchemists

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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

Lyrics: Akhila Ramnarayan
Music: Doug Carraway & Akhila Ramnarayan

Vox recorded by Vedanth Bharadwaj at Sama Studios, Chennai, TN, India

Mixed by Doug Carraway in Columbus, OH, United States

Mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Single cover art and lyric video illustrations by Saloni Sinha

Lyric video by Akhila Ramnarayan

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Natalie Grover, for two brilliant articles on cuttlefish

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A confluence of musical worlds. This strange and unusual band takes you on wild and surreal flights, opening new avenues for art and indie rock in India.

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