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Lands

by Prathloons

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Amthyric Lands is a dirge, and I am not sure whether or not I am lucky to not know what died.

There is something raw and vulnerable to the grief and struggle recorded in this album, and it makes for masterful music. Favorite track: Shame.
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1.
Cruel Summer 01:31
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Hot summer streets and the pavement is burning alive I'm trying to smile but the air is so heavy & dry These voices are saying some things that I don't understand It's too close for comfort this heat it has got out of hand It's a cruel, cruel summer Now you're gone
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Chapter of the World 03:10
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The liveliest fantasy The lifeless hangs with me You shrouded short, you stole the crown a lovely dance to sleep while you're missing me Why you crying under this tree? The leaves ain't sharp & it's still early Invite you in I'll bite you then hide the body In the bed I built for you Your brother came and asked where you'd been I hate that man his witching whiskered chin Slam the door collapse to floor velcro basement You complain of your floorboards To live this life so destined to stagnance I want I hope this glass cave remains in supreme condition The world is sick and no one shall be heard so no one can get hurt
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Shame 03:16
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How long does it take to break these human hands? A scotch tape fixed mistake sank with corroded grief March with stained regret sick of yelling time Drive us in the car & fear whatever sounds
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Replace 01:34
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5.
Across Face 02:59
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The time spent with an old friend redeems useless The time you spend rethinking its usefulness A day flies by I live inside the head of a nail And it hurts me to move outside The fear holds a whelm Unbearably sharp eyes A hourglass sands become glass it breaks Has an hour passed? We wait to clean the mess it creates I blame myself for volumes of noise & the books on the shelf And I learn to crawl one step, one leap, one stride Growing better every time
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Nothing Is Forever 03:13
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She chose to ignore her favorite choice of word The kind that would burn And like a child I had to learn to retrace my steps and fall right in The lovely recollect Collect The people we've seen They carry the world to me Because when we're asleep I'll make you explain to me The choice of your words Reclaim my mistake We wake up late & forget about it Forget I don't want to feel embarrassed, betrayed or ashamed It takes so much to climb these walls I can't look down in pain To fear these obstacles Ignore what they'll erupt Severely free create me the perfect fitting key Goodbye for now, my only friend The grace has run its mile The anger tears to my innocence "You deserved this, shut your mouth"
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New York City 00:43
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Please respect this silence as company No more speaking we need quieter nurturing
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Consume (are we better?) 06:11
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Consume what eats at me the most Rehydrate back to suffix' origin Grace fill my head soon Draw me drinking medicine Better I will become Holing out the Afton silk Slowly, I turn to one Decisions incisions shake Counting in time's tongue Life's a shoulder plowing hills The touch & the turnstile's gnaw Be kind I'll answer you in time We all will clear our tables and sing The cloud we ask our passing to Predicting the answers Destroy & build a better place The one where the quiet call Be kind I'll answer you in time We all will clear our tables and sing a hymn we all A safer inside a home We take the fall Replacing all the stolen ground Let's call it off Wallow & reset the pain Forget you were asked to move a mountain & refuse
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Whale Well 01:49
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My hands weren't empty With shells worlds I had hurt The wind wasn't helping Dividing my hair The grains came in hundreds You asked if I'd care Baring my yellow teeth I matched your dead stare Laughed with it's belly All hollowed a struck You didn't want to stop and wait and stare The whale in it's pain
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The Last Fly On the Wall 02:18
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Ceilings cave in toward a level headed heart bleeding for no one Seasons changing for another wretched year Endless sonata Still I'm fading into a weaker, faster creature promising nothing This year I'm not amused, aroused, or fighting for something I can't pronounce To feel, in my own house, afraid to kill the last fly on the wall

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Lands was written in periods of transition to places of discomfort where I'd least expected them.

Take time to be honest, alone, and understood: How do you feel at home?

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released August 30, 2016

Recorded and mixed by Matt Ciani in Chicago and Minneapolis from April-August '16.

Cover photo taken by Annick Dall in New York, New York.

Additional voices on "New York City" and "Nothing is Forever" by Matt Ciani and Annick Dall.

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Prathloons Chicago, Illinois

Prathloons is the Chicago-based songwriting project of Collin Dall. His songwriting layers poetic, melancholic lyrics atop glacial arrangements on guitar, drums, piano, & violin. The songs reminisce on the mess of getting old, the woes of life-long relationships, & accepting that the meaning of our time on earth is simpler than we think: to love and listen, and to hope for the same in return. ... more

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