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Sleep Paralysis / Able Danger (single)

by Rose with Teeth

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Inside my friends are joking with me, outside the Sun is starving to death. Climbing in kitchens and filling with fear, losing my memory, losing my breath. Outside she stands, alone, under threat. Inside I watch her murder unfold. Stabbed by a woman consumed by fear, her life's story forever untold. I crouch and curl up and cower in terror— the hands of the Empire reach into my dream and make me a hypnagogue, trapped 'twixt realities— the truth I must face is not what it seems. (Even in dreams, I am not secure; the safety of sleep offers me no cure or refuge for my broken head. Perhaps devils lurk within my bed.) The murderess pins me down to the table as flesh enters flesh and I can't move away from the NOTHING inside me, realer than real, that breaks me, transfixes me, seizes my day. I move to escape but I'm held back harder. Darkness increases, brutality swells. I'm supposed to be safe and snug in my bed, but I'm gone in my head, plunged into Hell. I say to myself, "Well, just lie back and enjoy it, you're not getting out of this anytime soon." And I couldn't move, and it just hurt so much, reality itself seemed to be out of tune. And then I awoke, and I felt like shit— At home in my body for the very first time. This kind of suffering can shape who you are, but it's without reason, it just has no rhyme.
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Able Danger 03:46
I am the man from the Propaganda Due lodge. I am here to throw you in a big hodgepodge of lies and truth and strange reality. It's far too odd for your little eyes to see. It's a clear and able danger to follow as it keeps getting stranger. You'll never know the world, you'll never know what's real. You'll never get better if you have no time to heal. We are here to put you in a deep state of mind, and what you're about to know is very hard to find 'cause nothing in your head is safe from prying. It takes a lot of blood to get you crying. It's a clear and able danger to follow as it keeps getting stranger. You'll never know yourself, you'll never know what's there. You'll never find rest if you always have a burden to bear. It's a clear and able danger to follow as it keeps getting stranger. You'll never understand, you'll never get away. You must make peace, 'cause your only option's to stay.

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This is a promotional single for my forthcoming album, Transfiguration.

These two songs offer a taste of the evolution of Rose with Teeth's sound, showcasing changes in the apocalyptic folk sound introduced in The Idols Have Been Cast Down and Rent and introducing new paragail, electric, and electronic influences.

Their themes are personal and social—just like in the "Bloody Roses" single, the first song is a personal narrative concerning abuse and its effects and the second song is both a spiritual exploration and a commentary on social issues.

Thank you for listening, and God bless you.


Permanent free download (with original files):
www.archive.org/details/SleepParalysisAbleDanger

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released July 9, 2019

Personnel:
• Evangeline Sutherland (except where otherwise noted)
——vocals, guitar, synth, production, album art, design

Notes:
All lyrics written by Evangeline Sutherland.
All music composed by Evangeline Sutherland.
Instruments and equipment used: a Shure SM57 microphone, a Steinberg UR22mkII USB audio interface, a Kona K394D acoustic guitar, a midiplus AKM320 MIDI keyboard, a Remo tambourine, Audacity, and Ableton Live using presets and the Supertone VST.

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Rose with Teeth Richmond, Virginia

mystical music for traumatised teens

(a project by Angie Sutherland)

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