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Alien Crosstalk

by Lighthouse Operator

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What's written on the pages of the books in your dreams? And what's behind the doors that you cannot see? And who's the lonely shadow standing there in the corner? What's he have in store, what's he have in store for ya? You told me that I couldn't dream of faces that I'd never seen, I stared dumbfounded saying "what the hell do you mean?" I can build a city without lifting a finger I can hear the lyrics even though there's no singer I woke up in the morning, realized that life was boring So I went back to sleep, I went back to sleep I shut my eyes and never came back here Now I just wanna be a voice that echoes in your head I wanna be one of the faces that you've never seen Wanna speak the headlines of the paper on the table Turn on the lights, then turn 'em off, you'll see it's no fable Colors were distorted and I couldn't read the words The more I concentrated, the more their faces blurred Felt that I was far away in a foreign land but Then I realized it was my hometown backwards Packed my bags but it was no vacation On the train never coming back to the station Got on a plane and got trapped in foreign lands But thank, thank God it's just my hometown backwards
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The sleeping world is an upside-down mirror image Like the reflection of your face in a soap bubble The waking world is a confounded color scheme So let's explore these hidden worlds with our body doubles You'll hear the voices calling out from underneath the rubble These flowing threads of light, they call to us Escaping the daylight as we sink deeper underwater It's getting colder and warmer at the same time Yellow smoke fills a glass chamber over water Enters the lungs of the next unsuspecting victim He sits calmly waiting in anticipation Of a new view, 'cos he's through with the old one I fell through the different realms like translucent pages The world was illusory just as I left it My future was laid out before me like a burning star fire Getting brighter and dimmer at the same time The sleeping world is an upside-down mirror image If it feels real, what more do you need from it? If it feels real, could you really see through it? I can still smell the cold air from back then I can still feel the grass on the back of my head That night we left our lives behind And we knew we would always live above it all And we knew we'd live above it always The sleeping world is an upside-down mirror image
3.
I can't decide if the voice inside of my head is God or the Devil God or the Devil Lookin' for something on the inside or out To keep me on the level, keep me on the level But look for something too hard I'm afraid you might never find it I dreamt of some place far, far away from here Too far off for me to travel Once again I find myself staring at the backs of blank eyelids for hours I'm hearing echoes of the faint, cross-talking ghosts in white noise bleeding under my door. Could you be at the front of your eyes, and five feet behind yourself at the same time? Now I'm walking through the overcrowded halls, wading through the whispering silhouettes here. I see your face, and it's here to stay Eager to throw on a charade for all of us, for all of us It seems the daylight begins to fade when I feel your presence drown out the love It breathes above
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Orion 02:54
Stars fell from Orion's belt (She knows, she knows) (Wasted away on the path of least resistance) Our bodies are gone, gone Our bodies are gone, gone Our bodies are gone now. Our bodies are gone, gone. Stars fell from Orion's belt Stars fell from Orion's belt Stars fell from Orion's belt Stars fell from Orion's belt On the east side of the African continent The ancient people had nothing to point their pyramids at At the eastern side of the African continent The ancient people had nothing to point their pyramids at Blood spilled in the Colosseum seeped into the ground and flowed through the aqueducts. Blood spilled in the Colosseum seeped into the ground and filled up the aqueducts.
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She Knew 02:52
Back from outer space, you were slingshot here You will slowly erase, all you've built out there Whitewash it away, make for a new memory Leave what you were behind, and become something free. Keep walking forward but the ground seems to move with you. You're standing still but the wheels on your feet send you downhill. A few steps backward and you're right where you started. Only direction left to go is up, up, away. Captured looks on her face And it all came clear, this wasn't meant for me This wasn't meant for me She knew, she knew, she knew As I stared at the screen She saw something that I didn't see in me There's something left for me She knew, she knew, she knew As I stared at the screen She saw something that I never saw in me There's something else for me She knew, she knew, she knew
6.
Why is it that all the phones never seem to work here? My mind can't establish this connection somehow. And every time it does the voice on the other end Is always breaking up That phone number that you gave me didn't work in the real world Too many digits, or not enough Always brought me straight to the operator The last time we spoke, your dream was bleeding into reality And I couldn't understand what you meant by what you said Now all I hear is static on the other end, where you used to be But I can't hang up the phone And the line's down, but I still hear your cross-talk With the memories spilling out And the last time that I ever saw you We spoke of things I can't repeat It was the last time, the last time that I could ever call you And you finally hung up the phone
7.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that's real I have no choice now but to be happy for strangers In the corner of my eyes I see them staring at me Staring at myself This introspection has taken its toll, taken its toll I've trapped myself in a box walled in with two-way mirrors Every day I'm trying hard to stare beyond the glass But all I see is my reflection I'm just a bird who forgot to fly South for the winter Now I'm building a nest just to survive this place Every time I step outside, feels like I'm braving the cold world All by myself This false direction it keeps me asleep, keeps me asleep I'm spending too much time trying to forget where I am And every morning when I look in the mirror I'm still afraid of my reflection I'm still afraid of my reflection And all I see is my reflection
8.
Smoke and stardust fills my lungs Makes me think that the planets are just too high strung (along, strung along) Stardust comes and stardust goes I see the moon and it's shoutin' at the people down below (get off, get off) 'Cos we're all just nothing floating through space-time 'Cos we're all just nothing floating through space-time We're all just someone hanging 'round dreamin' We're in the middle of a pattern that just keeps repeating on We're all just something hanging around dreamin' We're at the bottom of a black hole searching for meaning If you look up at the sky, you'll see the edges of space But what separates them, the horizon or the brain? From a distance it's all the same, And we're the ones to blame, we're the ones to blame Just a great, big, calamitous happenstance. If you'd just look at the planets You'd see that they were manic But what set their paths, Your God or my Math? Have you ever thought that maybe He was naught? That you were born on that day to die and decay? Who knows what we'll discover, if there should ever come a time when there is little left that is unknown. What will we find at the end? Will it be God, or will there be nothing?

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A spacey bedroom rock solo album by Sascha Frost ...

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released April 1, 2016

All songs written, recorded, and played by Sascha Frost. Mastered by Nikolay Neskorodov and Sascha Frost. "Beyond the Horizon" lyrics written by Kyle Frost. And a special thanks to Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Slowdive, Pinback, Tame Impala, The Talking Heads, My Bloody Valentine, Starflyer59, and Animals as Leaders for the inspiration!

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Multi-instrumental solo works by Sascha Frost

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