The longest song on Sleep’s The Sciences (at 14 minutes 23 seconds), Antarcticans Thawed tells of the sun melting polar icecaps, which releases an army of previously frozen Antarcticans. They climb a mountain and sail through the sky. Icebergs float towards civilisation to wage war on behalf of the...
Ice cap miles thaw to freedom
Sets free Antarctic legion
Awake limbs, to reach a sun's rays
Blood thaws throughout the unused veins
Antarcticans near the titan's base
Matterhorn's climb initiates
Mountain's highest point receives
Boards the skybarge to cross skysea
Matterhorn's children set free
From slab arise stoned priest
Hierophant sun prevails
Windship at last now sails
Glaciers formate upon the ice age siege
Walk the icebergs toward cities
Glaciers formate upon the ice age siege
Rise the icebergs as war machines
Antarcticans Thawed was written by Sleep.
Antarcticans Thawed was produced by Sleep.
Sleep released Antarcticans Thawed on Fri Apr 20 2018.
Introducing the song onstage in 2009, Al Cisneros called it,
…a new song from a long time ago.