Once I dreamt I woke up inside a room
All the other dreamers were there
Swaying back and forth with roses on our cheeks
All their eyes were closed
Watch how the clouds move the water
Walking the sky through the sea
Watch how we turn in their shadows
Murdering the world in our sleep
Wish I knew a way to erase these bitter traces
Of the patterns and the powers that we're used to
Poisoning ourselves with intentional deception
Setting fire to every foreign land we come to
Killing every foreign thing we come to
I'm waiting for the hour that we come to
There's nothing else to come to
Once I woke up in a room
All the other dreamers were there
Even as we slept they were sleeping
Nobody knew we were there
Children was written by Liz Harris.
Towards the end of making RUINS I wrote a song that never made it onto the album. Though it felt aesthetically similar, something about the content and energy felt distinct in a way that didn’t fit the rest of the music. I pushed it away, unsure what to do with it, and eventually forgot I’d recorded...