Open Your Houses (Basilisk)
Shearwater * Track #7 On Animal Joy
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Album Animal Joy
- #1Animal Life
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- #2Breaking The Yearlings
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- #3Dread Sovereign
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- #4You As You Were
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- #5Insolence
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- #6Immaculate
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- #7Open Your Houses (Basilisk)
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- #8Run The Banner Down
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- #9Pushing The River
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- #10Believing Makes It Easy
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- #11Star Of The Age
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- #12I’m So Glad
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Open Your Houses (Basilisk) by Shearwater
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This album does its title justice through Shearwater’s forays into electricity/discord and the anthropomorphic elements of the lyrics. this song is alternatively titled “Basilisk”: a monstrous snake originating in Greco-Roman mythology with the power to kill with its eyes.
Open Your Houses (Basilisk) Lyrics
I was still life
I was pinned inside of a photograph
When I realized
You had slipped outside of the scenery
With only what you need to survive
So why did you come to me?
If you are looking at the enemy
Open up, open up, open up
Open your houses
Open up, open up, open up
Open your houses
I was waiting
I was reconstructing a memory
Unbelieving
In the changes looming inside of me
The pulse of an irregular life
But why did you turn away?
Before the horn sounds
Over the dark terrain
And the weapons of the enemy
Open up, open up, open up
Open your houses
Open up, open up, open up
Open your houses
And let in the night
Open up, open up, open up
Open your houses
Open up, open up, open up
Open your houses
Come into the night
Open Your Houses (Basilisk) Q&A
Who wrote Open Your Houses (Basilisk)'s ?
Open Your Houses (Basilisk) was written by Jonathan Meiburg.
When did Shearwater release Open Your Houses (Basilisk)?
Shearwater released Open Your Houses (Basilisk) on Tue Feb 28 2012.