Lyrically, this is one of my favorite songs I’ve done. I wanted to show the mindset of a speaker that is drawn, but challenged, by the ‘escape’ aspect of dreaming. She’d rather understand and analyze dreams than experience them, and she wonders if this is unfortunate for her happiness.
While the sp...
darling i don’t want to dream anymore,
i want to learn how it works;
i imagine if tears could open
like clocks, maybe they’d
reveal the gears of god,
though I’m not an optimist.
but when the clouds pass the moon,
i’ve adored the light of its heartbeat on us
so somehow I believe in love,
because there’s nothing left.
& i ask “where am i?”
but at least I can say, fuck it—
i’m in love with the sky.
let me die watching
the clouds.
darling i’ve seen how dreams
pour through you—
they enter and they leave;
but I need to scrap every inch
of blood dried over
my porous heart.
why can’t I release love
like rain?
again and again and again and again
and again and again and again
to the dream mechanic was written by Paper latte.
to the dream mechanic was produced by .
Paper latte released to the dream mechanic on Thu Jul 20 2017.