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DREAMBOAT EXPRESS

by DREAMBOAT EXPRESS

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1.
Setting Sail 01:34
For thousands of years, we have gone to sea. We have crafted vessels to carry us and we have called them by name. These ships will nurture and care for us through perilous seas. To them we toast, and ask to celebrate Dreamboat Express. TO THE SAILORS OF OLD…TO DREAMBOAT EXPRESS The moods of the sea are many, from tranquil to violent. We ask that this ship be given the strength to carry on. The keel is strong and they keep out the pressures of the sea. TO THE SEA...TO THE SAILORS OF OLD...TO THE SEA Today we come to name this ship, DREAMBOAT EXPRESS, and send them to sea to be cared for, and to care for us. We ask the sailors of old and the mood of God that is the sea to accept DREAMBOAT EXPRESS as their name, to help them through their passages, and allow them to return. TO THE SEA...TO THE SAILORS BEFORE US...TO DREAMBOAT EXPRESS.
2.
DBX 02:06
We're on the choppy seas Won't stop us going fast We've got a magic compass To future present past If we're boarded by pirates Or arrested by sea patrol Nothing will stop us From sailing to your soul Every day is shark week We could hug a manatee Ithaca is done for Let’s start this odyssey I’m charting a course For your heart-stopping force We’ll sail into the horizon The seas will be fair With us at the helm Climb aboard our dreamboat express Screw gender and monarchy Screw the titanic too It’s anarchy for this world And death for this whole crew Marooned on a island We’re decaying now We’ve cursed dichotomy From the sea up to the clouds If we never reach you We’ve got bottles and paper You’ll hear our message Just look beyond the surf I’m charting a course For your heart-stopping force We’ll sail into the horizon The seas will be fair With us at the helm Climb aboard our dreamboat express
3.
2019 I was young, only 18 In Weston Supermare Living without a care Down at the beach You were hip, and beyond my reach I couldn’t help but stare You winked and tossed your hair Swimming in sand Wish that this day would never end Sandcastles and moats The tide floods all our hopes Pier kissing, summer fun Caught running in the sun I try to make it last But summer’s ending fast Only shade’s between us two I never thought it’d be you ohhh I’m just your summer hat ohhh But you’re my winter shoes In whatever weather It’s always been you Leaves turning brown You gave me no reason to frown Your smile warmed my heart But for you summer was far The branches bare We were old, trying not to care For me it was love But you had had enough Only shade’s between us two I never thought it’d be you ohhh I’m just your summer hat ohhh But you’re my winter shoes In whatever weather It’s always been you I never thought it’d be you Ohhh You were my only one But I was one of few In whatever weather Our skies will be blue The snow starts to fall But you won’t return my calls The sea breeze is blowing cold When I don’t have you to hold I never thought it’d be you ohhh I’m just your summer hat ohhh But you’re my winter shoes In whatever weather It’s always been you I never thought it’d be you Ohhh You were my only one Ohhh But I was one of few In whatever weather I never thought it’d be you ohhh I’m just your summer hat ohhh But you’re my winter shoes In whatever weather Our skies will be blue
4.
You run away with the lie that you’re taking me back You don’t realize you’re giving me a heart attack You gotta take it slow With the one you know You stay out late with your friends in the dark of the night You’ll never find true love til you jump in the light You gotta take it slow With the one you know Waves rise up, pull me out to sea Floating still, do you still think of me? I thought we had a wicker berry love We made this town into a home With our wicker berry love I thought we had a wicker berry love But you strand me on my own With my wicker berry love You’ll return from the sea when the sun shines bright You smile through your teeth, to always dodge a fight You’re putting on a show Expecting me to go You’ve got a new gal but he just ain’t me You’re holding hands in the light, but it cannot be You’re putting on a show Expecting me to go Waves rise up, pull me out to sea Floating still, do you still think of me? I thought we had a wicker berry love We made this town into a home With a wicker berry love I thought we had a wicker berry love But you strand me on my own With my wicker berry love I never knew what I had, but I know it now I walked away in the dark pushing through the crowd These are the seeds I sow Am I a friend or foe? I thought we had a wicker berry love You made this town into a home With your wicker berry love I thought I had a wicker berry love But I made you feel alone In your wicker berry love
5.
Giants 03:17
We’re giants Caught up in your violence Caught up in your fears and insecurities You’re scared of what’s inside of me You’re tyrants Frightened by our silence Locked up in your ivory tower away from strife You’ve never felt real pain in life We’ll unite the nations We’ll define generations You will watch us thrive Standing tall and alive We’ll prove you wrong and survive We’re giants Walking with defiance You’re hating all our rationale and dignity I’ve shown you what’s inside of me You’re tyrants You’ve built yourself a virus Destroying us and never having to look back The system seems to be on track You’ve taken back your crown For control of this town Watching us fall down You have stolen the power Gaining strength by the hour Make us hide and cower You’re blind to what you see You dream a dream for me You’ve lost humanity This is it my friend The final moment from when The ruler’s back will bend This is our blissful end
6.
Apocalypse 03:03
Apocalypse, apocalypse, apocalypse The word you're looking for is apocalypse Apocalypse, apocalypse, apocalypse The four Holtzmann of the apocalypse Apocalypse, apocalypse, apocalypse Dream a little dream of me We've found, we've kissed, we've loved, we've lost Break the barrier we've made, we've shown, we've broke, we've grown Break the barrier We've run, we've liked, we've stopped, we've cried Break the barrier We've bled, we've hurt, we've screamed, we've cursed Break the barrier We've lived, we've prayed, we've sinned, we've died Break the barrier
7.
And all your friends will be there And very soon they will stare Upon the God that could worship them Another day And past the make-up and chill And promises of a thrill The arms come out for the kill The hug is toxic spray And you may pause to find time But very soon there are rhymes Vicious beats ensuring that you March in line I catch a glimmer of hope Beyond the perfume and the soap Someone's whispering… You will never be mine You will not be mine But we will find our grace Away from the misty maze And we will steal our flight Far away from the sweat and lights Somewhere beyond the dry ice The dry ice The dry ice We are beyond the dry ice The dry ice The dry ice Singing beyond the dry ice We sang of stars and the moon Our very soul out of tune It seems the words that we crooned Were written in advance And every step was a cue Each new gesture reviews I walk towards you And create a fun new dance And would it be such a twist If I were to resist And then perhaps you'd insist We breathe another tune It seems we can't see the floor So choking and so impure Ohh hand in hand… We'll be out of this soon Be out of this soon But we will hitch a ride Far away from the smoky tide And we won't sing our song Unless the chords are kinda wrong Somewhere beyond the dry ice The dry ice The dry ice Somewhere beyond the dry ice The dry ice The dry ice We are beyond the dry ice The dry ice The dry ice We are beyond the dry ice
8.
Shipwreck 00:37
Oh mighty and great ruler of the seas and oceans, to whom all ships and we who venture upon your vast domain are required to pay homage, implore you in your graciousness to expunge for all time from your records and recollection the name Dreamboat Express which has ceased to be an entity in your kingdom.
9.
This city beats against me Steady, unwilling to be sedentary Even in the quiet hours I spend Walking home from your apartment The sky never completely dark and me, following the light houses dragging my feet Toward home Toward my room To sleep in fits and starts As sun begins to bloom. I never thought a place could make me At once warm and cold, too young too old, I’m not ready. I need this city like I could never believe Never could have dreamed Ever wanting never to leave I can’t accept the loss I’m scared I’ll have to grieve, I won’t. So I don’t. I want these streets to cling to my face like the spider’s web that I break when the walk to work is a race That purpling train we always take will forever pace through my veins rumbling over my tapping toes to my brain back and forth south and then north carrying us to the sea. To spend a perfect day running cutting our feet on the broken shells of the beach dancing to nonsensical beats glowing, the waves pulling us in washing to shore with their Halloween grin, droplets of sky swim her widening eyes while he’s softly testing his voice. Calling out the chord of the notes, dark little eggs we’ve all been curled up inside we’re finally willing to hatch hands reaching to crack the thin dark lines of the staff, blindly we grasp, tying a knot , linking together our flags in a quick eighth note melody. Catchy and sweet light on its feet bar ending in a semicolon Repeat :|| Repeat :|| Repeat :|| Please repeat Peeling the skin from my fingers, I breathe, skeleton hands poking through a hole in the seat, I think, ‘How can we ever have time? How can I learn to control, to possess this infinitely stretching numbered line?’ To comfortably let the seconds tick by knowingly winking their eyes as they pass like they know the answer to everything I want to ask moving too fast for me to catch them by the hand to whisper, ‘How long will this last? When will I fade cling to shapes in the fog of their past?’ I would happily pale in the shadow you cast. London, wrap me in your suffocating clouds, knot my throat with the quickening breath of the crowds, pleading aloud, ‘JUST LET ME STAY’ Let me always remember the day when the rhythm of my life was broken and rhymes ceased to sound the same. When the weight was unlocked from my chest, freeing my screaming limbs to stiffly stir in their sockets after decades spent immobile, unfurling in the sudden lightness, lifting my chin to the east they cry, ‘STAND UP’, ‘RUN’, ‘FIND WHAT YOU WANT, IT’S HERE’. And I will run to you, all of you, every red bus, every bridge, every blade of green, every droplet of gray, every dark-coated woman hunched in the wind, every corner pub at five o’clock, I will catch your shoulder and squint into your face because I know it’s here if I look. And when I turn you around, you you, when I find you, I will turn you around and think, ‘You look familiar, have we met someplace before? Are you expecting me?’ And I will take your hand and run and every step is counted, a second on the clock is ticking, muttering to hurry. And we'll ride city bikes through darkened parks, your hands reaching up to scrape the stars, I would trade years of my life for one more hour of following your red tail lights, blurred by gathering mist. There will never be enough of this. This. The sudden burst of rain, the sunny day that gently washes our faces in its golden light, the million rings dried upon the bar counter, silently tallying nights. And I will feel the clock’s tick tapping upon my temple and I will clutch you tighter. And when my time is up the chime is loud enough to knock me to the floor, and I will scream, clinging to the furniture, climbing over the dining room table, the slouching sofas of the cinema, the out of tune bar piano, the dented door knob that turns inward, and they will drag me, fingertips cracking, across the cobblestones, desperately tracing my name through the dust our feet trailed across this city. And your image will blur and swim and burn like rain shimmering in the sun and my voice will break and strain, ‘I WANT MORE. I WANT TO ALWAYS FEEL THIS WAY. IT’S HERE. IT’S ALWAYS BEEN HERE.’ But when I click my heels three times I disappear.

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You thought it was a joke.

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released April 4, 2017

Music and instrumentation by EJ Lee
Lyrics by Chay Collins, EJ Lee, and Sean Narborough
Vocal performances by Chay Collins, Nick Hurd, EJ Lee, Jo Mance, and Sean Narborough
With contributions from Ciaran Poole
Samples from "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "Ghostbusters", and "Dream A Little Dream of Me"

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