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From "Night Sweats & Fever Dreams", released June 1, 2020.

Lead vocals and lyrics: Oli Spleen
Piano, Backing Vocals, String Arrangement: Nick Hudson
Violin, Viola: Lizzy Carey
Double Bass, Backing Vocals: Forbes Coleman

An earlier version of this song was conceived by The Flesh Happening in 2003: Spleen, Sumner, Brooke, Cuss.

Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Forbes at Audiobeach Studios Brighton & Hove. Co produced by Nick Hudson.

Video shot, directed and edited by Oli Spleen (through grandma's antique glass) during the Covid19 lockdown. Thanks to Adrian Goycoolea for feedback, tips and advice.

LYRICS:

Go back to sleep, it's just a dream
Toothless, torn from mothers breast
And smashed against the cold concrete
It's just a dream, go back to sleep

Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
The words that every mother said
When wracked and writhing in your bed
And torn apart at every seam
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream

But your dreams don’t offer you distraction
The horrors manifest within your mind
Adrift on a cold sea of strange abstraction
The torment and the terror intertwined

Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
I awake choked with a cotton breath
My mouth stuck shut with gum of flesh
And nothing remains as it seemed
Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream

But my dreams don’t offer me distraction
The horrors manifest within my mind
Adrift on a cold sea of strange abstraction
The torment and the terror intertwined

Go back to sleep, it’s just a dream
My ma once uttered, by my bed
Cut with my fingernails; my head
She’d heal my wounds and help me keep
…my sanity
…go back to sleep
…go back to sleep
…go back …to sleep