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In Chains (EP)

by Dead Heart Bloom

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    Immediate download of the 5 song In Chains EP in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. Download includes lyric sheet.
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  • Combo package of all 3 EPs from the 2008 Dead Heart Bloom series. Package includes three, 4-panel, full color EPs, with interlocking artwork designed by Frank + Victor design from Austin, TX. Bonus Dead Heart Bloom stickers and immediate digital download of the 'In Chains' EP included.
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  • The entire Dead Heart Bloom physical product catalog including: the self-titled debut; "Chelsea Diaries"; the 3 EP seres ("Fall In", "Oh Mercy", and "Fall In"); and the latest release, "Strange Waves". Package includes free stickers (click on the image above for a larger photo).
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1.
Flash In A Bottle (free) 05:45
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Flash in a bottle pass it around, your sons and daughters will lay it down, careful to let it not touch the ground flash in a bottle pass it around. I left the morning you got the call, father was breaking down in the hall, your sister cried like she’d never done before— flash in a bottle broken and torn. He was a fighter making the rounds, taken to slaughter without a sound, never was angered when they ran him out of town, flash in a bottle hitting the ground. She moves her lips as she’s reading the note he wrote that morn in the words of a poet: ‘I bid you farewell though I know not where I’m going, like a flash in a bottle left and alone.’ Flash in a bottle don’t let us down, give us no warning where you are bound, set like a sun that’s gently laying down, flash in a bottle— broken but proud.
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Falling Toward Goodbye 02:35
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I spent a lifetime with another when it was you I wanted all along. That night you held me close and I became afraid—it was then I lost us both forever. We fall toward goodbye never thinking it will end and wake to find that time is a careless friend. So choose your moment and be patient because every word is precious now. Go to her, or you will lose her love for good— a life is useless if you break it. We fall toward goodbye never thinking it will end and wake to find that time is a faithless friend.
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Halfway Gone 04:16
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Oh my, it’s a sentence passed by a crowd of failures afraid for their lives. But you should know what you already know: that that is only a state of the mind. Oh no, oh no, you’re breaking my heart, I know, I know, they’re breaking you down, don’t let them sow doubt in what’s already halfway gone. Go home. Get some rest in your soul and don’t come back until you’re ready for more. Don’t you stop until you’re ready to drop down from a great height you’ve never believed in before. Oh no, oh no, you’re breaking my heart, I know, I know, they’re breaking you down, don’t let them convict you for being a halfway gone.
4.
Farther Than You 04:25
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You’re so numb losing all that time to a muse that refuse to rise so give it up this time the more you fail the more you’re trying mama don’t you come back and make of him a fool. You’ve a tale to tell but your tongue’s all tied you got a voice but the voice run dry it’s cracking like your throat’s on fire you’re never going to find your style you got a song but it’s not living like it should you got a feeling but the feeling don’t feel very good. I’ll keep to singing this until it goes right there’s no small comfort in wanting to try but you’re much wiser than I so I’ll fall farther than you. You got a dream and a wounded pride bleeding out like a Memphis sky don’t you ever dare to fly sit your soft self down and die you’re not coming back jack like you said you would and it’s getting so bad it don’t even matter if you could. I’m not too good at this, I’m much to shy. Is there no place in the soul for me to hide? You dream smaller than I so I’ll fall farther than you. I’m much too sad for this I don’t know why but there’s no shame in once wanting to cry. You’re much stronger than I so I’ll fall farther than you.
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Impossible New City Dream 02:04
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Go to sleep. Don’t ask your body to repeat the day, Go to sleep, my darling, go to sleep. Not every dream will always become reality that’s the way the city goes to sleep. Go to sleep. Don’t ask your mother to repeat her song, So long, my darling, go to sleep. There’ll come a day when all your dreams will sway like dreams will sway but not today, my darling, not today.

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The third, and last, in a series of 2008 Dead Heart Bloom EP releases. Each EP in the series explores a different musical style: Fall In (dream pop); Oh Mercy (rock); and In Chains (ambient folk).

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released December 31, 2008

Written, recorded, and produced by Dead Heart Bloom. Mastered at The Lodge, New York, NY. Cover design by Frank + Victor, Austin, TX.

Boris Skalsky (vocals, keys, guitars, bass)
Paul Wood (guitars, keys)
Nathan Goheen (bass)
John Hadfield (drums)
Caleb Burhans (violin/viola)
Rubin Kodheli (cello)

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Dead Heart Bloom is the band formed by Boris Skalsky following the dissolution of his previous group, the Washington, DC- based Phaser quickly joined by guitarist Paul Wood. Since then, the Dead Heart Bloom live lineup has continued to evolve and includes former Longwave drummer Jason Molina. ... more

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