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The Slumber With The Key

by TZARA

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1.
I heard the music so loud I dreamed but never slept I’ve got a secret so proud I screamed but never wept Did the music hear me? Did the music hear me? Am I stuck in a dream? I don’t know what’s real Am I just a girl Dreaming I’m a butterfly? Or do I have really have wings and I’ve been dreaming this whole human life? Am I just a girl Dreaming I’m a butterfly? Or do I have really have wings and I’ve been dreaming this whole human life? ‘Round the old clock it ticks I wait for truth, unveiled I feel a little bit sick from Eating my own tail Did the music hear me? Did the music hear me? Am I stuck in a dream? I don’t know what’s real Am I just a girl Dreaming I’m a butterfly? Or do I have really have wings and I’ve been dreaming this whole human life? Am I just a girl Dreaming I’m a butterfly? Or do I have really have wings and I’ve been dreaming this whole human life?
2.
Flow 03:39
A torrent of data, faces & code Voices and lives that are not my own Cursory stream of curious things Babble like a river below A torrent of tales, triumph & woe Secret and sins that not my own Cursory dream of curious things Flicker with a turbulent glow And I flow And I flow Flow An accidental direct download Memory banks that are not my own Cursory stream of curious things Where do they come from where do they go? A river of data, faces & code Somebody else manifesto Cursory dream of curious things Add them to my portfolio And I flow And I flow Flow
3.
Love, you fall on the floor With the sorrow of every heart All you need is a little break from all this Noise of living with yourself These eyes, this mind A life designed It gets so tiring seeing so much of it All, enthralled By every call I wonder the hallways, full of the dark of it Love, you fall on the floor With the sorrow of every heart All you need is a little break from all this Noise of living with yourself These eyes, this mind A life designed It gets so tiring seeing so much of it All, enthralled By every call I wonder the hallways, full of the dark of it
4.
Melting 03:21
Waking next to you The crack in the curtain lights the room and I am Melting into love Yes, melting into love Waking next to you The flower of tenderness is in full bloom and I am Melting into love Yes, melting into love Do you remember the irises out of the windowpane Do you remember I said I’d never be blue again? Guess that I said it to entertain you But since I fell into this I haven’t been quite the same
5.
ROSIE PROBERT From Duck Lane, Jack Quack twice and ask for Rosie SECOND VOICE is the one love of his sea-life that was sardined with women ROSIE PROBERT ( Softlj ) What seas did you see, Tom Cat, Tom Cat, your sailoring days Long long ago? What sea beasts were In the wavery green When you were my master? CAPTAIN CAT I’ll tell you the truth Seas barking like seals, Blue seas and green, Seas covered with eels And mermen and whales ROSIE PROBERT What seas did you sail Old whaler when On the blubbery waves Between Fnsco and Wales You were my bosun? CAPTAIN CAT As true as I’m here Dear you Tom Cat’s tart You landlubber Rosie You cosy love My easy as easy My true sweetheart, Seas green as a bean Seas gliding with swans In the seal-barking moon ROSIE PROBERT What seas were rocking My little deck hand My favourite husband In your seaboots and hunger My duck my whaler My honey my daddy My pretty sugar sailor With my name on your belly When you were a boy Long long ago ? CAPTAIN CAT Ml tell you no lies The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it Lie down, lie easy Let me shipwreck m your thighs. ROSIE PROBERT Knock twice, Jack, At the door of my grave And ask for Rosie.
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Is that Maya playing piano? Am I back at Beau Soleil? Why won’t the brass be quiet And the cymbals wash away? Discerning my reality Is not my big forte I better try go back to sleep Before the voices have their way When will you learn The game that we play Who do you serve What do you say When will you learn The game that we play Who do you serve What do you say Is that moonlight on ocean? Am I right beside the sea? Or have I died my final death And heavens silvery? There’s a man behind the mirror And that man it isn’t me I better get back into bed Before the faces melt completely When will you learn The game that we play Who do you serve What do you say When will you learn The game that we play Who do you serve What do you say It’s the slumber with the key Unlocking every chest and mystery Level up and get you free To fly where your data streams I’ve been swimming in the river of a dream
7.
He’s left He’s left us all But he left us with greenery And things to enthrall us We’ll never be whole because We are nothing We are all
8.
Oh, where do we go from here? When every pool is full of tears That rust the things that you hold dear And corrupt the dreams with worldly fear?

about

The Slumber With The Key” is an experimental, dreamlike EP inspired by hypnagogia - the hallucinatory state between waking life and sleep.

“I've had a rather complex relationship with the facets of my mental health - perhaps the most most interesting, inspiring, consuming and confusing of them all being my curious perception of reality.

Since I was a kid, I've experienced strange illusionary phenomena, including hypnagogic hallucinations (often auditory and orchestral in nature) hypnopompic hallucinations (sleep paralysis), as well as an extraordinarily vivid dream life.

These blurred boundaries between the "real" and the imaginary have been a source of profound inspiration, constant entertainment, frequent dissociation, and occasional terror.

My upcoming mini-album is about my relationship with dreaming - both in the literal and metaphorical sense. Many of the melodies and arrangements have their origin in hallucinations.
It's not my magnum opus, but it's served its purpose.”
- TZARA

The title comes from Salvador Dali’s description of inducing hypnagogia - to find inspiration, he would “slumber with a key”, The noise of the key falling would wake him before his surreal ideas slipped over the ridge of consciousness.

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released August 14, 2020

“The Slumber With The Key” was written, recorded & produced in TZARA’s bedroom studio, with most instruments played by TZARA herself.

“Butterfly Paradox” features guitar by Aviwe Sikele
“Luck Is The Residue of A Life Designed” features clarinet by Maya Boraine.

The album was mastered by Jumping Back Slash.

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