The alarm clock wakes you up,
you are dizzy for a moment.
Then your heart begins to race
and your stomach feels weak.
So many thoughts flash through your mind,
so much to do and remember.
Before you even get up,
you already feel exhausted.
Now just lie still,
just stop everything.
Put the blanket over your head
and disappear.
Back to the time-out of sleep,
back to this little world
that only belongs to you
and nobody can look into.
But you couldn't fall asleep now anyway
and the known routine can start.
Leg one, leg two, just get up,
step by step against this feeling.
And in fact
with the cold water the paralysis seems to disappear.
Somehow it can start now,
day 1, week 48.
But hey,
do you realize?
There's something really wrong.
And that you can't run away from it
because it's part of you
and it will certainly welcome you again and again.
And at some point the sleep disappears,
you wake up in the middle of the night.
And the more you want to go back to sleep
the less you succeed.
So you start reading
but nothing gets through to you.
It is a doom-loop
that really scares you.
credits
from As You Are,
released September 12, 2018
Benni Jud - bass, Jan-Philipp Wiesmann - drums, Christian Ott - git, Marcel Schechter - keys, vocals
London producer juxtaposes aggressive hip-hop and dubstep beats with shadowy ambient synths and soft, crackling samples. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 2, 2023
Avi Buffalo had a hand in producing this cassette of Lowpines' serene, self-described "Lo-fi-Anglo-Americana pop songs." Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 28, 2016