How It Happened
from Benthic Lines by Dan Lyth and the Euphrates
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Deluxe Book with CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumSixty page book printed on thick matte paper stock. 13cm x 14cm (CD case size). Contains photographs of the recording process, illustrations of the recording locations, all of the lyrics and a 6000 word short story. Comes with a CD and download code.
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Sixty page book printed on thick matte paper stock. 13cm x 14cm (CD case size). Contains photographs of the recording process, illustrations of the recording locations, all of the lyrics and a 6000 word short story. Comes with a download code (but no CD).
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lyrics
The M8 was closed with drifts on the road
The lorries lay down, made angels of snow
Cars formed a conga but nobody danced
All the brains and the fingers had no freaking chance
Of getting to work, but there was no point
The blackouts remained, the panic was taut
And up in the sky the silver iodide
Lined every cloud high, made every cloud lie
The lines were all down, the days were all dark
Lives were undone and chaos was sparked
The cables installed along ocean floors
Is where we had lived too long for sure
Animals scoffed “Inadequate beasts!”
As digital kids fought over feed
There were fires on the ridges in no time at all
Weirded out voices and bangs on the door*
So we took a boat and sailed it for years
Attacked every month by monsters and fears
Through pestilent storms and cauldrons of sea
Till one day at last the doldrums we reached
Silence of calm. Stillness of sea.
Absence of wind. Banquet of peace.
I sit and write, watch you and the child
I catch a smile, I think we’ll be fine.
* Reference to a line from 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy
The lorries lay down, made angels of snow
Cars formed a conga but nobody danced
All the brains and the fingers had no freaking chance
Of getting to work, but there was no point
The blackouts remained, the panic was taut
And up in the sky the silver iodide
Lined every cloud high, made every cloud lie
The lines were all down, the days were all dark
Lives were undone and chaos was sparked
The cables installed along ocean floors
Is where we had lived too long for sure
Animals scoffed “Inadequate beasts!”
As digital kids fought over feed
There were fires on the ridges in no time at all
Weirded out voices and bangs on the door*
So we took a boat and sailed it for years
Attacked every month by monsters and fears
Through pestilent storms and cauldrons of sea
Till one day at last the doldrums we reached
Silence of calm. Stillness of sea.
Absence of wind. Banquet of peace.
I sit and write, watch you and the child
I catch a smile, I think we’ll be fine.
* Reference to a line from 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy
credits
from Benthic Lines,
released May 12, 2014
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Dan Lyth Fife
From Fife, Scotland. Recently finished recording an album entirely outdoors.
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Oct 2004
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