Biography:
Dan Deacon (born 1981) is a Baltimore, Maryland-based electronic music composer/performer. He attended the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in Purchase, New York, where he played in many bands, including tuba for Langhorne Slim and guitar in the improvisational grindcore band Rated R. He completed his graduate studies in electro-acoustic and computer music composition. He studied under composer/conductor Joel Thome. Currently, he lives at Wham City in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Other songs:
[Verse]
F#
When I was done dying my conscience regained
F#
So I began my struggle a nothingness strained
F#
Out a flash made of time my new form blasted out
F#
And it startled me so and I burst out a shout
F#
At which my legs ran frantic like birds from a nest
F#
And I ran until drained leaving no choice but rest
F#
So I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave
F#
But I should have gone in deeper but I'm not so brave
F#
And like that I was torn out and thrown in the sky
F#
And I said all my prayers because surely I'll die
F#
As I crashed down and smashed into earth, into dirt
F#
How my skin did explode leaving only my shirt
F#
But from shirt grew a tree and then tree grew a fruit
F#
And I became the seed and that seed was a brute
F#
And I clawed through the ground with my roots and my leaves
F#
And I tore up the shirt and I ate up the sleeves
F#
And they laughed out at me and said "what is your plan?"
F#
But their question was foreign I could not understand
F#
When then suddenly I'm ripped up and placed in a mouth
F#
And it swallowed me down at which time I head south
[Chorus]
F#
I said
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
B
Hey hey hey
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
B
Hey hey hey
[Verse]
F#
Well I woke up to see them, these two mighty steeds
F#
With their mouths grinning wildly expressing my needs
F#
As they stood there above me, being flanked on each side
F#
I felt no need to fear them, no reason to hide
F#
So I reached up to touch but they faded too soon
F#
Yet their mouths still remained and stacked up towards the moon
F#
How that ladder of mouth waved so soft in the night
F#
And I looked up in awe at that beautiful sight
F#
And I dreamt about climbing into the night sky
F#
But I know had I touched them they'd mouth back 'bye bye'
F#
So I got up and walked down the path in the dark
F#
And there deep in the distance my eye caught a spark
F#
Of a crab twice my size with incredible strength
F#
Oh it greeted me kindly and then we all drank
F#
And we drooled out together right onto the ground
F#
And the ocean grew quickly right up all around
F#
And the earth looked at me and said "wasn't that fun?"
F#
And I replied "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone"
F#
And without even thinking cast me into space
F#
But before she did that she wiped off my own face
F#
She said better luck next time don't worry so much
F#
Without ears I couldn't hear I could just feel the touch
F#
As I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave
F#
But I should have gone deeper but I'm not so brave
[Chorus]
F#
I said
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
B
Hey hey hey
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
B
Hey hey hey
F#
When I was done dying my conscience regained
F#
So I began my struggle a nothingness strained
F#
Out a flash made of time my new form blasted out
F#
And it startled me so and I burst out a shout
F#
At which my legs ran frantic like birds from a nest
F#
And I ran until drained leaving no choice but rest
F#
So I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave
F#
But I should have gone in deeper but I'm not so brave
F#
And like that I was torn out and thrown in the sky
F#
And I said all my prayers because surely I'll die
F#
As I crashed down and smashed into earth, into dirt
F#
How my skin did explode leaving only my shirt
F#
But from shirt grew a tree and then tree grew a fruit
F#
And I became the seed and that seed was a brute
F#
And I clawed through the ground with my roots and my leaves
F#
And I tore up the shirt and I ate up the sleeves
F#
And they laughed out at me and said "what is your plan?"
F#
But their question was foreign I could not understand
F#
When then suddenly I'm ripped up and placed in a mouth
F#
And it swallowed me down at which time I head south
[Chorus]
F#
I said
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
B
Hey hey hey
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
B
Hey hey hey
[Verse]
F#
Well I woke up to see them, these two mighty steeds
F#
With their mouths grinning wildly expressing my needs
F#
As they stood there above me, being flanked on each side
F#
I felt no need to fear them, no reason to hide
F#
So I reached up to touch but they faded too soon
F#
Yet their mouths still remained and stacked up towards the moon
F#
How that ladder of mouth waved so soft in the night
F#
And I looked up in awe at that beautiful sight
F#
And I dreamt about climbing into the night sky
F#
But I know had I touched them they'd mouth back 'bye bye'
F#
So I got up and walked down the path in the dark
F#
And there deep in the distance my eye caught a spark
F#
Of a crab twice my size with incredible strength
F#
Oh it greeted me kindly and then we all drank
F#
And we drooled out together right onto the ground
F#
And the ocean grew quickly right up all around
F#
And the earth looked at me and said "wasn't that fun?"
F#
And I replied "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone"
F#
And without even thinking cast me into space
F#
But before she did that she wiped off my own face
F#
She said better luck next time don't worry so much
F#
Without ears I couldn't hear I could just feel the touch
F#
As I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave
F#
But I should have gone deeper but I'm not so brave
[Chorus]
F#
I said
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
B
Hey hey hey
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
D#m
Hey ya ya
B
Hey hey hey
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