The Old Lion

from Astronauto (The Green Album) by Astronauto

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He brings the desert with him wherever he goes/ he feels the skin cracking underneath his clothes/ so bend down the branches and stand on your toes

The old lion has fallen down/ the old lion has fallen down

The king he is mortal for all that we know/ put into power by these laws of long ago/ we feel our hearts sinking as our spirits grow

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And this skin that I'm lying in/ does not feel like my own/ and all these sins that have me crying/ makes me wonder why I have been born

He brings the desert with him wherever he goes/ he feels the skin cracking underneath his clothes/ so bend down the branches and stand on your toes

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from Astronauto (The Green Album), released January 22, 2016
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Astronauto Valley Stream, New York

The music of Astronauto is a sound as peaceful as it is jarring. Introspective folk realism collides head on with expansive electronic dreamscapes, using on the way everything from acoustic guitars to fuzz basses, analog synths to manipulated paint cans. ... more

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