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Underneath Eyelids

by Frau Eva

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1.
Blue Beetle 04:34
The blue beetle crawled 'cross the serpentine floor A blur at the window drew lines to my eyes The floor has returned to it's sleeping wood state The beetle no more, oh the blue has seeped away I hear you calling like a guitar under the sea Dream-like I followed, to your side of the street Your song has cut through tissue and bone Is this what I've waited for You've honeyed my seams But loneliness runs deep You've wrought the air with silver You've led me to believe Circles are moving their lines through the skies A stain that is marking this piece of our lives We're creatures in love with the art and the field And god knows our ears, tangled in the wild wood What grain persists in a dark heart that rests Doubts curl like smoke into shadows better left To feel their way from this chambered bell Is this what I'm waiting for You've honeyed my seams But loneliness runs deep You've wrought the air with silver You've led me to believe What have you done to me The air is split with silver, You've led me to believe
2.
Ivy Vines 03:31
I’m off to join the ivy vines Yes I’m off to join the ivy vines Don’t try to talk me down If you’ve never heard them singing out   ‘cuz in the book that you breathe You just write down what you read When you could cut up every page Any way that you please Or now didn’t nobody ever tell son, You’re free.   You follow the scene and you talk about art But when you get home you’re just playing a part While the man in the street with the leaves in his hair He says he’s the prince of the trees and the air The water and the sky,   Says in the book that you breathe You just write down what you read When you could cut up every page Any way that you please Or now didn’t nobody ever tell son, You’re free.
3.
I once lay face down in the river To hold my breath and count the shivers I was the only young man crying in the water And in the morning ma was yelling at my father But these days it seems the world’s talking about me Though they’re dancing without me, but they say that I’m doing well They say I turned some ship around and it’s not that I wish I drowned It’s just that since I reached the sand I don’t know who I am Oh no. It’s like would you recognize Morrissey smiling With the sun crawling up and hanging from his shoulder? Yeah would you recognize Morrissey smiling Like I betrayed a broken heart, for a quiet daze. Since I left my home all the past feels like I’m dreaming I dreamt I was a man whose soul was worth redeeming. And I miss my family’s sad and graceful weeping willow tree And the mourning dove, my first true love, who cried its lonely tears for me. But I recalled one decent man who said he’d been just where I am And so I asked this battered friend just what is wrong with me He spoke into my ear; he said you have nothing to fear Except having nothing to fear, and that’s your gypsy curse. Oh yes. It’s like would you recognize Morrissey smiling With the sun crawling up and hanging from his shoulder? Yeah would you recognize Morrissey smiling Like I betrayed a broken heart, for a quiet daze.
4.
Howling 04:15
Count the circles round the rain In the swimming pool No one’s ever been cruel to you But your lover’s gone away You’re lost in your thoughts all day Don’t you have anything to say, Anyone to say it to? Or are you just howling at the moon?   Tell me your name I have felt the same I have felt just that way It feels like Christmas day When everyone’s away   You rode horses when you were ten Nothing’s ever been able to compare To the wind in your hair But now your lover’s gone away. You’re lost in your books all day Don’t you have anything to do, Anyone to stick it to? Or are you just howling at the moon?   Tell me your name I have felt the same I have felt just that way It feels like Christmas day When everyone’s away
5.
Pilot 03:58
Pilot's driving underneath his eyelids Momma's taking him home Did you push him further than you maybe shoulda Can't you leave a good thing alone? Sit back tight Rest your mind Mother takes you by surprise She's being cool Oh sit back tight Rest your eyes as Mother takes you by her side She's feeling cool Home can help to save your mind But soon enough there comes a time When too much help can kill itself You gotta find something to find Something to believe in I know you gotta find a place to Go to go to go to go to go Pilots preach about to keep them smiling Papa's slowing down fast If you pushed on could you ever see the finish Who's afraid of leading last? Oh sit back tight Rest your mind Ellis takes you through the night She's feeling cool Oh sit back tight Rest your eyes And know you'll never realize She's being cool Hope can help to pass the time But soon the cuts run deep enough The poor man's leg can't lift itself You gotta find something to feed Something to kill the heat A song can't change his mind But Pilot comes to Comes to come to come to come
6.
Interlude 01:44
7.
I saw you in a dream You spoke in tongues to me And our bodies floated You told me to be free  From god's good company And we burned a flower We'll shine like birds In the sun Shine like birds In the sunset We will forget Everything we can
8.
I can tell when your nerves excite ‘cuz your foot flutters round like it’s tempting flight   Hanging out by the tennis courts, You love to watch the old folks play ‘cuz you were pretty good in your day You got a dream in your quick hand and you’re on your way   In your grey coat in the cold east coast, You gave your heart to the art of French toast Girl, that ain’t no pointless cause, So go ahead and quit your job for bread eggs and applesauce.   Are you just one of those types who lives to be alive? Oh now, if you want my opinion, you’re right on to like What you like what you like what you like what you like what you like. Ladadada oh oh oh ladadada ladadada oh oh oh ladada   I can tell when your nerves excite ‘cuz your foot flutters round like it’s tempting flight   Are you just one of those types who lives to be alive? Oh now, if you want my opinion, you’re right on to like What you like what you like what you like what you like what you like what you like.   So tie all your dreams with a string to your heart It’s okay to forget who we are And we’ll black out the sun with mile long kite and just follow the stars Playing cards in the dark but we don’t what the rules are.
9.
Judgment Day 04:35
  Mary Ann, with a drawl, Asked me how did you get so tall I moved in just a week ago I’d been doing fine, yea I’d been sleeping well But I’m just never satisfied.   There’s no place I can be myself No there’s no place I can be myself She never said a word that meant a thing to me She’s an alien yea she’s just another alien   Feel like the city sky burning through the night. I can’t sleep in this town when I see him around. Don’t wanna step on anybody’s toes But the only thing I love, God knows I stole. And now I’m gonna have to pay. Yeah my judgement day, it is upon me.   Something sad is in my bones Telling me I’m better off back home The meteor across the sky Has no home; it just wants to die.   I went down to the reservoir He was looking dumb, like a movie star He wouldn’t want to talk and, man, I ain’t got nothing to say So just send me off; yeah just throw me away.   Feel like the city sky burning through the night. I can’t sleep in this town when I see him around. Don’t wanna step on anybody’s toes But the only thing I love, God knows I stole. And now I’m gonna have to pay. Yeah my judgement day, it is upon me.
10.
Rowing 03:39
I ran through the forest With you right before me Our feet tracing threads weaving through the bright foliage.   How did we come to be Locked inside this mystery You, after me Me, after the sea   Flying through the trees ‘Til the sky broke That fiery star Clinging to the east.   I stand where the water greets the sand Waves laze gentle upon my skin I see your silhouette at forest's edge Are you a ghost; are you a violet shadow?   Oh but the water’s so cold that these Hollow bones have started shivering You’re in the waves and you’re getting smaller The sand feels warm, but I know it to belie the black water.   Flying through the trees ‘Til the sky broke  That fiery star Clinging to the east.   I meet the sun to burn my skin to leave me standing in These lonely inhibitions and a head of superstition.   I swim away like a creature of  the sea The salt frees   Just like a dream where we were swimming in the bay Except you’re there and I’m still here and I just watch you drift away.   Why have I slipped away The moon cries   These feet won’t move when I want them to These feet won’t move when I want them to
11.
Watercolours 04:18
  In a darkened Corner where The record player’s quiet Our legs are two Mountains on an island   You know I couldn’t try it But I can see it in my eyelids   Head’s still burning with the glow of night You soak it in, but to your surprise, Your friends washed out in the sunrise Now the day all blurs, and thoughts collide Like watercolours on a pane of glass   All these words are Birds born still They hang between our bodies They stain The ceilings like smoke.   And when the cloud has left me Bereft,  the room is empty.   When the music keeps us up all night Soak it in, now to your surprise, Your friends washed out in the sunrise The day all blurs, and thoughts collide Like watercolors on a pane of glass
12.
Lullabye 01:30
Ceiling down In the middle of the night, you came In the middle of the night, I lay awake

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Underneath Eyelids is the debut full length album created by Frau Eva in Butte la Rose, LA and Washington, DC.

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released June 14, 2012

Frau Eva is

David Klinger
Vanessa Degrassi
Billy Noom
Ben Usie

featuring Janel Leppin & Hannah Burris



Recorded by Frau Eva

Special Thanks May Tabol


Mixed by Ivan Basauri in Washington, DC
Mastered by TJ Lipple in Arlington, VA



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