Name: Be Happy (White)
Duration: P00H03M07S
Description: Demo 2012

Be Happy (White)

from Demo 2012 by Sunlight Alumni

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Cocoons of finger prints line the halls of this maze. There’s a hole in every hand.
At every dead end there’s a headstone marked innocence.
One at Highgrove and Live Oak.
The rocks at Battle Acre.
Ain’t no coals to burn in this hearth.
This city is driftwood.
Set sail. Take flight.
On rusty little fingers my will scrambles.
My father built me paraffin dreams out of radiant conch shell hearts.
Broken little fingers take a breath from every valve. Shower my head in hubris.
The pupils of my feathered muscles tense, we’ll reach the sun by headfall if we give up now and turn from our wicked ways that keep us surging.
Under Hanover’s embrace.
Sunlight my home, savage sea my god.
My heart is missing nuts and bolts.
Christ built me broken.
Climb the scaffolding of that beautiful church.
And when I get to the top I’ll watch oleander burn. This city I leave behind.
The maze of my fathers pride.
The minotaur cherished inside.
All leveled by my wings.
The light cast by this desolate shadow.
The shit I once believed.
Pour out your homes on where ever you rest.
From the fall of a boy, I now know what’s best.
From waters above. To waters below.
I became a man.

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from Demo 2012, track released March 30, 2012
Recorded on March 28th, 29th, & 30th at Think Sound Studios in Greensboro, NC. Mixed, Mastered, and Engineered by Drew Fulk.

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Sunlight Alumni Wilmington, North Carolina

Four individuals with an unhealthy obsession with music. We take all the music we've ever enjoyed and strive to incorporate into one band.

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