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Cutting Up All Of Our Dreams

from Demon by Tom Slatter

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Cutting Up All Of Our Dreams is a song about the evil little creatures that come out when you're asleep. They look cute, playing in the moonlight, but disturb them and you'll see their teeth.

They're real. Don't say they're not, they are.

There's a version of this with instruments on my subscribers only EP 'Angel', but this is the album version - it's just voices.

My mum is a musician too, she writes choral music. So I sent her the main vocal of this and asked her to arrange voices around my part. That's what this is. We recorded it in a church in Chadwell Heath, north east London.

One of the themes of this album is family. 'Is it Tom?' you say, sceptically. Yes it is, just not in the lyrics. The cover photo was taken by my mother in law, this piece was arranged by my mum and my wife and sister are also on the recording. The scary voices are my brother in law. This is a personal album, and this is the most personal track on it.

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They come out when the night falls
And dance in the streetlights,
They crawl out from their hidey-holes when no-one's there to see.

They kiss under the star shine
Play games in the gutters
Sardines and hide and seek while the waking world is gone

If we just let them play away in the night time
They won't come to the places we sleep

They're nothing but a rumour
A glimpse in the distance
the stories of their tails and teeth have never been confirmed

They kiss you when you're sleeping
Sing songs that you don't hear
They vanish if you stir, or sigh, or call out in your sleep

If we just let them play away in the night time
They won't come to the places we sleep and make mischief
By cutting up all of our dreams

Save us your lies
We all know that they're there
They're all waiting for the night to come
When none of us awake

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from Demon, released July 26, 2019

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Tom Slatter London

A latter-day Victorian street-theatre barker with a guitar promising tales of mystery, imagination, ‘orrible murders and bloody great waving tentacles’ is how Tom Slatter has been described. Since 2010 he has been scaring audiences with six albums and numerous EPs of storytelling songs. ... more

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