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Don't Speak Don't Breathe

from Illusion of Consistency by Surplus 1980

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lyrics

Don’t Speak Don’t Breathe

Don’t let me sing
Don’t let me speak
Don’t let me sing
Don’t let me

Speak!
Breathe!
(Breathe…)

We
Don’t
Want
To
Be
Infected
We
Don’t
Want
To
Be
Affected
(We)
Cover
To
Be
Effective
Not
Catch
Your
Breath

But
Those
Who
Are
Neglectful
Are
Ones
Who
Catch
Death


But we
We need to breathe
We breathe
We wheeze
Apart from one another

Isolate, Separate
Survive to see another day
And die later in days to come
We are masked within a veil
Muffled words not so clear
Covered up in a protective shield

We may sing and let us go
We may shout and let all know
We could talk and speak words

It’s
latch
on
Inhaled
Transmission

It’s caught in you, It’s now in you

Do
Not
Breathe
Until
It
Is
Absolutely
Safe

It will get worse before it gets worse

May you please come out alive, come out alive.
Live!

credits

from Illusion of Consistency, released December 15, 2023
Don't Speak Don't Breathe
(Words: Staiano/Music: Staiano, Murphy, Wolter)
Moe: drums, claps, vocals
Melne: bass, vocals
Bill: guitar

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Surplus 1980 Oakland, California

Masterminded by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Moe Staiano, Surplus 1980 is a whip-smart musical collective from Oakland, CA. Taking cues from the angular punk bands of the 1980s, Surplus 1980 fuses a fierce, muscular attack with experimental out-jazz and couples that with Staiano's playful lyrics, updating the angular rhythms of post-punk's old guard to a modern-day soundtrack of uneasy listening. ... more

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