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Fireflies

by Dead Captain

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Sometimes it's fun to imagine a bleak moment suddenly turning magical, like a funeral morphing into a cabaret, or a morgue suddenly glowing bright under the pulse of frenetic disco lights.

We all love to let our minds wonder and wander and Dead Captain’s new single, 'Fireflies' is all about the warm drifting sensation derived from escapism and the stuttered release of all worries. It's a tune gently plucked from the eye of a hurricane, the calm amidst a storm.
The song summons inspiration from a rucksack of random things like the cobblestoned alleyways of Tameside, petrichor (the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil), Lou Reed, the funeral scene from Milos Forman’s ‘Man On The Moon’, Kim Basinger’s pout, John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’ and early REM.

Fireflies is the band’s fourth release via Stereokill Records (previous singles include, The Fear, Vermillion and Carte Blanche) and the last before they wade chin-deep into finishing off their debut album – due for release in early Spring 2020.

lyrics

Fireflies

Silence broods,

The floating smoke,

Embers rise,

Your tears are ghosts

Drifting down your pale face,

They only pause to take a taste

Of your alabaster skin,

Your blood red lips sat quivering,

Shivering and compromised,

A picture postcard customised

With gothic fonts in gold,

Shimmering as the truth unfolds,

And all those memories that died

Rise high and hook their fingers in the sky

Like fire flies electrified.

Thunder calls,

The mourning rain,

Autumn sings

Its subtle pains,

Worries sink into the ground,

Dissipating drowning sounds,

A stream of thoughts running away,

The stale smells, a passageway,

Naive and oh so cavalier,

As shadows fall you disappear

Into those borrowed dreams

You stitched together from smithereens,

Worn out t-shirts and happenings,

A disregard for the finer things,

You always liked the phrase, ‘bring your own’,

You’re happiest when you roam alone,

Gliding over the cobblestones,

Staring up at the great unknown

As all those memories that died

Rise high and hook their fingers in the sky

Like fire flies electrified.

credits

released October 4, 2019
music and lyrics Dead Captain
Dan Adams
Dunstan Carter
John Havelock
the captain

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Dead Captain Manchester, UK

All we have is a small cardboard box with a scribbled marker pen message, "we could have come through had we neglected the sick".Very little is known about Dead Captain. The box we found is scattered with notes, drawings and recordings. It was discovered outside a charity shop in Ashton Under Lyne. Dead Captain has been brought to life by Dan Adams and Dunstan Carter ... more

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