Name: Critters
Duration: P00H04M46S
Description: I never figured it out; how our minds mend and meddle on a dime. There are nights when sleep comes as easily as closing your eyes. But then there are the other nights; when you can't find the off switch for your brain, and the thoughts won't quit. This song was written from the perspective of those thoughts. The nagging little critters that often costs us one of the most important things.

Critters

by Brian Beckford

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I never figured it out; how our minds mend and meddle on a dime. There are nights when sleep comes as easily as closing your eyes. But then there are the other nights; when you can't find the off switch for your brain, and the thoughts won't quit. This song was written from the perspective of those thoughts. The nagging little critters that often costs us one of the most important things.

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We are the Critters in your head
We stand for nothing as we stand
I am a critter. A lonely little critter.
Except I'm not alone, cause in your company I'm better off.
You give me something to do.
You leave me working for you, not against you.

But I don't think you know that I want you.
I know you. I need you to know that I want you, and all that you are. I think you and I are an eye and an eye for an eight on its side.
Only broken backs can carry the world on their own. But you and me .. You and we are a letter away from inseparable.

Cause we are the critters in your head
We stand for nothing as we stand
Dont go to sleep so you won't miss a beat of the songs of the critters in your head.

We are the bitey things that itch you from the inside of your skin.
Shake and shiver kid, cause this time we're alone.
We've built a polygon to keep your creeping jitters squared away, so keep calling on the sun to save the day.
In this shady promenade that you may call your consciousness, we dab and jive and soldier guy upon this borrowed time.
Don't close your open eyes, just keep them steeped in our melodic tune. Prop them up with cries of laughter with the moon.
Don't be scared, it's three AM. There's no one in your room..
But I guess it wouldn't hurt to maybe check under the bed; there may be more of us coming soon.

We made the nights you're gonna remember fondly when your little ones are sucking on their thumbs.
We made the nights you're gonna remember fondly when the apple of your eye flies far away.
We'll always have each other every day.

We are the critters in your head
We stand for nothing as we stand
Don't go to sleep, cause it's you that we need.
Don't go to sleep, sing our song and repeat it.
Don't go to sleep so you won't miss a beat of the song of the critters in your head.

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released June 9, 2017

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