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Dreaming Is Dangerous

by Astrid Swan

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"'Dreaming is Dangerous' was recorded for From the Bed and Beyond, but it was left out to make the album more succinct.

Here it is now for your autumn evenings. It's a song calling for a better treatment of yourself: take care, dream, live now, be kind to yourself and others –– do not mistake yourself for one moment for a stone, not even rose quartz.

With this release, I'd like to say thanks for the year 2017, the amazing support and communication I've had with so many people about life and music. It has been a year of magic and a year of pain." Astrid

lyrics

Again
I have to bury
Wishes upon regrets
All stillborn
Wrapped in plastic and dead

The drama unraveling
Leaves no trace on the surface
Unmoving like a gravestone
I could fool me too

A whole year of it
Took place
Only in my head
The horror is the disconnection
Between the inside and the outside

Dreaming is Dangerous
or is it me

mistaking myself for a stone?

Meanwhile,
face to face with time
I now have certainty
That had I broken through the threshold
The dreaming would have yielded
in living exactly
The thing deemed impossible
by my undisturbed
Uncertainty

It's a self-made cemetery
embarrassing and secret
I am the stonemason
and the idiot brick
I carve me and I encrypt

Dreaming is dangerous
or is it me
mistaking myself for a stone

If I could offer a sacrifice
would it gnaw on the sadness
contently elucidating me

Would I be Phoenix-like
rising unafraid?
No more in a dream state
just me in the mirror
the same one that sings

Dreaming is dangerous
or is it me
mistaking myself for a stone

credits

released October 13, 2017
Astrid – vocals, piano,
Alina – drums
Johannes – saxophone, clarinet,
Mikael – acoustic guitar
Veli – bass

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Astrid Swan Helsinki, Finland

Astrid Swan is a Finnish singer/songwriter who has released six critically acclaimed albums in Finland and internationally. In 2018 Swan won the prestigious Teosto Award for the songs on her album From the Bed and Beyond (2017). She was also nominated for the Nordic Music Prize the same year.
In October 2021 Swan releases her seventh album, D/other.
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