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Slept (since cassette demos 1997)

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. . . continued from Brief & Boundless (since cassette demos 1997) . . .
	Insomniacs unite!

All we wanna be is knocked out.

We engage, hypnotically awake, lying there, wondering which where we’re within.

It doesn’t matter in the end. 

Everything’s an illusion — might as well be lying down for it.
	This one, Shaker (later changed to Slept) was written in that limbo state — between stupors. I was even teetering when I recorded the final version for Since.
	Physically, at the time, I was also between many locations — a living postcard.
. . . self portrait by another photographer . . .
Slept AKA Shaker (since cassette demos 1997):

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