Dream House Lyrics
Hindered by sober restlessness
Submitting to the amber crutch
The theme in my aching prose
The theme in my aching prose
Fantasizing the sight of Manhattan
Fantasizing the sight of Manhattan
Manhattan
That pour of a bitter red being
That escapes a thin frame
A bitter red being
The rebirth of mutual love
The rebirth of mutual love
The slipping on gloves to lay
The slipping on gloves to lay tenderly
The slipping on gloves to lay tenderly
The slipping on gloves to lay
The slipping on gloves to lay tenderly
The slipping on gloves to lay
Slipping on gloves
Gloves, gloves
Slipping on gloves
About
The opening track of Deafheaven’s 2013 album Sunbather, a grandiose prologue to an album that blends post-rock, black metal, and shoegaze influences.
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Like, on “Dream House”, that conversation is really a conversation I had with this girl I was totally in love with. I was really hammered one night and was texting her, like, “How are you?” She’s like, “I’m dying.” And I was like, “Is it blissful?” She said, “like a dream.” And I said, “I want to dream.“ It sounded nice at the time. So I wrote that text conversation down, and two years later, when I was working on that song, I thought it fit because it sums up the contrast between this big, beautiful ending and this big, tragic ending.
—George Clarke, 2013 Pitchfork interview
- 1.Dream House
- 2.Irresistible
- 3.Sunbather
- 5.Vertigo
- 6.Windows