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Laughing Dreams

by The Ocular Audio Experiment

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1.
Sweet Dreams 06:29
I’m not sure when It started seemin’ Like maybe things for me Were all through changin’ But ever since then All I’m findin’ Is this rotten sour Bitter feelin’ Where did all the sweet dreams go? Where did all the sweet dreams go? Where did all the sweet dreams go? Where did all the sweet dreams go? I don’t know There’s still that part of me That wants to believe Things could be different I should keep trying But then I look around And I just come back down There’s nothin’ here for me But trouble now Where did all the sweet dreams go? Where did all the sweet dreams go? Where did all the sweet dreams go? Where did all the sweet dreams go? I don’t know Sweet dreams turned to tears Sweet dreams left me here Sweet dreams, it feels so bad Sweet dreams, please come back The Ocular Audio Experiment @2016
2.
Now it seems so different than it was When tomorrow was some dream bubblin’ with fun That laughin’ feelin’ and the butterflies You woke to find that they had passed you by Now it’s strange You’re just here With your face Etched in years All the wonderlands you travel in your time Just to settle for a little peace of mind And look back at how far you’ve grown away From everyone and everything you came Now it’s strange You’re just here With your face Etched in years Do you ever get thinkin’ What have I been doin’? My whole life has passed me by Like I was never even here Isn’t it so weird, gettin’ old? How it happens before you know And then when it starts to seem Not so far to where we’re going Now it’s strange You’re just here With your face Etched in years The Ocular Audio Experiment @2016
3.
I heard you say the saddest thing Maybe you’re not worth your own dreams You believed a long time ago But nothin’ came of them and somewhere you got old It was so clear and then you lost your way Was it The Call you heard or just a sound you made Does it really matter either way? Try as hard as you can things don’t ever change There is no path or sign that shows You can’t turn back, where would you go? Will you get there? You could never know But giving up is saying you won’t I know it makes you mad how phony things are It’s a fuckin’ joke and you got no chance at all You say, ‘whatever it don’t get you down’ But you’re just lookin’ for a reason to stick around There is no path or sign that shows You can’t turn back, where would you go? Will you get there? You could never know But giving up is saying you won’t You find yourself where dreams turns to fire Black smoke rising off the pyre You find yourself where dreams turns to fire Black smoke rising off the pyre Nothin’ says you’ll get a fair shake So let the work you do be the take And though it may not seem like it now The only thing can stop you is your own doubt There is no path or sign that shows You can’t turn back, where would you go? Will you get there? You could never know But giving up is saying you won’t The Ocular Audio Experiment @2016
4.
Alive 03:52
Who knows how long I’ll be around Or where at last my heart will give out But till then, I think I’ll have some fun Let nothin’ hold me back from what I love I’m alive I’m alive I’m alive I’m alive People tell me that I’m crazy But I don’t care what they’re saying What makes it sad is that they think they’re free While all I’m doin’ is just bein’ me I’m alive I’m alive I’m alive I’m alive I feel so happy I feel so happy ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha I feel so happy I feel so happy ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha It’s so borin’ playin’ by your rules I’d rather be a freak than one of your fools You wanna hold me down, but you can’t now I’m past your reach, chasin’ dreams without a doubt I’m alive I’m alive I’m alive I’m alive The Ocular Audio Experiment @2016
5.
The mountain is tall That climbs to the call I’ll try for it Though my means are small Oh it’s so hard Like I might fall down But I’ll do what I can Until my legs give out It’s like there’s less you can know Than back there Just you’re on your own And that you may fail But I won’t be afraid To lose as I am To lose with my heart To lose with my hands It’s so heavy The whole way along But it won’t break me I’m gonna be strong And even when I cry ‘Cause how it’s tough I won’t quit goin’ I won’t ever give up The Ocular Audio Experiment @2016
6.
I sent my brother to war But I sent him to hell a long time before You looked around Saw your only way out And now, you ain’t here no more There’s a door opens for some it seems I can hear you there, knocking But it don’t open for you No matter what you do ‘Cause it’s locked, and I have the keys I could have loved you I could have loved you I could have loved you Better than I did I think of how much we’re the same But the breaks I caught never came your way Still you were happy for me Gettin’ kicked to your knees And I just watched your heart break The Ocular Audio Experiment @2016
7.
Uh Oh 04:29
8.
Set Me Free 05:03
And then, like a fog broke, I could see I was exactly where I was supposed to be I could not believe That through all Of my searching I was never lost Then I turned, and you were there, by my side And I understand how your love had been my guide Every turn I took You seemed to tell There was no path but What lead to myself You set me free You set me free You set me free You set me free I saw all directions revealed like sunrise But I was only looking in your eyes And I knew There was no fear Nowhere to get I was here The Ocular Audio Experiment @2016
9.
God Skulls 06:04
Are we really nothin’ Without our gods? Lost once we wander from the altar hall Hail Hail Hail Hail Will our eyes only open To see what they do? Are there none others left to find Than their truths? Hail Hail Hail Hail If we’re lucky maybe we meet Someone who reminds us to believe But when in return we trade ourselves We lose sight of what they fought to teach For all our heroes are They don’t mean a thing When the limits of their love Are the furthest that we reach The Ocular Audio Experiment @2016

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Alex Pollock of The Ocular Audio Experiment has kept himself busy since the band’s multi-release year of 2012 (The Witch’s Whispering Tomes Parts 1, 2, and Ghoul). After four years of fighting to complete the album, Pollock and The Ocular Audio Experiment are finally self-releasing, Laughing Dreams. In step with the band’s DIY approach, the album was produced, written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Pollock, as described by him, “in three bedrooms and a closet.”

Laughing Dreams is a nine song love-letter experiment to conventional psychedelic rock, folk, doom and pop; drawing on, aspiring toward and blending influences such as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Velvet Underground, High On Fire, Black Angels, Spacemen 3, Mercury Rev, BRMC, Cave In, The Warlocks, Echo & The Bunnymen and a long roster of others. According to Pollock, “The influences that color the album are all groups and individuals who have, for whatever reason, inspired me to try and give the best of myself toward what I like about music, with and by my own means. I just wanted to pay tribute to that spirit and try to do something great without being anybody special, cool or extraordinary.”

Special thanks to:

Molly Kimmerling, Andrew Fisher, Ed Craig, Brad Alderman, Nathaniel Bartrum, Bob Kropf, Brenda Withers, Torie Leigh, Jonathan Fielding, Stacy Fischer

Artwork by Torie Leigh

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released March 22, 2016

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The Ocular Audio Experiment is an American musical project led and started by Alex Pollock. It was started in Somerville, Ma in 2010.

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