The Naked Sun's debut LP, "War With Shadows," is now available on 12" vinyl - hear the record the way it is meant to be heard, on wax! This limited edition vinyl record includes the original studio track-listing, as well as an alternative hi-res photo of the band. All purchases include a digital download of the entire album as well as the full lyrics on the inside sleeve of the record so you can sing along to your favorite Naked Sun hits!
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The debut album by the Naked Sun - War With Shadows - is now on CD! CD includes lyrics for all the songs so you can sing along! Original artwork by Drew's wife, Hannah Lacy Myers! Free digital download of the full album!
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[We] went to war with shadows
And smoke signaled our retreat
We held our heads in winter hats
And snowshoes on our feet
We hid in order to find a freer expression of ourselves, away from parents, and teachers, and bullies, and popular culture. We found refuge in substance, each other, and solitude.
Clinging to a feature
Unless features do deform us
Seeking something to dig up
It was so enormous
But it was all that we knew…
We retreated to deprogram because we knew something wasn’t right. The story that was written for us was not the story we wanted to live, and we wanted to write it on our own and with each other. This was a daunting task, but it was a war worth fighting. The only war we felt worth fighting. A never ending war.
One by our secrets laughed in our sallow faces
Never looking so concerned, nor stopping to replace us
But the call it never stopped we just started listening
To the muted echo of a temporal awakening
As we got older we forgot about honesty, and started lieing, but only to ourselves, and so, the war continued, and we soldiered on.
A fall, something new
Through it all, we grew
Behind stars, and closed doors
Hide at all costs
Our retreat became our disguise, our bravery our crutch, our solitude was hiding, our foxhole held our regret. What did we find of ourselves, and what were we left with?
A ghostly image forms
In the spaces that replaced us
Spinning little leaves
Like an unknown galaxy
Becoming who we never wanted to be, the enemy, is the ultimate result of war, of all wars. Dropping bombs and killing the innocent, inheriting the narrative that was written for us destroyed us, and so, we destroyed ourselves. All that is left is hope, a fallow promise for the privileged. A new language dead upon arrival.
But our memories will fill dictionaries with dead languages
Futures tongue’s creations most likely an imitation
Of a song that we knew
Wishing something would come true
A wish cried into a night sky, upon a star, the only one we know, the creator, indifferent to our cries, burning us alive and giving us the only life we know.
Behind stars and closed doors
Hide at all costs
A hope for a new world beyond definition and comprehension.
lyrics
When we went to war with shadows
Smoke signaled our retreat
We held our heads in winter hats
And snowshoes on our feet
Clinging to a feature unless features
Do deform us
Seeking something to dig up
That was so enormous
It was all that we knew
From the fall to the stoop
Behind stars and closed doors
Hide at all, all cost
One by one our secrets laughed
In our sallow faces
Never looking so concerned
Or stopping to replace us
But the call it never stopped
We just started listening
To a muted echo of
A temporal awakening
A fall something new
Through it all we grew
Behind stars and closed doors
Hide at all costs
A ghostly image forms
In the spaces that replaced us
Spinning little leaves
Like an unknown galaxy
But our memories will fill
Dictionaries with dead languages
Future's tongues creations most likely
And imitation
Of a song that we knew
Wishing something would come true
Behind stars, and closed doors,
Hide at all, all cost
credits
from War With Shadows,
released January 26, 2018
Drew Harris - electric guitar and vocals
Tim Campbell - electric guitar and backing vocals
Ken Letherer - bass
Dave Gladney - drums
Alan Sheltzer - organ, piano, keyboards
Nerissa Jaucian - backing vocals
Fronted by singer-songwriter, Drew Harris and guitarist Tim Campbell, the Naked Sun have been a staple of the Philadelphia
music scene since forming in 2011. Harris and Campbell are joined by Dylan Mulcahy on drums, Tom Tusler on bass, Alan Sheltzer on keys, and Bradley Moser on lead guitar....more
Simple finger picking with haunting vocals, perfect arrangements and top notch production make this my favorite album for chillin'. Think croissant: each buttery layer creates a mouth watering treat. The Naked Sun
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