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Sleeping Giants

from Give It Time by Erik Yates

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Sleeping Giants started as a title track for a band of the same name. The SG's second album never came together, but the tune lives on nonetheless.

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Oh, it’s a long way up
to the bottom of your soul
Where the sleeping giants dream up
all the things we think we know
Everything that’s gonna come
And everything that’s gonna go
And everything that ain’t never gonna be

Oh, it’s a long way down
to the beginning of it all
Yeah, it might not seem too far
but it’s one hell of a fall
So stay close to my side
and you may just be alright
With any luck, you’ll make it through the night

And if we get to the other side
We may find we are at war
And if we get to the other side
We may find we have to walk a little more
A little more

The shadows in the dark,
they’re the hardest ones to find
Soon as you do,
They go and scramble up your mind
They’ll show you the way to heaven
And it leads you right through hell
You gotta look for the water from a deeper well

There’s no tellin’ what you’ll find
When you pry away the years
That have covered up the things you thought
We long gone with your tears
You can cry and you can howl
It just might do you right
With any luck, we’ll make it through the night

And when we get to the other side
We may find we are at war
And when we get to the other side
We may find we have to fight a little more
A little more, a little more

Don’t you wanna see the other side of this?
Don’t you wanna run away and hide from this?
When you can’t decide I’ll be here to remind you
I will find you where you lay,
We will see another day

And when we get to the other side
We may find we are at war
And when we get to the other side
We may find we have to fight a little more

credits

from Give It Time, released January 7, 2018
Erik Yates, all instruments and vocals
Don Zimmer, recording engineer
Charlie Wilson, mixing & mastering

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Erik Yates Lyons, Colorado

Erik Yates' many years of touring with his fellow progressive bluegrass pioneers in Hot Buttered Rum have done more than gain him a reputation; they've honed his singing, his songwriting and his work on multiple instruments. All of this is on display on his solo debut, "Give it Time"(Yates plays every instrument on the album), and the result is ones that fans and new listeners alike will cherish. ... more

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