“So turn your ears, you musicians, to silence
Because they only come out when it's quiet,
Their tails brushing over your eyelids…
Oh, wake up, sleepers, and rise from the dead!”

—  Aaron Weiss

The Soviet.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

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