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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The "Swirl" album is a collection the remastered recording from the first cassette Sleeping Dogs Lie released in 1995 as well as ten new songs. This 22-song album captures the 4-track grit and love that really started SDL and inspired the 20+ years of music and lyrics...

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    There are only 5 copies of the original release from Sleeping Dogs Lie. These 12 songs were later remastered as the first 12 songs for the "Swirl" cd. These 12 songs were chosen from over 100 4-track songs that I had recorded over two years of non-stop 4-track experimenting. Thank you for your old school retro love.

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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 8 sleeping dogs lie releases available on Bandcamp.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of mud & sky, La Luz, Trieste, Swirl, Head first down the stairs, Nude, Slightly confusing to a stranger, and joy. , and , .

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1.
Archie Swirl 03:36
She is brave as an airplane As day, as the night fades away Well didn’t they tell you That it’s never too late Never too late, It’s never too late, to unhate He’s an almond young man Dreaming of a civil war Torn through his soul They flushed his ashes Down the toilet bowl Mother doesn’t know Anyone that would go And all the time, The girl that he loved She crushed his skull And then she got down and prayed that maybe one day she would find someway someway someway someway to unhate
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I fell from dissent Living in the here and now I can’t sleep I can’t eat I can see the enemy I can’t sleep I can’t eat I can see the enemy Among us I must not be The only one Raped before The starting gun I can’t sleep I can’t eat I can see the enemy I can’t sleep I can’t eat I can see the enemy I can’t sleep I can’t eat I can see the enemy Among us Lennon’s Revolution Selling Nike Air Jesus in Adidas It’s only fair I can’t sleep I can’t eat I can see the enemy I can’t sleep I can’t eat I can see the enemy Among us
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her light fills the sky believe the thunder another wingless saint that was crushed under she begged and bleed me with her green forest eyes turned to stone beneath the rusted skies my girl firefly was diamonds she is shining shine she cradles her gentle shell she drives her light into me a feeling from above i stumble to my knees she begged and bleeded me with her bitter pills sometimes I think I’m the one buried in those hills my girl firefly was diamonds she is shining shine
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Sally 01:46
Sally is quite pretty and I wish that I could squeeze her dogs she’s lookin’ pretty scruffy with that boy she calls her friend I never thought I’d see the end of Tony he’s not lonely ask his friends they think he’s gay hurray for Tony he’s as happy as a cat his other girl is fat hey now hey she pays the rent sally’s bent she wants him back to vent her anger she would snack on candy... doughnuts hey, don’t you miss me? Don’t you miss me? I can’t live without you... sorry baby life sucks doughnut?
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I’m living the redneck flick with the black gospel ads the Treasury of Christmas ain’t so bad afterall high five on the dead guy I am the only one with his eyes hot Milkduds and the last Pepsi swig ‘Zo’s back in town the world is going down and Art sold out the Browns high five on the dead guy I am the only one with his eyes put me down to sleep and save the hairless sheep I’ve seen better days on a cliff infested leap high five on the dead guy I am the only one with his eyes
7.
Wasted sea 04:58
the sky is falling oh how appalling can man become we seed the flower fields with the asphalt wheels money makes no deals burning milky seas spill milk industry cups full of greed take my hand as we tumble through this wasted sea dropping acid tears buried golden years mother don’t need me she held this land when I was sand in the palm of her hand strip mining scabs a single cancer stabs into her chest tumors graze the dirt mother’s belly burnt we’re not the world take my hand as we tumble through this wasted sea green plants trees in the lumber yard I think too hard burning and churning we’re the dinosaurs learning on our gluttonous lard we’re the germ the villainous worm we take what we earn and spend the rest
8.
In 02:20
my love is going in insane or self-mutilation I am in I love the fire I’ve been contaminated I’m in the sin I’m in I’m in I’m in
9.
Oscar 01:57
Hey Oscar run down to the store I have this craving for bacon grease don’t get Sizzlean or gasoline on the way I need you to spend the rest of your money on beef jerky hot ‘n spicy or maybe some Jawbreakers I’m as hungry as a fatboy on a farm I’ll take the Grand Slam with the chinch bugs pass the maple syrup the kings of Persia never ate like this it all looks so good I just can’t decide I lied I’m not hungry afterall let’s torch the mall and watch the children running out ha... Oscar you know with any luck we’ll get the car keys and well I’m feeling kinda dizzy maybe I should lie down and tell you about the rest of my life I really hate being the bionic man you know I always wanted to work for the government like you and wear those cool glasses but life’s a bitch She’s breakin’ up she’s breakin’ up oscar where are you? She’s breakin’ up she’s breakin’ up oscar what do i do?
10.
Teardrop 03:49
she is the reason for the sun her teardrop eyelines everyone she’ll never know alone she spreads her wings around me I feel the crush of a thousand men she breathes into me I’ll never know alone she is the reason for the sun her teardrop eyelines everyone
11.
she’s big and brown and round the block I like drive ‘er silly I like to take ‘er in to town and show off my big willie she got ‘er name from way back in 1973 saw ‘er on the Dukes of Hazzard and I knew she was for me I want to play with my big brown Willie Willie’s needs to change ‘er ways some say Willie is a tourist killer well Willie’s all I’ve got and Willie’s all I need I want to play with my big brown Willie
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Phone home 00:49
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had a bomb in the fast-food bag left it on the Senate floor to clean the house two days later then the Feds arrived knockin’ on my door I was the last man out alive drove all night to Utah in the north got a job in Provo in the puppet show I used to be a dealer in D.C. contributions misspent and the NRA wants to talk to me I never should have run from the police fun government cheese they said they’d find me I moved to Santa Fe bought a gun and stole a Pinto just for fun I drove it back to Washington to Meet the press but when I got there the Feds made the arrest the NRA pled no contest from their knees fun government cheese
15.
red onion rolling rocky river flowing downtown taxi man checkers yellow fever flys open don't you know it all comes and goes with my shoe salesman commission painters of the sea the reasons of my way out in the boon docks my pay late again today it's Wyoming in the spring. a running shoreline sages into the seat of the drivers stop in the red for loading the ocean width of a cattle ranch dressing and the salad days are here to stay on top of things don't get me down it's Wyoming in the spring. New world order of fries with that's life in the big city bankruptcy scandals in the big house on top of the hill top dogs bark in the night life jumping to the beat the hell out of me and you are forever in a day light dawns upon us and then again the magic wand waved us from above all else I love the one you're with this thought I thee wed his high school sweetie is her pet name the capital of Wyoming in the spring me out of jail tonight it's Wyoming in the spring. one more wish upon a star fish in a tank the whole idea of men of the twentieth century fox release the summer time blues it's Wyoming in the Spring. man walk the stage a come back from the dead of night we spend the spring in Wyoming.
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You're too old to ride a pony get off old man and save your money you look like an ass in front of Target I think they were shootin' for a younger market ya got a stack of change so you parked it all rides are a quarter You're too old to ride a pony get off old man and save your money the kids are cryin' cause they want their turn but some old folks, hell, they never learn security came and unplugged the ride there's always Wal-mart
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Europa 02:17
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Yellowbeat 00:52
Yellowbeat, yellowbeat I wanna get my beat on Yellowbeat I love yellowbeat Everybody sing along Yellowbeat, yellowbeat I wanna get my beat on Yellowbeat I love yellowbeat Everybody sing along Yello Beat FM
20.
Combover 03:36
he's got no hair on the middle of his head he could use a rug or drugs instead but he prefers to keep his cranium natural he swoops his hair so the peeps don't know he's bald he's got a combover on his head it’s like something dead has found a bed why can't he see it why can’t he see that thing? he went swimming and the brown mass came to life it left his head, was it looking for a wife? they could reproduce and make a fine quaff but I'm outta this pool because that thing could come off he's got a combover on his head it’s like something dead has found a bed why can't he see it? why can't he see it? he's got no hair on the middle of his head he could use a rug or drugs instead but he prefers to keep his cranium natural he swoops his hair so the peeps don't know he's bald he's got a combover on his head it’s like something dead has found a bed why can't he see it why can’t he see that thing? why can't he see that swirly thing? why can't he see it?
21.
Ain't nothin' like a mom & pop somethin' like Caroline's Chocolate but they’ll shake your little stand sugar turns to sand I just want to stick it to the man Ain't nothin' like a honkey customer I'll take his money but no sir do you know who I am? no, I don't give a damn I just want to stick it to the man Ain't nothin' like a dynamite suit 72 virgins will think I'm cute my million little pieces each an angry Spam I just want to stick it to the man
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In every music store in the world There's always one guy Who has to play his guitar Louder and more annoying Than any human alive DON'T BE THAT GUY.

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The "Swirl" cd (2007) is a 22-song compilation cd of 12 remastered songs from the original 1996 Sleeping Dogs Lie cassette debut as well as 10 more songs recorded in 2006-07.The lo-fi indie rock songs were originally recorded on a Tascam 4-Track recorder and have been remastered. Though this release is a patchwork collection of new and old, it contains the earliest Sleeping Dogs Lie songs that inspired the entire long term recording effort by songwriter Eric Guenette.

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released January 1, 2007

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sleeping dogs lie Albuquerque, New Mexico

Sleeping Dogs Lie is lo-fi experimental indie rock with a focus on songwriting. There have been eight album releases since 1997. 100% of the proceeds from album sales, downloads and streams go to charity.

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