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Sublimate EP

by WATERSTRIDER

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1.
Consume You 03:21
Step no further from me I don’t owe you nothing I could use your company Fear will feed the hungry It’s all for you ’til I consume you From these open moments, pressing forward progress We will split and divide Eat the sun and moonlight It’s all for you ’til I consume you I don’t need it, no I won’t fear it, no Just keep breathing now I don’t need it I won’t fear it Just keep breathing
2.
I take a breath I take the wind in Counting my fears on every finger I must confess I have been useless Wasting my years; not getting younger I’ve fallen Surrendered Can’t get my eyes in focus The vision is centered right at the end of sequence I am a whisper of the past now I should be dead I catch a glimpse of something moving out of my head and into the water I’ve fallen Surrendered Can’t get my eyes in focus The vision is centered right at the end of sequence I’ve fallen Surrendered Can’t get my eyes in focus The vision is centered right at the end of sequence
3.
Dream Dust 03:44
Artifice of the body Turned again, just the same I could let you be part of me A tiger will not be tamed Beauty break the love we make Oh, how you terrify me! Oh, won’t you sacrifice me? Hold the stone to be fearless. Smile a spell at the sky. Rest on hope when it’s all a mess. Keep the spark in your eye. Turn the key, the dead will sing Oh, how you terrify me! Oh, won’t you sacrifice me? We only want what we need Give up the fear to be free
4.
Spirit House 03:32
Burn my skin before your altar Wounds and wonders made to feel brand new Step by step I’ll never falter Strangle all these words for something true All we have is love When the rest give up Be a warrior of truth Keep it all right here with you Washed in leaves and pulled from ember Such a vision I would never move Bitter follows sweet like honey Every single sound I speak for you All we have is love When the rest give up Be a warrior of truth Keep it all right here with you Never fall again All we have is love When the rest give up Be a warrior of truth Keep it all right here with you Never fall again Only rise
5.
Sublimate 04:10
Sleep now, naked in the sun Barebones Now no harm will come Open Mercy set me free Burden of my Memories Slow down Be wise Don’t strain to shut your eyes You’ve lost control This heaviness you hold Laid the cards a thousand times Turning over in my mind Fictions keep me in my place Desire, I burn and sublimate Slow down Be wise Don’t strain to shut your eyes You’ve lost control This heaviness you hold Violence Pull me apart at the seams I am only awake in my dreams I’m flying high above you

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In these songs we find Waterstrider transforming disconnection and despair into feelings of hope and love. We see someone who is deep in contemplation, but also satisfied with where they have washed ashore. Quite literally sublimating darkness into light, Waterstrider finds that even in the most torturous moments of death and despair, "all we have is love."

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released May 21, 2021

All songs written by Nate Salman
except "Consume You" written by Nate Salman and St. Francis Hotel

Produced by Nate Salman and St. Francis Hotel

Mixed by St. Francis Hotel

Mastered by Bijan Sharifi

Cover Photo by Mark Girardeau
Edited by Daisy Finetto

All songs performed by Nate Salman and St. Francis Hotel except:
Bass and Bass Synth on "Spirit House" by Luke Bace
Drums on "Spirit House" by Walker Johnson
Strings on "Sublimate" by Anton Patzner

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New album, Overturned, is out now:

waterstrider.bandcamp.com/album/overturned

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