Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 23 hours ago
This is one of 29 songs I have written that will or will not be on the first of 2 EP's that I will put out next year as a musical project (probably under Donker but not necessarily). I usually post up song sessions with my vintage acoustic Guild but strapped on an electric (a cheap one by the way with sketchy intonation) and despite it's shortcomings I love, love, love playing electric from time to time. Shot on my G5 Cell Phone.
This song is called "Graves" and eventually I would love to incorporate a drummer and a cellist as a stripped down but interesting 3 piece or maybe do all band like. As always tell me what you think.
Graves:
Rain washed away your make up
revealing the darkest blue
bruises in the rearview
that won't heal
drag on your cigarette
lungs full of pain
digging graves after midnight
watching the smoke drift away
and it cuts like a knife
and it shines like a diamond
and the hell you had to pay
it never goes away
and the sacred faded glimpse
of a killer killed in the night
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
Love rusts in ruins
flesh becomes words in ink
smeared in the crimson
dancing in bleach down the sink
cross fed the demon
hillsides of flowing green
too strong to be broken
hiding in someone else's dreams
and it cuts like a knife
and it shines like a diamond
and the hell you had to pay
it never goes away
and the sacred faded glimpse
of a killer killed in the night
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
(musical bridge)
Rain washed away your make up
revealing the deepest blue
bruises in the rearview
that won't heal
drag on your cigarette
lungs full of pain
digging graves after midnight
watching the smoke drift away
and it cuts like a knife
and it shines like a diamond
and the hell you had to pay
it never goes away
and the sacred faded glimpse
of a killer killed in the night
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
words and music by Robb Donker Curtius
americanpancake.com
facebook.com/americanpancake
instagram.com/americanrobb
donker1.bandcamp.com
This is one of 29 songs I have written that will or will not be on the first of 2 EP's that I will put out next year as a musical project (probably under Donker but not necessarily). I usually post up song sessions with my vintage acoustic Guild but strapped on an electric (a cheap one by the way with sketchy intonation) and despite it's shortcomings I love, love, love playing electric from time to time. Shot on my G5 Cell Phone.
This song is called "Graves" and eventually I would love to incorporate a drummer and a cellist as a stripped down but interesting 3 piece or maybe do all band like. As always tell me what you think.
Graves:
Rain washed away your make up
revealing the darkest blue
bruises in the rearview
that won't heal
drag on your cigarette
lungs full of pain
digging graves after midnight
watching the smoke drift away
and it cuts like a knife
and it shines like a diamond
and the hell you had to pay
it never goes away
and the sacred faded glimpse
of a killer killed in the night
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
Love rusts in ruins
flesh becomes words in ink
smeared in the crimson
dancing in bleach down the sink
cross fed the demon
hillsides of flowing green
too strong to be broken
hiding in someone else's dreams
and it cuts like a knife
and it shines like a diamond
and the hell you had to pay
it never goes away
and the sacred faded glimpse
of a killer killed in the night
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
(musical bridge)
Rain washed away your make up
revealing the deepest blue
bruises in the rearview
that won't heal
drag on your cigarette
lungs full of pain
digging graves after midnight
watching the smoke drift away
and it cuts like a knife
and it shines like a diamond
and the hell you had to pay
it never goes away
and the sacred faded glimpse
of a killer killed in the night
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
sweet dreams
words and music by Robb Donker Curtius
americanpancake.com
facebook.com/americanpancake
instagram.com/americanrobb
donker1.bandcamp.com
