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A Collection of Creatures

by Johnny Hollow

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Pangaea 00:36
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LYRICS: Come, come a little bit closer So I can see what you have done I said come, come a little bit closer Let me get a look at you Don’t you know you want it too? I said do, do I make you uneasy? I bet you’d like to take a step back I said do, do I make you uneasy? I’ll follow even if you look back Don’t you know you want it too? Don’t you know you want it too? Come a little bit closer… Come a little bit closer…. ~
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LYRICS: Your eyes can touch me Your scent can embrace me Your voice can graze my skin And that’s what I’ll miss most of all I want to believe it ~ and trust what the body can know But the body lies Your eyes evade me Your silence betrays me The lies your body told were so unkind And I couldn’t face it ~ I was a cliche, and behold You couldn’t save my soul I couldn’t face it I couldn’t face what I know The body lies My body lied Your body lied The body lies ~
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Shark Tank 00:35
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LYRICS: It’s 3 am and there’s a devil in my backyard He gotta head full of lightning and a mouth full of thunder It’s 3 am and the devil’s calling out my name He gotta hot fingerprint pressed against the melting window pane Let me in! Go away, devilman Stay away, devilman Please, let me in! Go away, devilman Stay away, devilman It’s 3 am and there’s an angel knocking at my door And he goes by the dandy name “Gabriel” He gotta big shiny grin wrapped in lips full of death He wanna tongue and suck away my very last fucking breath Just let me in! Go away, devilman Stay away, devilman Please, let me in! Go away, devilman Stay away, devilman Let me in! Well I called my buddy Billy Blake, and he told me just what to do To be your own man, he said, you gotta be a monster too Don’t chase them away, god knows it don’t work Invite them all in for a nefarious circle jerk Please! Let us in! Go away, devilman Stay away, devilman Let us in! Don’t you know you want it too? ~
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I am the island you need My shores are here for you to sleep My trees are here to cover you To protect you from rain and sleet I can make all kinds of things For you to take, without the strings I am the island you need But there’s a tremor in me It’s just underneath It’s just underneath. I feel a tremor in me I want a release I want a release A collection of creatures Beautiful, monstrous features All of them here in servitude With gratitude, you can be sure I have placed all of them here For you to love, no need to fear I am the island you need But there’s a tremor in me It’s just underneath It’s just underneath. I feel a tremor in me I want a release I want a release ~
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Looking Back 00:33
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Firefly 03:28
LYRICS: I could start a fire Inside this belly, burning bright All my veins light up like wires Lambent skin cuts through the night While the stars dim behind me A luminescent choir Holds court inside my lungs Your love ~ my burning pyre Your lust ~ my mother tongue Now I’m burning brighter And something in the darkness starts to shine… Burning brighter, burning bright Like a fire in the night Burning brighter, burning bright Finding friends inside the light Something has surrendered Something’s been set free I could start a fire Dancing, flaming, burning wild With phosphorous desires Now I’m burning brighter And something in the darkness starts to shine… Burning brighter, burning bright Like a fire in the night Burning brighter, burning bright Finding friends inside the light ~
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With the fire from the fireworks up above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand You run for cover in the temple of love, you run for another, it’s all the same For the wind will blow my name across this land In the temple of love you hide together Believing pain and fear outside But someone near you rides the weather And the tears he cried will rain on walls as wide as lover’s eyes In the temple of love Shine like thunder I the temple of love Cry like rain In the temple of love Hear my calling In the temple of love Hear my name And the devil in the black dress watches over My guardian angel walks away Life is short and love is always over in the morning Black wind, come carry me far away With the sunlight died and night above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside You run for cover in the temple of love, you run for another, it’s all the same For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside With the fire from the fireworks up above With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain You run for cover in the temple of love I shine like thunder, cry like rain And the temple of love is old and strong But the wind blows longer, cold and long And the temple of love will fall before This black wind calls my name to you no more In the black sky thunder sweeping underground and over water Sounds of crying weeping will not save your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar All your prayers must seem as nothing, ninety-six below the wave When stone is dust and only air remains In the temple of love Shine like thunder I the temple of love Cry like rain In the temple of love Hear my calling And the temple of love Is falling down
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Sigea 00:53
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LYRICS: I live in the belly of a great white shark Black watery current, carry us in the dark I live in his skin and he lives in my mind Together we swim, tender morsel we find (My body undone, wild thing come through) Waiting deep in the murk of eagle eye I cut through white cloud when we enter the sky Calling into the wind ~ gold beak cries true Steady talon unleashed ~ sky deep ~ rip through (My body undone, wild thing come through) Digging deep Genome’s speak All the seeds Inside my core And I can feel what I felt A hundred million years before… ~
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Owl Town 01:48
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I am stretched on your grave and will lie there forever With your hand held in mine I’d be sure we’d not sever My apple tree, my brightness, ‘tis time we were together For I smell of the earth and am stained by the weather When my family thinks that I’m safe in my bed From night until morning I am stretched at your head Calling out to the air with tears both hot and wild Oh I grieve for the girl that I loved as a child ~
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Daughters 00:58
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Prayer 04:15
LYRICS: If I had a god… If I had a god it wouldn’t be hard to go on If I had a prayer… If I had a prayer I’d say~ God, you told us too much You showed us too much And I’ve fallen too far, Fallen too far, Fallen too far, and I fear that it’s been too long But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet I’m a chameleon, drinking to feel again, god... God knows I’ve tried so hard But I’ve fallen too far, Fallen too far, Fallen too far, and I fear that it’s been too long... Fallen too far… ~
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Bloodsuckers 02:36
LYRICS: A thousand little elves Coming up from beneath my bed They gather round the campfire And start singing the songs in my head But with the wrong words! By the light of the fire their faces All begin to crumble And they fall to their knees They laugh at my expense! Bloodsuckers! I could crush you with my thumb Bloodsuckers! I’m so sick of your tricks How I wish the sun would come I can make lyrics rhyme All the time But that don’t soothe my spine Just making a melody Should be enough for me But you like watching me lose my mind… They’re crawling up my knees now And requesting a song about love But I know I’m being teased now So I’m singing a song about getting squeezed by… Bloodsuckers! I could crush you with my thumb Bloodsuckers! I’m so sick of your tricks How I wish the sun would come ~

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A Collection of Creatures is Johnny Hollow's third full-length album.
It was funded entirely by a crowd-sourcing campaign fuelled by the mantra:

No Middle Men, Just Fans!

Johnny Hollow would like to thank all of the incredible patrons who made this album possible, and continue to inspire the band with their enthusiastic support. This is your album!

To create this album, the band went back to their DIY roots; it was recorded almost entirely in-house and self-produced, with a whole lot of blood, sweat, & tears and little help from some very talented friends.

Johnny Hollow is: Janine White, Kitty Thompson, Vincent Marcone, & Steve Hiehn.

Album Art & Design by Vincent Marcone.

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released January 21, 2014

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