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While the City Sleeps

by The Comet

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1.
Detective 03:08
While the city sleeps The heartless creeps Living in the shadows And the shadows of their souls They whisper fear through the breathless nights (and the shadows of their souls, souls)
2.
I know that secretly I like I know that secretly I like To know just where you are And where you've been And where you started The drip of the drug is tickling tongues Listen to sizzle of the hovering sun The secret beginning Every detective's designed by the criminal kind Completely intertwined with the villain inside I know, I know, I know where to begin with you Cause I got a crooked mind too
3.
And oh these up hill lakes Are impossible to investigate And oh these shifty mountains Can they make? can they vanish? And oh, the endless trail Makes me happy Makes me appreciate solid ground And it's a trip When you don't look down Finally we've found an opening Oh wait it's just a sound Just a lead to another detective.
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5.
Chesterfield 02:34
Three died today and you're just waking up Wearing old clothes and you're back at square one If we died today would you feel like you do Or would you feel like you'd been cheated? Fly from your bed and out through the window Over the roof tops, tearing up shingles You're the new favourite haunt of the town but you're leaving You died and now you feel it, you died and now you feel it Got a chesterfield of friends in favourite field. Now its really relaxed, it's time to put you're feet up You died now put your feet up
6.
Ravine Scene 03:09
Headlights don't stop for me Headlights going through my ghost Love, I'm losing all, losing all the signals Carving out a trail for Upright Seeking out a dirt floor all night Here's the scene, in The Ravine I'll catch you hiding in the walls of the hotels halls You're leaving me leaving leads, leads me nowhere at all you can't shake, shake me, you can't shake me off
7.
Undercover 04:06
I'm under, under cover A chameleon of the crime I blend in to the bricks I float through the window Hover in my trench coat, never see my face though Like a shadow of a phantom in a past life My daily life makes me light, makes me light My daily life makes me lie, makes me lie My lady waits for me waits in the light
8.
The comet is coming.

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While the City Sleeps is a concept album about a tired detective in a bleak, gritty, rain-soaked future.

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released May 10, 2014

Christopher Kelly - Vocals, Piano, Synthesizers, Drum Machines, Percussion, Guitar, Electronics, Effects
Christopher Leitch - Vocals, Synthesizers, Drum Machines, Percussion, Guitar, Organ, Glockenspiel

Benny Schuetze - Acoustic Drum Kit
Colin Cowan - Electric Bass on Secret Beginning, Uphill Lakes, and Ravine Scene

All songs written and produced by The Comet / Mixed by Digory Smallz and The Comet / Mastered by Andy Jackson at Tube Mastering / Recorded at the China Cloud, Big in Japan Recordings, Phantom Friend Studio.

Photos by Marcus Jolly

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The Comet Vancouver, British Columbia

The Comet is the electronic, future-noir project of Vancouver’s Christopher Kelly and Christopher Leitch. Their music is made in the heart of Chinatown, an area of Vancouver rich with ominous, inky alleyways, relentlessly abuzz. A backdrop that, no doubt, heavily influenced the aura of their first release, While the City Sleeps. ... more

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