She dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field

A song, or rather an instrumental movement to the song antennas to heaven by Godspeed You Black Emperor!. On lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven!, it runs from 4:03 to 13:46 on the 4th track of the album. Just try to listen to this song without being deeply, soulfully moved. I dare you.

There's also a dance that accompanies the song. Let me teach you.


 4:03| The song starts.  Wave your head back and forth like Stevie Wonder.
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 5:30| Hear the tapping of the drumsticks, and look around furtively for 3 seconds.
 5:33| All of your muscles clench and spasm like you're having an orgasm on the electric chair.
     | Roll around on the floor for a while in musical ecstasy.
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 6:25| Pick yourself up, catch your breath, and wipe yourself off with a moist towel.
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 7:30| Time for more furtive looking.  They are coming for you.
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 7:50| Smile.  Start with a little one,
     | then smile more
     | and more
     | until your face hurts from grinning like a fool.
 9:30| Relax.  Chuckle if you have to.
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10:10| Shiver nervously like a homeless person in the winter, asking for change
11:05| Steel yourself like a mariner braving a gale
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11:22| Open your eyes.  Become bigger.  It hasn't killed you, and it's making you stronger.
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11:55| Release all your tension.  All of it.  It's like shitting; just get it out,
     | flush it down,
     | and forget about it.
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13:15| Smile again.  Sincerely this time.  You are OK.
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Does anyone else hear this song as the story of a life? From ignorant childhood to rambunctious, hedonistic adolescence, to paranoid, delusional adulthood, through hard times to recovery and regrowth, self-knowledge, wisdom, and ultimately to a happy, unfeared death? That's what I hear. What do you hear?

izubachi says I hear the apocalypse. And then I hear the beginning of a new world.

hunt05 says I hear the tale of an addict in it. Like at first, they're happy using drugs and all, and then they get scared, and then they finally become clean and sober

He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed	drops of jupiter along highway 69	lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven!	They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
It is well oiled, you will click into it like a happy cog	Godspeed You! Black Emperor	I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me	We had to go away ... and dream it all up again
Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.	I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky	Open your eyes. Become bigger. It hasn't killed you, and it's making you stronger	That Time and Absence proves Rather helps than hurts to loves
She grew a little older, while he was telling her	That witch does not kill me, makes me stronger	Save your tender loving care for the nuclear fireball in June.	in a lawn chair at the bottom of an emptied swimming pool
I come home, she lifted up her wings. I guess that this must be the place.	like a flower with a fool's face I open myself	Eyes that had a way of making time stop	Bohemian Rhapsody
The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight.	Trust Not These Truths	She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.