HMLTD - Lay Me Down

Buy & Listen to our album The Worm: Follow HMLTD: @we_are_hmltd Credits: Directors - Emmanuelle Mohnblatt, Marie Deboissy & Sébastien Kirszenblat Production Company - Eddy Producer - Stella Ramsden Line Producer - Isa Taoui Production Assistant - Maria Markova Storyboard - Emmanuelle Mohnblatt & Sébastien Kirszenblat Colorboard - Marie Deboissy Editor - Christian Georges Character Design - Emmanuelle Mohnblatt Background Design - Marie Deboissy & Sébastien Kirszenblat Animation Studio - Eddy Studio Animators - Etienne Faivre, Nathan Harbonn Viaud & Antoine Vinceneux Animation Coloring - Carole Mohnblatt & Emmanuelle Mohnblatt Animation Interns - Ronan Facchini & Arthus Mariet Compositing - Sébastien Kirszenblat Head of Studio - Jean-Rémi Perrin Technical Supervisor - Romain Cabanier Graphic Design - Emeline Courcier Accountants - Kai-Hsin Lee & Léna Menzago Head of Finance - Maxime Baillet Thanks: With the support of the CNC, Louise Giron de Faucher, Vincent Hochet, Clara Franciosi, Céline Vanlint, Nathan Roberts Lyrics: The sun was a flaming death star On the day you were conceived The sky shattered like a sheet of glass And the waves were like mountains And the mountains swallowed themselves Fish crawled out from the boiling oceans Birds fell from the sky - bloated with their song Trees felled themselves And all the moon bugs in the long grass were buzzing And all of this you shall inherit As far as you can see All of this is yours ~ I am hanging by the wire I can’t get much higher I think we misunderstood God’s intentions are good I am wading through the mire And the world’s on fire This time it ended for good Like they said it would Lay me down I’ve got no end Lay me down My only friend This leads nowhere Still I pretend - Lay me down Just like God meant I had a dream about us where We were two halves of a worm Then I woke and you were there Telling me nothing was wrong Well ain’t that just like us To destroy the things we love Then you come back to me You walk in and the clouds burst! Lay me down I’ve got no end Lay me down My only friend This leads nowhere Still I pretend - Lay me down Just like God meant You’re in the sun On my brain In my head I lost my way Oh no, oh no - Don’t fall away Don’t fall away Don’t fall away ~