Dream library / time water / mayflower notebook

**dream library / time water / mayflower notebook** is the twelfth track on can opener's notebook: fish whisperer. It was released February 22, 2022 to Bandcamp and May 21, 2022 to YouTube.

## Description

“during the festival, i ended up buying this notebook from one of the stalls. it was really shiny, caught my attention pretty quickly amongst all the other things. i thought it might be good to have a notebook that i liked, to try and keep up the momentum of writing down my thoughts and stream of consciousness, like vylet advised me to. the hippogriff shopkeep got all excited when i asked about the notebook dfskhjl!! it was cool to see them so into it. they explained that the notebook is a sort of artisan thing, like kinda fancy. but kind of not? i dunno. it was made by .. claw? clawmade.. at the base of mount aris by some really dedicated hippogriffs. the cover of the notebook had shown mount aris, embellished with little jewels. they called it a mayflower notebook.

on the train back to clover village, i started writing stuff in it, as you know. i wrote down a lot about the trip and the things i was thinking at the time. but this is when things became really strange. i’m assuming this is what made you want to contact me in the first place. i started drifting between the sleeping and waking world, like both places started to become one, homogeneous existence. that’s when the rainbow koi from the festival spoke to me. i’m not sure which space it occupied, the dream, or the reality. everything was just colours, and noise, and the fish. part of me wants to believe it was part of the dream, as i couldn’t remember everything it said. but i still remembered some of it. its voice was everywhere, i dont know how to make that make sense. but it surrounded me. i saw those spectral magic fish spark from an aura around my horn, and they went to greet the koi, like they knew each other. i looked around and nopony else seemed to be able to see what i was seeing. the one thing i remember, as clear as day, is the rainbow koi telling me that there was something really important about my magic. it told me that i was a “mystic”. it was pretty vague about the details. i think? maybe its just my bad memory from the dream. or. whatever it was.

eventually it all faded. i felt like i had been submerged in water, the weight of the ocean having pressed all against my body. i woke yona up and asked her if she had seen the rainbow koi, but she said no to that. i came away from this moment feeling really intensely positive again, like back at the festival. did i mention that the rainbow koi was much bigger in the dream than it was in the festival exhibit? or. well i dont know if it was a dream. but you know what i mean. i started writing more and more and more in the mayflower notebook. i felt overcome with this desire to think about and articulate the sort of high fantasy fairytales you get told as a kid. i kinda wanted to write one. maybe its not a fairytale though, i feel like its supposed to be more of a parable. im reading into this too much. i started writing about a little fish, i like to think thats me. the fish wanted to go home, after being really far from home. it sought out a magical power from another very magical fish to get there. the details are sort of lost on me now, but maybe i can show you later.

maybe what makes me a “mystic” is how mystical my ability to forget all these things is. im so tired all the time man.”

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## Lyrics

Comfort in sleep

In a library of dreams

You can go anywhere

Steady as a stream

In a hypnagogic, dreamlike tonic

I can chart the destination

A whisper sweet symphonic

A harmonious visitation

Can Opener:

“The noise conjured by my mind

Finds a vessel in you

Have you welcomed it yourself

Or are you something more?”

Rainbow Koi:

“I’m a herald, of sorts.

The aura that surrounds you is what drew me.

It’s more than music and magic

You are a mystic”

Surrender unto divination

The universe you find your place in

Interweaves and intertwines

Throughout imagination

Sing a song in fascination

There’s grace in every mistake

Between the pen and the sword are the echoes of

The hymn that guides you homeward

Venturing what seems a lifetife

Just to yearn for a home to go back to

Isn’t it wonderful to believe again

In the fairytales that raised you?

In the mayflower notebook Unwavering your thoughts become