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Water From Your Eyes refuse to do the dinosaur

December 1, 2025
Ryan Leas

Let’s talk about dinosaurs. Consider the idea that over a span of time we can’t really fathom, gigantic fucking lizards were walking around this place. They were here way before us and way longer than us, and yet it’s the obvious human tendency to still center ourselves in Earth’s narrative. It’s one of those things you take for granted as you get older. When you're young, dinosaurs and space and ancient ruins

are just cool, and you don’t have anything mediating or regulating your awe at the corners of existence we can't really understand. You're a kid and you want to be an astronaut; you grow up and you’re rolling your eyes at $10 tariff matchas while tech billionaires want to put Jurassic Park on Mars. When Water From Your Eyes were making their new album It’s a Beautiful Place, prehistoric creatures were very much on their mind. “I just fucking love dinosaurs," Nate Amos says with a shrug and a smile. “I have since I was little."

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