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Cicada Buzz

from With a Y by Telyscopes

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lyrics

Rock to the crescent moon
but don't play along if you're not in tune
Keep blowing all that steam,
just cicada buzz, rustling leaves

If your strings are rusted and broke
better change them fast before the rest are woken
fall catches up with shortening days,
and the years roll by in a flip-book

Listen for me
rumble of an airplane overhead
Don’t tug on me
I'm not a dove on a leash
can’t teach you how to sing
stay in time or key

Drink to the full moon,
drink into tomorrow, start again at noon
Drive on the freeway trashed,
busted headlight, windshield scratched

If your brains are swollen and wet
better dry them out before you lose your shit
you start shaking like the dancing leaves:
cicada convulsing as it dies in the street

Listen for me
Whistling Amtrak in the fog
Don’t tug on me
I’m not your mother‘s sleeve
don’t bring me stains to bleach,
a hungry mouth to feed.

I’m just a boxcar, a jug o’ wine
the spark in the night
cicada buzz before light.

(Devil bit my hand
Teeth punctured skin
Rose drips of a lipstick-kissed wrist
Ran down my shaking fingers
Getting all over my desk and white t-shirt.)

I’m just a boxcar, jug o’ wine
the spark in the night
cicada buzz before light.

I’m just the rustling leaves
another grain on a beach
raindrop in a sea.

credits

from With a Y, released October 31, 2020
Karl Hovmark - Drums
Jack Hubbell - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Percussions
- feat Ikea Shelf and Coffee Mug

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Telyscopes Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"Since 2012, Telyscopes has molted through one reinvention after another--shedding layers of lo-fi psychedelia, chamber pop, jazz, and electronica like cocoons as the project grows more legs, prettier wings, or sharper mandibles. The lifeblood remains the same: offbeat lyrics and striking melodies. Often ingenious--never typical."
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