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Playing the Violin with Broken Strings

from SPELLS by The Light Switches

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I have a violin with broken strings/ that doesn’t sing a goddamn thing
she’s so beautiful/ and so meaningless/ I bow
Sweet slow sorrowful symphonies/ blue skies/ ominous tympanis
Sundays/ sung by the chimney sweeps/ Haunting frolicking city streets
sunshine exiting secretly/ ghost girls dreaming on balconies
hearing harmonies up on the roof

Little one, believe me please while we’re still young
don’t be afraid of the darkness/ silently shrouding your room
dear, daylight will come again soon

I can’t count on you my Gemini/ the stars up in the sky
are uncountable/ they’re so numerous/ I bow
Song birds imitate yesterdays/ love songs played on the radio
time passed since it was yesterdays loves songs/ you’ve got a good memory tell me
Do you remember when song birds/ could have been possibly
singing a song that spoke clearly to you

Little one, believe me please while we’re still young
don’t be afraid of the darkness/ silently shrouding your room
dear, daylight will come again soon

I have a violin with broken strings/ that doesn’t sing a goddamn thing
she’s so beautiful/ and so meaningless/ I bow

credits

from SPELLS, released March 18, 2011
Guitar/Singing: Michael Musika. Drums: Jesse Olsen. Toy Piano: Eric Kuhn. Singing/Bass: Matt Adams. Ukulele/ singing: Sleepy Todd. Singing: Indianna Hale.

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1. Girl group for the living and the dead. 2. Characterized by layered imagery, and internal rhyme. 3. Your soundtrack to evade capture by the police.

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