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Telling the Story of the Evening Sun

from SPELLS by The Light Switches

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As the evening sun goes down, goes down/ As the evening sun goes down
Tomorrow turns to yesterday/ The way today will do tomorrow
As the evening sun goes down

Awake yourself try to remember/ When the tiny flicker of an ember
Lifted shadows from the water/ To entertain the darling daughter
Music trembled eerie antics/ Transformed all enchanted dancing
Translucent, universal beings/ Living, breathing, hearing, seeing
Forests filling up with creatures/ Reaching out and seeking teacher
Birds with wings who sing for pleasure/ Careless kings who horde their treasures
Howling beasts who haunt the self/ Who's sanctity resides in wealth
Armies ordained in disguise/ Harming harmless fireflies
Who's light is not in search of fame/ Who's fortune is not tied to pain
Whose families are not estranged/ As strangers on the subway trains
these masses fade all fat and lazy/ This entertainer's craft is crazy
Go on sun get famous/ Entertain us...

As the evening sun goes down, goes down/ As the evening sun goes down
Tomorrow turns to yesterday/ The way today will do tomorrow
As the evening sun goes down

Before the halls were overcrowded/ The talent of the sun was doubted
The critics called the act pretentious/ Predictable and uninventive
But the sun still showed up anyway/ Every day, day after day
No matter what the critics had to say

Then one evening on the Oceanside/ The clouds dispersed across the sky
Enlightened on the west horizon/ Opposite the new moon rising
A sinking circle slowly growing/ Concentric, colored halos glowing
A wayward music box unwinding/ A ghostly garden's vines entwining
Doors to captive eyes unhinged/ Tattooed on the beauties skin
Unfazed by the trigger's hammer/ Unchanged by the ghetto's glamour
Regardless of one's recognition/ The sun is one with intuition
Confiding calmly to the sea/ The secrets of eternities
The miracle of life on earth/ Is neither dreamed, confessed, nor cursed
Everyone on earth's related/ Our latest, greatest grandma dated
Her songs are strung on violins/ That burned in Prague and east Berlin
her crescent moon's a sailor's sword/ a junkie pawns in Baltimore
As dinosaurs will dig the graves/ For fortune's fools and pharaoh's slaves
As wild wolves have lost their homes/ To disgraced drones of telephones
The race that once sought out salvation/ Now seeks to race the world's creation
But the wilderness will take the finish/ The way that Gandhi beat the British
We all must one day come to face/ The end of time and sense of place
To go and find another place/ Like every star in outer space
Is the light that shines/ Is the light that shines
Is the light that shines/ Is the light that shines
Is the light that shines/ Inside the light that shines

As the evening sun goes down, goes down/ As the evening sun goes down
Tomorrow turns to yesterday/ The way today will do tomorrow
As the evening sun goes down

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from SPELLS, released March 18, 2011
Guitars/Singing: Michael Musika. Percussion: Jesse Olsen. Balophone/Piano: Eric Kuhn. Singing/ Bass: Matt Adams. Singing: Sleepy Todd. Singing: Indianna Hale. Violin: Dina Maccabee. Singing: Vanessa Verlee. Singing: Jeremy Rourke.

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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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