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Translating the Bird's Song

from SPELLS by The Light Switches

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One day this world ends
You’ll need a girlfriend
and then some children
For with what little time you have to spend
before this ship is wrecked
to light candles on the deck
for the starlight to reflect

Echoes of loon cries
Remind the sunrise
Go climb the sky one final time
Like a virtuoso's hand
On a trembling baby grand
That the mocking birds command

to celebrate the summer's eve
we wish we never had to leave at all
Until we heard fall
disguised as a passer by
whispering a lullaby of snow
and everyone knows
the winter wind’s sad solemn hum
is heartbroken as a railroad bum
holding dried chrysanthemums
like mice collecting cookie crumbs
to taste the sweet like days of old
when someone sang straight through the cold
close your eyes my friend pretend
this sweetness is the bitter end
where winter winds shall cease to blow
and sunshine shows the melting snow
the birds that are not here to sing
return again each passing spring
and this is what they’ll sing:

Since all you’re children
have seen the splendor
is never ending
they will remember

credits

from SPELLS, released March 18, 2011
Guitar/ Vox/ birds/ chimes: Michael Musika, Drums/Percussion: Jesse Olsen, Piano: Eric Kuhn, Bass: Matt Adams, Singing: Indianna Hale, Percussion: Dave Mihaly

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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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