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Cicada Songs

by Uh Oh

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1.
The weather report's been wrong since we felt right A tally of days gone by without a fight So I ran through the rain like an 80s movie montage Dripping poison and self pity from my pores, just longing for a song With a cinematic breadth and scope and wonder To sync it to my steps off the edge If you only find gold at the end of the rainbow Whatcha gonna find at the end of the world? Try to hide kaleidoscopic eyes Yeah whatcha gonna do when the colors swirl? If you only find gold at the end of the rainbow Whatcha gonna find at the end of it all? Try to ride the rise and fall The fall, the fall, the fall Tell me, how do you think we should play this Dry and dying oasis? I was back in the halls of my high school for the first time I was tripping, I was shaking like a leaf, just trying to discern Have I been absent from this all for so long? Have I been packing it up all wrong? If you only find gold at the end of the rainbow Whatcha gonna find at the end of the world? Try to hide kaleidoscopic eyes Yeah whatcha gonna do when the colors swirl? If you only find gold at the end of the rainbow Whatcha gonna find at the end of it all? Try to ride the rise and fall The fall, the fall, the fall
2.
I’ll be a line in your book Mentioned with your hometown A bridge, not to burn down But to lift you on your own You’ll be a modern timeless classic I’ll try deciphering your pages But I will share you with the ages May your story be yours alone I will be honest I don’t know if I had a story to tell before you A travelogue to pore through Dusty, tedious, and forlorn You’ll be the title of my book Featured in every chapter Here now, forever after Dog-eared pages, but never torn You’ll be the ones that I’ll keep trying To capture with poetic pretense Perfect prose and consonance That could carve into stone
3.
Firefly 03:07
Oh, what could it be Your last memory of me? If I just fell asleep Would you forget too easily? Oh, to be the lucky firefly To make it through Seasons repeating endlessly Without a clue It's all the chase No time or place To be We watch the moon grow For the first time in, I don't know If we could hide fear Then what the hell would ever show? It's all the chase No time or place To be To be
4.
Dragging dust, left a wake Only packing what I need to take Bygone, let it go Maybe it's love when the river runs low Good night, alright Tomorrow isn't over for me Good night, alright I haven't forgot who you thought I would be Summer blood, open door My legs are not made of stone anymore Dry spell preordained But I'm off until I get drenched in the rain again Good night, alright Tomorrow isn't over for me Good night, alright I haven't forgot who you thought I would be Down and out and turning blue You know what you gotta do Tumble through that wide open door And taste the sweet concrete like you meant to Good night, alright Tomorrow isn't over for me Good night, alright I haven't forgot who you thought I would be
5.
Dust Devils 04:07
I can stand in the middle of the road And the cars will pass me swerving My vision doubles and triples Until there's a hundred roads in front of me There's nothing left here for me except everything Everywhere I turn is a new scene Every second I wait is a wasted dream Wishing into discontent Or the other way around I will lose myself in steps or leaps To anywhere else If I'm a dog, I'm leashed to a fig tree And each one looks so good And I'm free, but I'm too damn dumb And too damn loyal to leave Look around, look around Look around me Dust devils and tumbleweeds There's nothing worse that could happen to anybody Than driving back out east I watch the figs drop Bruce says that we were born to run But how we ever make it back where we're coming from? Bruce says that we were born to run But now my legs are paralyzed and I can't pick em up I wanna see the plains through Cather's eyes Then maybe I would stay and it would be alright It would be alright It'll be alright Dust devils and tumbleweeds There's nothing worse that could happen to anybody Than driving back out east
6.
In a twist of fate- are you sitting down? We got away from this town And stayed alone We found a way to pretend We’d never need each other again And sank like stones (Look up, look out) How far down is the bottom of the ocean? Can’t slow down cause perpetual motion Keeps me swimming around, you know I am Sinking all the way down Boxed out by sharpening elbows Desperate for a story to tell those Black site rooms Strung along and strung out, we’re too far gone Too little light at the dawn to Stay in bloom (Look up, look out) How far down is the bottom of the ocean? Can’t slow down cause perpetual motion Keeps me swimming around, you know I am Sinking all the way down Hold on til the breakaway Long time comin til the end of the day Midnight is here to stay Nothing else left in my DNA Hold on til the breakaway Long time comin til the end o the day Midnight is here to stay I guess Y2K did a job on me
7.
Don't believe a word, I'm taking everything back now I can carry on incessantly, depressingly, but anyhow All I ever wanted was to be one of my own Heard and maybe understood, some driftwood turned to a cornerstone Further down the road Another month or so It's the same old song Nothing to reveal A stutter step, a broken wheel It goes all day long, all day long anymore Lay out in the yard like I'm a pile of orange leaves At the mercy of the slightest gust, I'm only just in full relief Don't you fear the words, just let them hang out in the air Sometimes better, sometimes worse it seems, lucid dreams in disrepair Further down the road Another month or so It's the same old song Nothing to reveal A stutter step, a broken wheel It goes all day long, all day long anymore Don't believe a word Don't believe a word Oooh la la la Oooh la la la Oooh la la la la Oooooooooooooooh
8.
Jittery from the perpetual hum of a busted out radio I wonder if we have already met everybody we'll ever know Desolate impossibility, I tried to catch your name I swear it's true, still on the tip of my tongue, and I hope that you feel the same If you're here, make a sound Hit the switch, leave a clue Will you wait up ahead of me? I'm losing you I'm lost and losing you Lost sight, losing all my nerve, lost time with no time to kill I never quite get the dial right, and I probably never will If you're here, make a sound Hit the switch, leave a clue Will you wait up ahead of me? I'm losing you I'm lost and losing you
9.
C.S.T.S. 03:39
Wasn’t all that long ago we knew The tall tales of time and place were through An unflinching ageless ‘here’ But these days no rabbits run when I come near I strain to hear that sound We become as seasons go That’s how it has to be But those cicada songs still keep me company Ghost city, it’s a bit of a bummer Winter, autumn, spring and summer I got used to seeing you around Whatever we got’s begged and borrowed It's a long walk til tomorrow I won’t let you down I had that dream again We become as seasons go That’s how it has to be But those cicada songs still keep me company Is fate gonna be up to this? Or should we pack it up And gather back at home? In the dark, the trees are shaking In the light, our voices breaking We become as seasons go That’s how it has to be But those cicada songs still keep me company

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released November 22, 2023

Joe Champion - Guitar and Vocals
Mari Crisler - Guitar and Vocals
Erik Trent - Bass

Recorded/Produced by Uh Oh
Tracks 1-8 mixed by Jeremy Wurst/B-24 Studios
Tracks 1-8 mastered by Don Gunn
Track 9 mixed and mastered by Uh Oh

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Joe Champion - Guitar, Vocals

Mari Crisler - Guitar, Vocals

Erik Trent - Bass

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