Name: The Story of Light
Duration: P00H02M54S
Description: For 50/90 2017 (challenge: write 50 songs in 90 days)

The Story of Light

by miscellaneous owl

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For 50/90 2017 (challenge: write 50 songs in 90 days)

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All I had was a concept
A depth charge, a shooting star
Slid it into the outbox
And like an outfielder, stretched my hand up towards the stars
Oh, friend,
I'm stretching my wings the way a clipped tongue sings in its cage
Hoping the mouth will come apart

All I have is excuses
The way Sisyphus kisses his wife every morning at eight
When the summer is crooning
Then the pen and ideas and the seat of the chair can just wait
See Lumière
Toiling and burning, casting light where the castle's too dim
Waiting to be transformed by some agency greater than him

Shake the clock like a baby
Snoozing and dreaming and killing what's left of your time
I think contentment's a failing
There are many excuses like this one, but this one is mine
So many excuses like this one, but this one is mine

Lumière's brothers, they made it
Shining light through the celluloid, moving their dolls in the dark
Oh, friend
I'm just a series of stills rolled up on some strip in a tin
Waiting for greatness to snap on, shine glorious beams through my skin
Waiting to be transformed so the story of light can begin

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released July 22, 2017

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