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Silly conversations
Where do their echos go?
The city's dying twilight
Like silk on raven skies a wintered glow
Faces fight to find their features
Providence has cursed their blood
Just stay clear of well-lit places
You'll catch a fever lying naked in the sun.

There's murmurs in the ground
And trumpets in the skies
Weaving melodies of doom
That dislocate my eyes
And the vines ascend through cracks
Of the street's we'd called our own
They parody our veins
And reclaim our tired bones.

Shimmy and shake
I can never catch a break
The hours get lonely
They slither by like rattlesnakes

Tremors in the treetops
Awake the morning star
Seven thousand laughing angels
Cast their silhouettes across the dawn
The masters of the skyline
Humbled down onto all fours
If the silence gets too painful
Just imagine there was never sound at all.

As the weeks turned into miles
I gazed upon a beach
And all the ones I'd loved
Had been buried by the sea
The titans of the Earth
Could not roll back the tide
So I dug into the dirt
And held to what was mine

Shimmy and shake
I can never catch a break
The hours get lonely
They slither by like rattlesnakes.

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from We were Beautiful in August, released October 27, 2023

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Elmer and the Ceramic Trees Janesville, Wisconsin

Conceived in the summer of 2012 by Janesville, Wisconsin singer-songwriter Robbie Haas, Elmer and the Ceramic Trees blend the lush melodies of bands like The Beatles and Big Star with the doom-and-gloom pop of The Cure and Echo and The Bunny Men, the driving rhythms of New Order, and the big choruses of Bowie and Arcade Fire to form a style of indie pop that is at once harrowing and gorgeous. ... more

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