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When the Lights Go Black

by Meadow Singers

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Recorded to a 4-track tape by Joe Kaplow at The Ratz Carlton in the Summer of 2018

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My hands they are tingling
Stinging from the nettle in the yard
And the comfrey she is singing
Singing to the moon like a dog

The spiders they are nesting in the cosmos
In the corners of my room
And my thoughts they are bending
On a tiny little dot in a lagoon

When the lights go black
When the lights go black
It won’t be long
When the cranes come back
When the cranes come back
Oh I’ll be gone

The fish all start to walk now
To leave their fins and gills and tails behind
The kids are getting anxious
They’re running and they’re breaking out of line

The rounded edge the fraying seam
An arch of light across the silver screen
You break a cloud your mind goes blank
You come around again you’re on the beam

When the lights go black
When the lights go black
It won’t be long
When the cranes come back
When the cranes come back
Oh I’ll be gone

Time is love and money drugs
And one is where the other died
And hand in hand is where you find
The needle and the golden twine
And when you find, when you find that golden twine

You’re gonna weave just like a wanderer and sing the loom to sleep
You dream just like a voyager and you sew,
Yeah you’ll sew just what you reap

When the lights go black
When the lights go black
It won’t be long
When the cranes come back
When the cranes come back
Oh I’ll be gone

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released November 26, 2018

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