We Settle Into The Night

from Into The Wild World by Cedarsmoke

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We climb out of our shells at night
Out through the viaducts, into the wild world
Simple cogs in a complex machine
Placated by a fever dream, mindless little working bees
Halfway there to the mid-life affairs
Where greying men dye their hair
Buy their mistresses new underwear
While their wives inject Botox to hide their crow’s feet
Diet until they hallucinate in their seldom seen lingerie
Can they almost see God speaking through the flame trees?
But they don’t hold on tight, they settle into the night

Grassy knolls once verdant green
Like billowing blue seas filled up with plasticine
Standing in a cornfield in your floral dress
Holly, I do confess, you’re the one that I like best
Marilyn Monroe crossed paths with JFK
While Jackie O slept alone in the White House with the kids at home
Hitler and Eva Braun never left each other’s sides
Until the double suicide, he pulled the trigger; she ate cyanide
When MLK entertained guests for the night
J Edgar Hoover listened in with the FBI
And when he returned to his wife they settled into the night

Now the Pope is getting divorced
And he’s starting to think that he’s backed the wrong horse
As I’m hoping an incantation of Hail Mary’s
Can make me some paragon of monogamy

It’s a quarter-life crisis on the Western front
I even gave up on giving up, getting sober and getting drunk
Found a job, enrolled in the working class
Watched my soul depreciated faster than a brand-new car
Now it’s New Year’s Eve on the Harbour Bridge
Lit up by fireworks, light pollution and fireworks
Holding onto Holly’s hand too tight
It’s like exploding IEDs that trigger PTSD
I don’t know what to do, I guess I get confused
But we don’t hold on tight, we settle into the night
We don’t know anything, we settle into the night

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from Into The Wild World, released October 22, 2021

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Cedarsmoke Brisbane, Australia

Cedarsmoke is the indie-folk-rock project of Brisbane-based singer-songwriter, Jon Cloumassis. With a lyric-centred approach to songwriting, Cedarsmoke create literary and narrative-driven songs.

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