Sometimes, I'm inspired from historical persons and events. Well, maybe not actual history, just our contemporary reflection of it.
Note: We have lots of cicadas in southeast Michigan. Occasionally, their rhythms fall into dotted eighths... Deep.
Our name was derived from a W. B. Yeats poem titled Wild Swans at Coole. The sample is from a reading of that poem. It has nothing to do with the lyrical content of this song. I smashed them together anyway. Sue me.
Randy Bishop
lyrics
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
We are citizens
From the minds of distant men.
Napping under cicada wings
Tapping to their dissonance.
We are citizens
From the minds of distant men.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore.
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