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My Breaking News

from Let's Get Light by Let's Get Light

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This is my favorite song on the album, one of my favorites I've ever written, and where I will take my music if I ever take it anywhere again. (Which will be straight to other musicians, because making music alone is lonely and hard and I'm just not that great at playing instruments.)

We're back at the carnival and it's not going well. I wrote this song when Bird Flu was something people remembered. But with plague and monsters dominating the news in 2020, the song sounds like it could have been written yesterday.

But that’s not the only thing making the song seem timely. I’m writing this on June 22, 2021, and Juneteenth just became a national holiday. The last two words of the song—and the album—are a reference to Juneteenth. An entirely personal one. When I was a lad a local TV station would start playing commercials for my city's Juneteenth celebration beginning at the end of May, and they served as the official death knell for the school year and the herald of the beginning of summer. Add a little league field at night lit by floodlights, me in the dark at the edge of it, and the rustle and shadow of a snake slithering past into the trees.

So, thirteen or fourteen years after it was recorded, this song is both breaking news and the most personal song on the album. Fitting.

Look out for the two-stage REM reference rocket.

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My Breaking News

Parade, parade
Lights go up on a sleeping town
Shouting
This way! This way!
Curiosity pulls
The sleepers down to

Lions on stages
Bears pacing back and forth in their cages
Tiger let loose in the henhouse tonight
Birds kissing birds
Birds swallowing phages
Crawling with phages

I want to cure it
I want to save it
In vinegar brine
Wrapped in newspaper pages

The lights in the trees on Christmas Eve
The snake in the grass on June nineteenth

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from Let's Get Light, released June 22, 2021
Music and lyrics: Let's Get Light
Instruments and vocals: Let’s Get Light

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LGL made a pretty good album back in the aughts and then shelved it.

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