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Lyra's Nova, Visible to the Naked Eye

from An Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing by Queen Cabbage

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You look to stars for hope and guidance
But they don’t know you are there
They’ve no brains or sensory organs
They’ve no stake in you while you’re here

You see, they’ve gone from burning bright
To dust that paints the night
You see the remnants of their lights
But most are no longer alive

You are speaking American English
To burning hydrogen gas
Screaming questions in frantic anguish
But the sound stops cold in the vacuum

Who cares how hot they’re burning?
Who cares why they’re up so high?
Who cares about your bended knee,
Your clenched hands, and knuckles so white?

One bleak December evening
You set out on your own
The clouds, ink black and heaving,
Made vapor of your bones

Where were those tiny beacons,
Those distant pinpricks of hope?
Where are Lyra and Orion?
Which clouds did they ride to their homes?

You swore they’d guide you back to me
A changed and better man
But here, through frozen woods, I see
A fool with frozen hands
A trite fool with white, frozen hands

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from An Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing, released September 28, 2018

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Originating in late 2017 at SUNY Purchase, Queen Cabbage is a folky art rock band dedicated to synthesizing silliness, seriousness, life, death, the beautiful, and the grotesque into earnest, powerful, emotionally immediate music for eager feet to dance and stumble to, for thoughtful hearts to beat and break to, and—most importantly—for authority figures to disapprove of. Queens ~~ Welcome! ... more

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