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Smog City Blues

from Apes Scrapes and Bandages by Starsapien

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Features studio recording of "Twice" as a bonus track, a hand-written short story by Jay, and a digital download code.

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lyrics

Why do people shout in the morning?
Why the women crying at night?
I tried to have peace like the LA River
But truth is a useless peace of mind

Fireworks they buy in Tecate
Stereos you throw on the curb
You heard a terse pan-hand alley coin toss
The faux-car wash off-ramp beggars earn

Why do city people always seem to shout
At three in the morning?
Three in the fucking morning
Yell for Tré once more
My alloy sits by the door

Rhythm-knocking lovers at midnight
Filler in the kisses of mods
Scene chicks swingin' hips at an Echoplex gig
A stage hand rakes mind-out kids along

Why do city idiots appear to pity
Men on the sidewalk?
Favella tents up the next block
Cries to do something more
But it's you I see who's locking the door

Thought I could see the sunlight
Laugh at the morgue with lungs like
Carbon perfume and concrete
Dimwitted witness don't speak
Speaking in waves you can't read
Jonathan Gold withholding
Pleasant enough what I've seen

Melting away the shoe groove
Hole in the wall become new
Brush over neighbors tax-free
Orange and beige and palm leaf
Monomaniacally we
Dance in the Santa Cruz sink
Drown in the fumes of release

Cloud days that never become rain
Sweep the street to push it around
I love the sound--the mad thrash of a helicopter
I wouldn't sleep any better if it fell to the ground

Why do city people always seem to shout
At three in the morning?
Three in the fucking morning
Yell for Tré once more
My alloy sits by the door

Why does everybody say I ought to fix
The dent in my car door?
That's what I drive a Prius for
Stupid mindless dreck
This place has always got its foot on my neck

credits

from Apes Scrapes and Bandages, released October 13, 2023
Dwayne Jordan: drums
Kevin Beardsley: electric bass
Brandon Shamar: electric keys
Logan Butler: electric guitar
David Siebold: acoustic guitar
Lauren Harrold: shaker
Jakob Bower: trombone
Ariel Mejia: trumpet
Nick VanBuskirk: saxophone
Elijah Freeman: saxophone
Jay Siebold: vocals, percussion, ukulele, acoustic guitar overdubs, bass overdubs

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Starsapien Los Angeles, California

Cosmic country & western from songwriter-producer Jay Siebold and his back-east band.

Apes Scrapes and Bandages out October 13, 2023.

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