It's A Nice Day To Be The Moon
by @carleybaer
Liner Notes
#girlwithpiano #melancholy #lullaby
Hanging in the slack chat, @charliecheney remarked on tonight's lunar eclipse and then followed up with, "It's a nice day to be the moon," and it immediately shook something loose in me that's been bound up in logistics and obligations and honor-bound duty since summer began.
I just recently finished moving, and my studio is still mostly in storage, but our previous tenants left us a wonky barely-tuned piano so I did my best.
Lyrics
Yesterday’s daylight
Skitters like paper in a pirouette
Down an alleyway
Summer’s a convertible
Driving off to Malibu
And the night sneaks in earlier
Every day
The world just gets louder
Can’t turn it down
They grind you down to a powder
Til you finally skip town
And in the rearview mirror
You realize not a moment too soon
It’s a nice day to be the moon
Everyone’s antsy
Legs are all shaking like they fell asleep
On a cross-country flight
Play like they’re angry
And tough but like everyone
They just want to know
It’ll all be all right
Through the cacophony
Somehow we strive
To turn our eyes to the sky
Remember why we’re alive
She passed through the shadow
While me and the rain played a tune
It’s a nice day to be the moon
Comments
"They grind you down to a powder
Til you finally skip town" ain't that the truth, sister!