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Frogs Will Never Fall from the Sky

from Jacquerie by Edward Morneau

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This song’s original lyrics were a literal rant against organized religion and my own inability to reconcile its fairy tale attributes and moralizing with the very real repressions and ethical consternations that have brought so much ruination throughout cultures that have employed religion in literal, fundamentalist, and non-critical ways. I found my rant thin and as mean-spirited as the darkest ruminations I was railing against. I therefore decided to look back on the effect of religion from the End of Days— the tantalizing point fundamentalists seem to embrace for the sake of the-god-virtue of fear they pursue. The larger effect for me was to puzzle out the colliding ideas of the ‘end of days’ through the chaos of unusual images and metaphors that flew into my head while I was watching a random episode of Seinfeld and its sponsors. It was like channeling the ridiculous to conjure the sublime, which, of course, is ridiculous. So it’s a bit looney, but so is the prophecy of frogs falling from the sky.

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Frogs Will Never Fall from the Sky

The ticket to the sun has been collected 

The widow to the bones sweeps up the dust
The salad years have passed the last inspection
As iron looks to slip away from rust.

But it makes no sense to me that 

All the wind wakes in the morning
And all the tracks of dark blue crease the sky
And the incremental storm of clocks
Ringing while the evening flocks 

To the heels of light in blind serenity.

On a cold, cold day when the oxygen is thin
And gravity has its way with you
And the odds are just even 

Frogs will never fall from the sky.

One step ahead delays cuts to the diamond
Events like legends fall between the cracks 

A swarm of flies wrest traffic from December
With the panic gridlock chorus at their back.

It makes no sense to me that fire burns away the memory
Of passions chilled by parallel end signs
As fame and nuance join the league
Snow leopards drop from sheer fatigue
The sane is not the same for you and me.

On a cold, cold day when the oxygen is thin
And gravity has its way with you

And the odds are just even

Frogs will never fall from the sky.

In the end Skin Ribbon Men will tour the shadows
With Storm and Drain—sweet cousins of the Moon
That pulls the tide of bodies in collision
And stock the spine of eternity’s balloon.

It made no sense to me
When I woke up from this senseless dream
That words could mean so little for so few
And riddles favor those who’d rather bleed in ambiguity

And draw and quarter mouse meal for the clue.

On a cold, cold day when the oxygen is thin
And gravity has its way with you

And the odds are just even 

Frogs will never fall from the sky.

On a cold, cold day when the oxygen is thin
And gravity has its way with you 

And the odds are just even

Rain might fall,
Snow might fall
But frogs will never fall from the sky.

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from Jacquerie, track released January 1, 2010

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Edward Morneau Salem, Massachusetts

Edward Morneau has been a musician and songwriter most of his life. His focus on multiple genres and interest on sound collage experimentation makes his music hard to classify. His muses range from Beatles, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, XTC, Kinks, Iris DeMent to Mahler, Shostakovich, Penderecki & Zappa. His background as an English & Film teacher gives humor and striking imagery to his songs. ... more

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