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close encounter on highway 69

by jannell

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Rough draft version of a new song--a quirky one based on a friend's observation that driving through drifts of summer lightning bugs in north AL is akin to entering hyperspace.

lyrics

Lyrics:
One evening late we were driving
The curves and the twists of the road
Tracing the swells of the place I was made
The place where I grew in the foothills and glades
Then suddenly draped all around us
A luminous flashing cascade
Studding the night with pinpoints of light
Great curtains of color dropped from great height

Such a mysterious night
Such a mysterious night
Hear the chorus of light

I turned to you in amazement
It felt like our car took flight
My mouth hung agape and I froze as I watched
your form start to waver in place, oh
Crowned with a coruscant halo
Your skin swathed in radiant rays
Your eyes flickered silvery-white tongues of light
Like serpents of Artemis seething with might

I never swerved or slowed, I know
but time seemed to stall
All lights and stars merged together as one
All bodies one infinite sun
And you gazed at the deep burning heart of the night
I could feel my heartbeat burning deep in my throat
I gasped and I choked
and then the spell broke

Was it just the fatigue of the road?
Lightning bug beacons of home?
Highway hypnosis, some quick dizzy trance
A road-weary reverie realm of romance?
Or did we encounter the cosmos?
Some entity temporally stranded?
Just run aground in a metalclad handbasket
A whiff of eternity’s smoking head gasket?

Did we trip on Diana’s great trailing robe
As she stalked some white-tail deer
Or rip through a rift in space-time
In some unearthly shear?
Did we ruffle the wing of an angel?
There’s only one thing that is clear–
this world is rife with awe of the type
that's brimming with arthropods emitting light

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released June 30, 2022
Jannell Canerday- vocals, MIDI programming

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