about
Strange New World: You are an alien visiting the Earth. Write about what you found.
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lyrics
(You ready? Here we go)
I didn’t know the sky
Could sing this shade of blue
I never thought that
I would get to feel something so new
There’s all these songs around
I think they call them birds
There’s something that I want to say
But there are no words
But beyond the constellations and the
Myths from which they’re named
Beyond the seas, there’s you
There’s you, there’s something left untamed
And beyond "do I deserve this"
And beyond what I once knew
Beyond what I have learned and lost
There’s you, there’s you, there’s you
You make me think I’m finally an explorer
My heart screams, oh, the wonder, ah, the horror
You make me shake with– what did you call it?– thunder
My heart screams, oh, the horror, ah, the wonder
(Mm, I'll tell you something)
I didn’t think the seas
Were something that could change
I only ever dreamed of
Smells so fragrant and so strange
There’s something in the night
I think it’s called the moon
There’s something that I want to sing
But I don’t know the tune (tune)
But beyond the plants and minerals
The temperature and size
Beyond all reason, there is you
There’s you, and I can’t analyze
And beyond "do I deserve this?"
And beyond "I never do"
Beyond what I have learned and lost
There’s you, there’s you, there’s you
You make me think I’m finally an explorer
My heart screams, oh, the wonder, ah, the horror
You make me shake with– what did you call it?– thunder
My heart screams, oh, the horror, ah, the wonder
I always said I thought
Rules were there for a reason
But in your world they’re not
So many changes, many seasons
Thought I said
That everything could be weighed out nicely
Now instead
I love you oh so un-precisely
(You know?)
You make me think I’m finally an explorer
My heart screams, oh, the wonder, ah, the horror
You make me shake with– what did you call it?– thunder
My heart screams, oh, the horror, ah, the wonder
You make me think there’s so much here of the tender
My heart screams, oh, the wonder, ah, the splendor
There’s so much here, I only have to look under
My heart screams, oh, the horror, ah, the wonder
credits
from
SpinTunes #15 Round 1,
released November 4, 2018
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Zoe Gray sprang fully fledged, holding a guitar, from Zeus’s head seventeen years ago. She is now a homeschooling senior in Philadelphia. This summer, she wrote a musical, and is currently learning how to fully orchestrate it with Berklee Online. Spintunes champion, feminist bard, wild fey, bastard, Shakespeare aficionado.
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