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Worm was Wood Lyrics
worm was wood
snail was an ocelot
the deer in the headlights
was a marigold in bloom
lily was light
and a teardrop was a grain of sand
you were counting sweaters
while sheep were howling at the moon
earth was flat
and sugar fly was sewer-rat
the leaves that were blowing
were still growing when we left
bird was bug
and billy was a beetle too
i was in love with you
how quickly we forget
we forget the clothes we wear
were only fur and feathers
we held the world together without proof
we forget the lies we tell were yet to be invented
and we lived with only instinct and the truth
snake was stick
and branches were open arms
the tide came in
and it covered up our bed
worm was wood
this used to be a neighbourhood
you made a promise
how quickly we forget
how quickly we forget
snail was an ocelot
the deer in the headlights
was a marigold in bloom
lily was light
and a teardrop was a grain of sand
you were counting sweaters
while sheep were howling at the moon
and sugar fly was sewer-rat
the leaves that were blowing
were still growing when we left
and billy was a beetle too
i was in love with you
how quickly we forget
were only fur and feathers
we held the world together without proof
we forget the lies we tell were yet to be invented
and we lived with only instinct and the truth
and branches were open arms
the tide came in
and it covered up our bed
this used to be a neighbourhood
you made a promise
how quickly we forget
how quickly we forget
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i've just properly listened to the lyrics of this song and i am blown away! it's difficult to say what it's about but i would have to guess at saying it's something to do with having something wonderful taken away without regret from the guilty party. now she feels like "the deer in the headlights" rather than the "marigold in bloom" that she used to feel. just a stab in the dark though with that!
I thought it was about making everything worse, "A tear drop was a grain of sand." It used to be something normal but it's turned into something sad. "You were counting sweaters whilst sheep were howling at the moon." but maybe it's everything in opposites, like the world has been turned upside down? It's a hard one, but some songs aren't made to make sense to anyone but the writer.
Simone didn't write this, Frank Bango and Richy Vesecky. Richy does the lyrics, Frank does the music.
Quoting Simone herself:
"I think it's about how everything is connected, we're all one, and there is no linear time. everything recycles. and the pain in a heartbreak is found in the seeds of the moment you met"
what a brilliant song.