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Monster Island

from Quivering Things by Surprise Flapjacks

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When I was young, well, I guess I was like anyone. I hid and I hung and I dreamed I was Godzilla’s son. Now I am older; I know help is not on the way from Monster Island’s sacred boulders -- at least, not today. But I stayed anyway.

Pull onto the shoulder. I don’t know what bridge we have crossed. A couple wrong turns in the country at night, and I’m lost. I am lost. And if you say you can’t see me tonight, I’ll take you at your word. Something descends in the evening tonight that never has occurred as a word.

When all’s said and told, I am grateful that you looked away when I sprouted new scales, then a tail, and then burst into flames. So they say, but you stayed anyway. And if I said that I knew you tonight, don’t take me at my word. There was a wind blowing through you tonight, and nothing that I heard was a word.

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from Quivering Things, released July 3, 2014

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Surprise Flapjacks Durham, North Carolina

Surprise Flapjacks makes music about communists, existential crises, zombies, and lovesickness (and, of course, zombie lovesickness). The Carrboro and Durham-based five-piece creates melodic, energetic pop awash in sugary hooks and group harmonies, shot through with nervous surrealism, and tempered with submerged melancholy. ... more

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