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What is the Moon?

from Berliners by Surprise Flapjacks

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What is the moon? Don’t look at me like I’ve been drinking a few. You know I asked you a question – I expect an answer soon. So tell me what is, tell me, what is a loon? You took the medicine they offered to you. You sucked it off of a spoon and then you asked for seconds too.

The Galileans say it’s cratered and it’s grooved. They sold their surveillance just like traders to the news. Yeah, well just give me a box of crayons and I can make a picture too. But I have seen it with my eyes, and in the sky it just looks smooth. Then it’s a sickle; then it drops out of view.

What is the what is the WHAT IS THE MOON?

What do you mean, satellite? I think the pagans and the tribes had it right – they sat their kids on the altar, then they shat themselves in fright. What do you mean, the dark side? Well I’ve been watching – they don’t turn out the light, as from Japan to Gibraltar we blink out like fireflies.

You know, I’ve heard about the music of the spheres. I swear I have been stirred at night by something in my ear, and just as sure as every government makes confusion a career, they have been tuning their instruments for the grandest of premieres. And when the band lines up, we’re gonna hear!

WHAT IS THE what is the WHAT IS THE MOON?

What is it what is it what is it what is it?

I don’t think that I woke up from my dream to fill my cup when I was young, back when I was young… Suddenly my eyes looked up at a violent interrupt, and I went dumb, yes I was struck dumb. Now we blow smoke in the bowery and drink up the dowry, and then we’re done. Yes, and then we’re done. I have been watching the hours – they topple like towers. And when we’re gone, what will then stand up?

I don’t think I’ve looked upon anything or anyone for near as long, and it looked back long. It was so unthinking as it hung, more unblinking than the sun. And was it flung, yes or was it sung? What can speak without a tongue? What can breach without a gun? And was it rung, yes or was it drummed?

What is the moon?

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from Berliners, released September 29, 2011

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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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