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Talking Housefly Blues

from Dead Birds by Hunter Hicks

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Smoke fills the air, over a long dirty floor
Don't have much reason to clean up around here anymore
'Cause the kids are all grown up now, and their ma left long ago
Now it's just me on the couch in that warm TV glow
But I've seen all these shows before, and the news is just the same
Same old problems with someone else to catch the blame
But I couldn't turn that t.v. off, not even for the day
'Cause with all that peace and quiet, I just don't know what I'd say
Until one day I was laying back, watching the cigarette smoke rise
When I heard in my ear, the buzzing of a fly
So I sat up real quick and I looked for a magazine
But that old holy bible, was the closest thing I'd seen
So I picked up my remote, and I turned that t.v. off
When somewhere in the distance, I hear a hum of wing real soft
So I took each step real slow, direct with every move
Until the little buzzing wings were the loudest thing in the room
And there against the window, he sat real still
And I pulled that old book back, and made in for the kill
When I crashed into the window, and his guts smeared on the pane
And the smoke and dust was clear, it was only I that remain
Then the room got real quiet again, and then came to me a thought
What's a man got left to do, when there's no more flies to swat?

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from Dead Birds, released June 10, 2019

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Hunter Hicks Laramie, Wyoming

Hunter Hicks, raised in the state of Wyoming and currently based out of New Orleans, performs original songs meant to blend into the great American songbook. An ode to the tradition of songwriting, reminiscing the craft of everything from Lightning Hopkins to Hank Williams, Hicks sees American folk music as a tradition that can survive the modern world. ... more

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