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lyrics

Dusty skin on two cranes,
Beneath the 5 o'clock fruit bowl, of
Mangoes and apples, purples and blues,
Grape coloured shapes and ballet shoes.

My two cranes like extracts of pylons.
Like two lanky siblings, in a kingdom of sandpits.
Portable sisters, yet they are my folks.
My elderly parents all North, and remote.

Who suck it up, and build me my hot pocket home,
Whilst doing their backs in. They are diz-lur-hackti,
They are worker bees and are dislocating their twiggy boned bodies.
They are not criers. They are snappers.

They stand, they don't sit. They spit on the rest.
Billy looks just like her first birthday cake.

They endure the weaklings, champagne tears, and
No! They are not quokkas - they are Ballerinas.
Now snap that back, try it! Snap that titanium spine.
Snap that Ballerina! Snap that Ballerina!

Spin, spin, twist, spin, twist,
Swirl, twist - on the point of your toe.

Snap that impressive Russian. Snap that little tasteless musk stick.
Snap that figurine, Snap that perfected wedding cake icon.
Snap that overwhelmingly featherweight performer.
Snap that lover of long-dead Tchaikovsky.
Snap that skintight, spray-painted, century-old VCR possession.
Snap that Ballerina.

Chase that smug shadow. You know its there.
Give on in - my little ringlet thingy.
Wrench your neck. Wrench your neck!
Forewarn us of the snappery.
And out with the preachers with leaches, on each of our
Musical spinning boxes, where
Pink, little, crystallised lasses indizzinate
You, and me, and Crane - In its little cradle,
Rocking away.

Rocking away.

Snap that dizzy dancer.

credits

from Zyklus Live At The Tote 2019., released October 4, 2019
Guitar/Vox: Drew Woolley
Percussion: Shaun Woof.

All music and lyrics by Drew Woolley and Shaun Woof.

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Zyklus Perth, Australia

With an array of cross-disciplinary influences, Zyklus aim to achieve a distinctly grey sound, comprised of harsh dissonance, minimal instrumentation, elusive melody, and often violent gestures within the context of notably spacious forms. Lyrically, thematic material can be bleakly evocative, incorporating opaque metaphor, and consistent reference to the cheerless Mundane. ... more

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