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Cicala

by Cicala

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1.
Truck Stop 02:44
i’m at a truck stop in oklahoma. i was feeling real down so i thought i would call you and warn ya. the payday’s lookin tighter than i thought so i might need some money if you want me to get home this month. all this time that i bought well it doesn’t mean a thing to you. i was at a taco bell in california when i thought i felt a change in my brain about all my goals. feels like i haven’t slept for weeks and the only time i move is when i get on my feet. i’m always bored so i eat and i haven’t figured out how to settle the score yet. i might fall in love with carolina. i could never really leave only short weeks when i need to go. find someone i like enough and live off the land as much as i can but it’s rough. it’s always the end and the never comes oh no it don’t. i’ll be at a rest stop in minnesota when i figure out what i’m doin, what i’m doin. what am i doin? what am i doin?
2.
Intervention 03:32
cold walls got me handling my old hauls just moving shit again. have fun on your long vacation. waltz stunned just hanging with your friends. half sounds diggin in my patience. just found a little dirt in my bed. a black hound; i think i kinda miss it. you’re rarely around but i always need it. dry air draws in my breath like old hair in the car at night and a green light shining through my window. take me tonight cause i wanna go. to the place i’ve never been. to the house in the attic. to your first intervention. to your ghost and your habits. to the sight of the death of them. and to my last visit. when things seem so decadent i don’t know how to face them old house quit bothering me. skipped town haven’t slept for weeks. i feel down take a walk round the peak again
3.
Worm 02:21
worm all my troubles go unheard when you nudge your head right into my brain and affect my nerves. simple touch you think that it’d be enough. anytime something goes right everything gets worse and the right times comes but i just don’t have the urge. bird did you really want me first? can i get hurt if i get lost and take a wrong turn? well you thought i’d learn a thing or two about using words to make my view a little foggier when you need me to lean into yours. another day comes a blur and then i just head to work. i don’t wanna be like my ancestors it’s a curse.
4.
Will 03:33
you’re always breaking shit when i’m looking the other way. it’s already tomorrow but it feels like yesterday. i don’t wanna go back to bed even though i should. down the street it’s caddy corner to her old place. i’m sad it’s over but i really need a break. i’ve smiled at you like six times today but it’s all good. if i go home it’s real. don’t cry i’ll deal. but if it was up to me you know i would. i like driving all the time and all this week it’s like i’ve never felt more alive in a parking lot. i don’t need to feel everything i did. i’ll wear a hearing aid and you’ll get glasses for your eyes. the sun’s coming down and the floor’s gonna cave in right under my legs. you’ll be feeling it tomorrow but now i’m glad to be. by spring you’ll see that when it’s up to me you know i will if i go home it’s real. don’t cry i’ll deal. i’ll fix the van i’m free. pick you up come three. drive to another state and never leave.
5.
Interstate 03:22
i got friends that are friends of friends of my friends and we meet up every once in a while. i don’t know the next time i’ll see you but it’s time before 2019 ends and i get a little bit older again. i keep on letting this happen. when i get to the point where i accept my age it changes and i end up the same in the end. not now but maybe some day. i got boys in the back seat of my car now. they’ve been ringing out another tune. he told me that when it’s over they’ll be asking why i’m gone so soon but i like it better on the interstate. it’s hard to tell where you’ve been or where you’ve played when everything just seems to look the same again. i’m tryna find if i’m faded or i’m broken in.
6.
Red Rocks 02:29
red rocks they roll me the wrong way and i’ve been sleeping on floors for five days straight. today i saw this kid break his ankle on pavement and i didn’t call the ambulance. i didn’t get a phone call from you. i didn’t catch any of your attitude. on every block i’m looking for you and i know you looked for me too seven long years in the same position. i feel anger and remorse towards you and the more that i’m gone more i feel distant now i think through every week. movement and silence all around me. i feel anxious in the back and nauseous in the front and a nervous tick building up inside me every time you change the song and i get reminded of home and how it’s you and how i’ve always got someone to be at all times and i can’t leave. i can barely respond to anything. everything everyone and anything.
7.
Speak 04:15
the sun is only here for a moment. i go back in and out and it’s gone. and i don’t really feel so devoted to my health and myself if i’m wrong. lately i’ve been seeing the world with a different lens. it’s got character and plot development. and i don’t feel heard by these men. i take one step away from the group and i’m lost. saw you in a parking lot of a starbucks with your hair all tied up now. seemed to bother me somehow. but i don’t wanna know you or all that you’ve been through. sometimes it’s old news. other times it’s previews. you don’t really love me. loving ain’t that easy. it’s like you’re on tv and you can’t speak to me. i feel just like a little kid when i think about the things that i said or did to you when i was seventeen or last week. it only gets to me if i remember it. got a little bit of buzz in my system so right now i don’t feel down but i’ll find a way somehow. you don’t really like me. if you did you wouldn’t be this kind of person i don’t feel so appealing like you can’t speak to me.
8.
Tahoe 02:50
walkin back on the idea i had when i was with you only holding the cracks in the ceiling coming from above. this place is filling up and i can’t swim and you can’t hold your breath for long. i know you like the back of my hand or a song. treat you like you’re always right when you’re wrong. i don’t mind you but i can’t just read your mind. feel myself getting warmer as the sun comes up you slowly reach over and touch my shoulder. times have been tough but not hard enough to admit my faults or feel any pressure. i’m in tahoe waiting for a next stop on the road. kicking myself for things that i told. you don’t mind me but you can’t just read my mind.
9.
Turn it Off 04:09
i know you’re gone when my door’s wide open. in my dream i met a brand new person. they hated you more than i do when you get under my nerves again. treating me as if i’m one dimensional. quoting fight club like it’s goddamn original. taking me seriously when i mean hypothetical like what if we just lived in the moment? you leave the tv on. it’s always on. turn it off so i can speak. and i don’t think it’s right for me to leave without you thinking about what the hell that means. you’re like a record with just one song. you took me on your family vacation met your younger sister who had a pet lion. it bit my hip off and i woke up feeling like i was waiting to get off my shift. it’s fucking with my dreams. computer’s on. it’s always on. turn it off so i can sleep. and i don’t think there’s a single thing that i can do to make you change. come on and talk to me.

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songs written by quinn cicala
arrangements by cicala + matteo

recorded at the pocono house in lackawaxen, pa
produced by matteo debenedetti
mixed by erik romero
mastered by phillip shaw bova

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released January 8, 2021

quinn cicala - vocals, guitar
james uzzel - drums, vocals
jackson may - lead guitar, slide guitar on track 8
jose rangel - keys, organ, vocals
fisher wilson - bass, vocals
matteo debenedetti - vocals, percussion
jenna murphy - vocals on tracks 1, 4, 8
erik romero - slide guitar on tracks 1, 4

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Cicala Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

cicala is a band from myrtle beach, sc
new album out 1/8/21

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