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The tune and lyrics popped spontaneously into my head while I was walking by night through a graveyard near my house. As best I can tell, the lyrics evoke a period in my youth when I suffered from some seriously traumatizing episodes of night terror.

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Hark! To the croak of the lock
The cream on the clock
How we’ve all been wasted a while
Hail! O Queen of Yesterday’s Gone!
Calendar’s child!
(My wolf in the wailing Western Wind)
Hope? I don't have a hope
Like a dope-on-a-rope
When I see thru skeleton eyes
Look to the future when it arrives
Try and feign surprise
(How well I've walked these worlds of confusion)
Are you coming up? I’ll be there, waiting for you at the station
Have a sip from a Golden cup
On a one-way trip through our own imagination
Ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling me on yr telephone
Sing it to me like a told you when I said “I want to be a bird”
I’ll say hello! Hello! Hello! Hello!
O! My shadow, so tall! Eclipse o’er the wall!
How I love yr terminal mind!
Lean and askance as casual glances
Form connecting lines
(Much too nobly cast for a jealous regard)
Here I come again, Ma!
I’m gonna drift into the sand before I’m deadly!
Kick the bombs and light the tyres
Sign my shroud and put me back to bed,
Ali! I’m sleeping!
I had a little nightmare that my room was spinning faster
Than the coruscating digits of a rotary-motor telephone
But Rama didn’t want me in his armchair Mama
So I dried my eyes and faced my fears alone.

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from Her Majesty's Secret Circus Vol. 1, released May 21, 2022

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The Great Speckled Fritillary Vancouver, British Columbia

The lovely butterfly-dragons of Sona-Nyl are insectoid creatures with beautifully-patterned wings, insect-like legs and long, curved necks and tails. These creatures feed solely on nectar, fragrant odours and silence. If threatened, a butterfly-dragon responds by emitting a rose-coloured mist from glands along the sides of its body. Anyone inhaling or even touching this mist goes deaf. ... more

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