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Babies on the bus

from People's Waterworks by Silvervest

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Recorded at Hotel 2 Tango, February 2020

lyrics

Lip-sticked babies. Bearded babies
Smartphoned babies. Going-home babies.
Big-bellied babies. Face-pierced babies.
Red hats, blue, striped, dotted, too.
Cold hands, old eyes.
Soft drinks, to-go fries.

Refain
I see babies on the bus.
Babies on the bus.

Big forms, you know: ham hands, lady legs.
I see small hands, small eyes.
I hear grumbling, groveling, cranky sighs.
But what I really see are
Refrain

Puffy jackets, made-up faces, tattooed knuckles, un-tied laces,
Curly hair smiling Hi. Long arms, stifled cries.
Big emotions tidal waving, candy crush Soduko playing.
Some babies dressed up all nice, others hidden in their cloaking device.
Baby on the I-pad, music spilling out their head.
Entitlement-itis baby. Bleeding-heart baby. I-don’t-give-a-care-or-a-fuck-baby.
Refrain



When I am in Love Mode, I get this idea in my mind
that we’re just babies on the bus, wrapped up in bodies of adults,
Swaddled in layers of ME, layers of stories.
There are personal stories, collective big stories on sound systems
gone bad,
thought patterns ruling sweet babies on the bus.
Sweet babies on the bus.

Everybody wants a hand to hold.
Everybody wants to be told,
“I understand. I understand.
You are original love.
You are original love.”
Babies on the bus.

credits

from People's Waterworks, released June 10, 2020
Kim Zombik: lyrics and music
Nicolas Caloia: music

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Silvervest Montreal, Québec

Silvervest is the duo project of Kim Zombik and Nicolas Caloia. With just voice and bass, their aim is fresh music that plays between swagger and sweetness, caressing and careening, amusing and amazing. Vibrant, the music is unset and generous.

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