Lyrics
(Message machine beeps)
Hey, it's me. Uh, it's Tuesday, just before closing.
The rain started sideways on Telegraph Avenue again.
A couple just left, silent as a blown fuse.
Put a phone on my counter, the screen spiderwebbed with the news.
[Chorus]
Some apocalypses are private, you know?
No trumpets, just two shadows in my storefront's amber glow.
Yeah, some apocalypses are private and slow.
[Verse 2]
He stared at the schematics taped up on my wall,
Like he was looking for a diagram to make sense of it all.
She said, "The speaker's gone too," with a voice barely there,
It smelled like hot dust and ozone, and an un-answered prayer.
[Chorus]
Some apocalypses are private, you know?
No trumpets, just two shadows in my storefront's amber glow.
Yeah, some apocalypses are private and slow.
[Bridge]
Guess I saw the last transmission between their two nodes.
Just wanted to hear a dial tone at the end of your road.
[Chorus]
Some apocalypses are private, you know?
No trumpets, just two shadows in my storefront's amber glow.
Yeah, some apocalypses are private and slow.
[Outro]
Anyway. Call me back when you get this.
(Click)
About Sly Stoney
Sly Stoney was named after a funk legend by his parents, a fact that has haunted him ever since. After dropping out of an Urban Planning program at UC Davis, he moved back to his native West Oakland with a mountain of student debt, a 1972 fuzz bass, and an oversized houseplant named Larry. His music is the sound of that decision: paranoid, joyful, deeply funky, and wrestling with the feeling of…
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