Fly on the Windowsill

from Left Steps Demo by Cree Sullivan

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Acoustic demo version of Fly on the Windowsill from the Right of Way EP. Song I wrote while maintaining a longish distance relationship with my then girlfriend (now wife), mostly by driving back and forth from Champaign-Urbana to Peoria like every other week.

lyrics

We're in a fuss about the right of way
when the car up front is overturned.
All of these nuts are trying to drive in my lane,
gonna see my baby girl.

And it's true that she lights me up slow,
and my downfall's a redhead composed,
but this time I've been liable to moan
since I got on the road.

Here in the night not getting what I want,
but let it suffice to turn my headlights on.
Sitting back driving not doing much at all
when my line of sight picks out a miscreant --
a fly on the windowsill.

Flutter down fly, you're such an unbearable thing,
and you won't go out the way you came in.
You're no friend of mine, and you better stay out of my way
as we cross these county lines.

And it's true that she lights me up slow,
and my downfall's a redhead composed,
but this time I've been liable to moan
since I got on the road.

Here in the night and I've waited far too long
with the radio droning this fucking asinine song.
It was my turn to drive, and I know what contracts are,
but it's a firm footed miracle I got this far.

On the outskirts of town, and I'm unbelievably late,
my knuckles white waiting at a red light.
Add fifteen on top over the backroads -- quarter to midnight
speeding recklessly down the street.

And it's true that she lights me up slow,
and my downfall's a redhead composed,
but this time I've been liable to moan
since I got on the road.

When a street light reveals my bitter enemy,
so I grab a CD case and I crush him utterly.
When I look up and see the wall coming at me,
I'm feeling alive, and I'm feeling close to death...

...I'm a fly on the windowsill.

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from Left Steps Demo, released May 24, 2021

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Cree Sullivan Detroit, Michigan

Bluesy/groovy singer songwriter living in the Detroit area. Book me for gigs: promise I'm vaccinated.

Also check out all the angsty prog rock I released in college.

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