Name: Cicadas
Duration: P00H06M46S
Description: Our hero finds his way to a forest, far from the crowd that fully intended to use his head as a football after he was finished swinging at the end of their rope. He has a further metaphysical transition and actually becomes part of the land that he has found. He merges with this magical place and abandons mankind to its fully deserved fate.

Cicadas

from The Quiet Earth Orchestra by John Ludi (as The Quiet Earth Orchestra)

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Our hero finds his way to a forest, far from the crowd that fully intended to use his head as a football after he was finished swinging at the end of their rope. He has a further metaphysical transition and actually becomes part of the land that he has found. He merges with this magical place and abandons mankind to its fully deserved fate.

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CICADAS

Here, here, in the woods where I fell down,
words, words, trees whisper sacred sounds.
Hum, hum, cicadas call from all around.
Run, run, so tired of running. Try, try, so tired of trying.
Will, will, the will has left me,
I sit and watch the breeze bustling the trees.

Calm, calm, leaves and limbs ask me to stay.
Rest, rest, just eat and drink and play.
Sleep, sleep, let the world just fade away.
Run, run, so tired of running. Try, try, so tired of trying.
Gone, gone, the world can't find me...
they're making new regrets, and soon they will all forget.

I'm falling down into a nest of green and brown.
I'll rest my weary soul amidst nature's simple sounds.
I will abandon man as all his cities burn.
I will merge with this land, never to return.

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from The Quiet Earth Orchestra, released February 19, 2008
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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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