When You Turn On the Light

by Frog Eyes

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When You Turn On the Light is the first single from the new Frog Eyes album The Bees out on Paper Bag Records on

Frog Eyes is, on The Bees:
Carey Mercer, vox, guitars, organizing/mixing/engineering, composition
Shyla Seller, synthesizer, organizing/editing/sound manipulation
Melanie Campbell, drums, editing, composition

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Oh, when you turn on the light

But you don’t understand

That’s wet paint on the wall

And the painting is hell

And the enamelled smell

Sends your headache to hell

And your last two braincells

Dissolved in finishing gel

And the gesso’s chalk smell

It’s on your pillow oh well

And your room-mate is gone

She is heroin gone

And her boyfriend is gone

Hit by a car in the dawn

A marine animal

Pitched in green enamel

In the harbour of hell

Wait: what: the moon is a bell?

That is golden and wrong like this sad memory song

--

I am

Losing the shore and its safe string of lights

Forgetting that I have no resurrection line

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released February 9, 2022
Single artwork for When You Turn on the Light: Derek Janzen

The Bees was written in 2020 and recorded in two sessions in spring 2021

John Raham engineered the sessions at Afterlife Studiosfrhyme

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Frog Eyes Vancouver, British Columbia

Frog Eyes are back with a new album, The Bees out April 29, 2022 via Paper Bag Records.

tw: @frogeyesband

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