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No Excalibur

by Tele Novella

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Recorded by Paul Millar at Bug Sound and Mastered by Barry Simon

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Silence is delivering its
Monologue to the dumbstruck night
Eighteen layers of paint on the house
crying so softly in this quiet

Oh, I have known so many nights like this
I'm on my own, I'm on my own

A statue, fully-formed, in the middle of a stone
I'm no Excalibur, I'll get out on my own

Dancing streets step on my feet
I myself never learned to lead
Orphan dreams growing like weeds
I've got my pockets filled with seeds

Oh, I have known so many nights like this
I'm on my own, I'm on my own

I called into the night and got a cosmic dial tone
Don't try to cut it out, it goes straight to the bone

All I have is a grain of sand
Pressed in the precious mouth of an oyster
Though it's slight, I'm up all night
Who am I to find a pea under the mattress?

Yet--I can feel it rise
It brings tears to my eyes
and decorates my whole life
Reel in the line
Hold it up to the light
I know what I've got
But I don't know why
they ever bite.

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released November 8, 2013

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Tele Novella Austin, Texas

Tele Novella is a project out of Lockhart, Texas--a small town lost in time---where their classic and sincere pop songwriting is slowly processed through a loner medieval-tonk machine and then captured on cassette 8-track. Their latest record, Poet's Tooth, steers the duo’s whimsical western-tinted balladry in fascinating new directions. It's out now on Kill Rock Stars. ... more

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