Earthquake City

 

Earthquake City

When I started writing this song, I thought it was gonna be all abstract, with random, dream-like imagery. But, then the song glued itself together and ended up having a coherent theme, after all.

I get lotsa myoclonic jerks when I'm tryin' to sleep - those are mini-seizures, where you wake up with a jerk. But "wake up with a jerk" can be a play on words, as in, you wake up with a man in your bed, who's a jerk. 

It's like, you know that point in time where you realize a relationship isn't going to work? It can feel like an earthquake. It can make you wake up to the fact that things aren't working. It can make you wake up to the fact that he's a jerk. You can wake up with a myoclonic jerk that shakes you like an earthquake and find a man in your bed, who's a jerk. It's a wake up call - wake up and smell the icky-gross flavored coffee: It's time to break up.

The lyrics are:

I am the great earthquake, That shakes you wide awake
I shook the world apart, ashes live inside my heart

Earthquake city
Sits in your dreams

Your dreams are everywhere, singing inside your hair
When they come out to play, earthquakes come the very next day

Earthquake city
Giving you shitty dreams

You woke up with a jerk
And knew it would not work
No, you don't like to be shaken
But now you are awake, friend
You've got a myoclonic boyfriend
And you wonder how the fuck it happened
This won't work, you're stirred and you're shaken
He's a jerk, and now you're awakened
I am a dream apart from the world in your heart
I am the great earthquake that shook your world awake

Earthquake city
Sits in your dreams

Earthquake city
Giving you shitty dreams

(You have a myoclonic boyfriend)

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