By Michael Guy Bowman bowman Bandcamp YouTube YouTube mguybowman Twitter michaelguybowman.com Other mguybowman Instagram ← Overboard Previous track by this artist → Merry-Go-Round Next track by this artist.
Released 8/9/2024.
Duration: 3:16.

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General contributors:

• Bijan Eghtesady melancholyrobot Bandcamp melancholy_robo Twitter ← Overboard Previous general contribution by this artist → Merry-Go-Round Next general contribution by this artist (drums)

Lyrics:

Little fly, don't you die so easy
I know you only live a day
Weathered by the winds so high and breezy
Don't you let this evening slip away
Little legs hatch from eggs each morning (ooh)
Silhouettes hardly ever change (ooh)
Stomach begs the musky dregs adorning (ooh)
For a taste of something new and strange (ooh)

Oh, open up your eyes
Can't you see you're falling for the venus fly?
Oh, won't you tell me why
You keep living like you're never gonna die?

Little speck, don't you wreck your wingspan
The beating of which gives to you your name
Keep in check below your neck for things can
So easily be plucked upon your frame
Spiders crawling forest walls you've thwarted (ooh)
You circumvent the snatch of froggy tongue (ooh)
The birds who call from perches tall you've shorted (ooh)
But on this fang you let yourself be hung? (ooh)

Oh, open up your eyes
Can't you see you're falling for the venus fly?
Oh, won't you tell me why
You keep living like you're never gonna die?
Never gonna die
Don't you know that it's a lie?
You were only passing by, for a try, another high
Now the jaws will never pry

"Come and play," you hear it say so sweetly
Nothing else had ever been so bold
But where you lay it's had its way discreetly
With all the rest who never grew so old
The same disease that lures the bees to pollen (ooh)
Pulls you where no free thing should involve (ooh)
In the squeeze of this the tease you've fallen (ooh)
Now to feel your body be dissolved (ooh)

Oh, open up your eyes
Can't you see you're falling for the venus fly?
Oh, won't you tell me why
You keep living like you're never gonna die?
Never gonna die
Don't you know that it's a lie?
You were only passing by, for a try, another high
Now the jaws will never pry