Body in Motion

by Spectator Bird

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lyrics

I wanna be a body in motion
I wanna make a quiet commotion
Don’t you wish you were a wave in the ocean?
Rollin, rollin, a body in motion

I wanna be a Kenmore sewing machine
Nineteen sixties army green
Keep things together with my seams
From a needle piercing unapologetically

I wanna be a body in motion
I wanna make a quiet commotion
Don’t you wish you were a wave in the ocean?
Rollin, rollin, a body in motion

I wanna be
that thing that sits on people’s desks in the movies
A system of weights and of strings
That moves back and forth click-clacking auspiciously

But to be honest
I had to look up what auspicious meant
It means 'conducive to success'
I want to
Conduce
Success, success
I wish I weren’t a mess
Success, success
I wish I weren’t a mess

I wanna be a body in motion
I wanna make a quiet commotion
Don’t you wish you were content with knowing
You’re no one, no one
You’re just a body in motion

credits

released January 21, 2022
Guitar and vocals: Lindsey and Rachel FitzGerald
Bass and vocals: Taylor Bess
Electric Guitar: Rebecca Wudarski
Percussion/The Great Cymbal Collaboration: Taylor Bess and Rebecca Wudarski.

Engineered and mixed by Taylor Bess at In Your Studios in Richmond, VA.
Mastered by Jeff Saltzman in Portland, OR.

Photo: our mom - the ultimate body in motion - on a trike in front of her mom and grandparents in 1956.

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Sister-folk from the Shenandoah Valley.

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