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Hugo Returns

from Every Bug Wants To Live by Matt Oleksa

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Good evening, how are you?
It’s so good to see you
I’ve been thinking about you
Ever since you went away
Did you climb a mountain?
Did you drink from a fountain?
Was the food good in Portugal?
Or was it Spain?
Did it ever rain?
Looks like it might rain

Anouk took to drinking
When Anouk took to feeding
The madman off the caravan
With a cracked silver spoon
And the neighbor’s shoulder
Has grown a little colder
Blue moss on the cross
Whittled from a willow tree
Or was it hickory?
Or chicken bone?

Billows of scarlet a-gatherin’
The Black Sea is ragin’
A funeral, a sister’s weddin’
Brought Hugo back again

The nurses drink vodka
The radio plays polka
Grandpa’s on fire
But he don’t feel a thing
The Steppe in the stucco
Loose-leaf tobacco
Ropes of smoke tie tongues to the moon
But that ain’t the moon
It’s a cold clock

Billows of scarlet a-gatherin’
The Black Sea is ragin’
A funeral, a sister’s weddin’
Brought Hugo back again

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from Every Bug Wants To Live, released June 18, 2015
Matt Oleksa: vocals, guitars, harmonica, percussion, slide whistle

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