Shut Up

from Now, Now by Know Orchestra

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Shut up
Shut up
But don’t shut
down
Shut up
Shut up
What
a glut
of sound

That floods the market
Floods the square
Floods the basement
Floods the air
It floods my head
And fills me whole
I hear it’s drowning out my soul

And shut up
Shut up
Chorus in my brain
In every key
You raise the strain

You raise the kids
You raise the dead
You raise a million ways to dread
the haze of trying to make choices
Which is mine in all these voices?

I’m here
I’m here
I’m here
I’m here

I can hear
I can hear
I can hear
I can hear

I’m a satellite dish
I'm an empty cup
I’m a wide receiver
With both hands up

I’m a bow and a quiver
and a bud in the spring
a long hollow tube
and an unplayed string

From my heart to my hands
From my lungs to my limbs
From my nerves to my knees
From my tonsils to my toenails
From my bald head to my bunions

I’m all ears
I’m all ears
I’m all ears
We’re all ears

So
Hit it!
Hit it!
Hit it!
Hit it!
Hit it!
Hit it!
Hit it!
Hit it!
Hit it!
Hit it!
Hit it!
Then shut up!

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from Now, Now, released March 11, 2022

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