katydid

from boundarypush by Wren Dove Lark

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This song is simultaneously an ode to my inner child who I still at times feel so far away from as well as an elegy for a burgeoning friendship I was building with someone who I lost to suicide just as we were getting closer. I have a lot of flashbacks for both cases, and the metaphor of a katydid really describes that feeling of having a flashback so well. It's a sudden jumping from one memory to another, and when the next jump happens is so unpredictable. This song was a really healing one for me to write. I hope it helps someone else.

lyrics

[Verse 1]

And it's weird
Thinking 'bout you in the past tense
Knowing that you're gone
But I can't make sense of this reality I'm living in

And it's strange
Feeling stuck in this material plane
In this form I've long since escaped
Trapped inside your skin

I try to tell myself

[Prechorus]

That you're the fly on the wall
Bug in my ear
Feeling caught in a swarm
Get me out of here

Fireflies in the sky
Wonder where they go
Make a wish and hope that you will know

[Chorus]

You're always jumping 'round my thoughts like a katydid
Here you call from afar it's like I'm there again
Sent some waves to your antennae did they reach you?
I hope you know that I'd do anything to please you

I felt some tears coming looking through my photographs
I saw your dorky little smile and it made me laugh
Thought of ways that we both compromised to live
Somehow we made it though

I miss you, little katydid
Oh
I miss you, little katydid

[Verse 2]

'Cause it's so bizarre
Feeling your presence when you're far away
Wishing that you knew it's hard for me to say I'm struggling so bad

And is it sad?
Knowing that this is what it's come to
Dreaming of a portal I can jump through to be the savior that you needed then

But maybe

[Prechorus]

You're the fly on the wall
Bug in my ear
Feeling caught in a swarm
Get me out of here

Fireflies in the sky
Wonder where they go
Make a wish and hope that you will know

[Chorus]

You're always jumping 'round my thoughts like a katydid
Here you call from afar it's like I'm there again
Sent some waves to your antennae did they reach you?
I hope you know that I'd do anything to please you

I felt some tears coming looking through my photographs
I saw your dorky little smile and it made me laugh
Thought of ways that we both compromised to live
Somehow we made it though

I miss you, little katydid
I miss you
I miss you, little katydid

[Bridge/Outro]

And I miss all of your memories
Suspended inside amber
I struggle to remember
Myself before I left you

It's this strange effect you have on me
Where
I get lost inside the ecstacy
Of everything
We could have been
My mind is jumping
Oh
My mind is jumping
Oh
My mind is jumping
Oh
It's jumping just like a katydid
I miss you, I love you little katydid
We deserved much better than we'd get
I loved you little katydid.

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from boundarypush, released February 9, 2024

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Wren Dove Lark Newark, New Jersey

I'm Wren (she/her). I write weird pop music for trans girls to cathartically cry to. If others get something from my music, that's awesome too. :)

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