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Miss The Moon

from Probably as Good as it Gets by JetBelly

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I like SciFi. But it could happen.

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Someday they’re gonna look up
As they kiss their babies’ cheeks
Tell ‘em what the moon once looked like
To the poets and the Greeks

Before they smoothed it out
To a silver ball
And cut it into countries
And built the wall

Back when it used to wane
Until it disappeared
Before the lights of its cities
Kept it bright all year

Ooh they’re gonna miss it
Yeah they’re gonna miss it
They’re gonna miss
The way they kissed
Way back when no one could resist it
Ooh they’re gonna miss that poets’ moon

Ooh. ooh.

And in the movies
They’ll add a stand-in moon
That felt the way it did
In some old Gershwin tune

And the actors will pretend
To recognize
The way the moon reflects the truths
In a lovers’ eyes

And afterwards this moon will win
Academy awards
Walk the carpet with the starlet
And be adored

In his speech he’ll say, “we miss it
Yeah boy do we miss it
We’re gonna miss all that we risked
Way back when no one could resist it”
Yeah we sure do miss that poet’s moon

ooh. ooh.

From the sea of tranquility
We’re always centered in the sky
Longing from much greater distances
Than meets the eye

And what does heaven mean now
And what does heaven mean now

Someday they’re gonna look up
Free of the mystique
They’re going wonder what the fuss was about
To those poets and those Greeks

After all it’s just a mirror
They got kin up in New Houston
That web of lights and billboards is
just something you get used to

Saw how it was in a movie once
And on that moon that script relies
It must have put on quite a show back then
You could see it in their eyes

Ooh they’re gonna miss it
Yeah they’re gonna miss it
They’re gonna miss, miss
Oh how the memory persists
Yeah they’re gonna miss that poets’ moon

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from Probably as Good as it Gets, released March 17, 2023

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JetBelly Los Angeles, California

JetBelly is a project of bassist Scott Montgomery, based in Studio City, CA; Scott takes a guitar, recording interface and a AKG C214 mic pretty much anywhere in the world, if they'll let it on the plane, so songs or pieces of songs have been recorded in odd corners of Nashville and Paris, Providence and Provence, Kauai and St Martin and dozens of other cities. ... more

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