Summertime Buddha

from The Sloth Cycle (Volume 1) by Sloth Metropolis

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“But you don’t need to repeat the same mistakes as me. I know someone who works at the Kelvingrove. The taxidermy sloth there is looking pretty flea bitten, so they’re after a replacement. If you can sit still & play dead, like sloths do best, I’m sure they’d give you the job.”

The Sloth is now solvent, surrounded by friends, wishing this perfect night might never end. He’s climbed Maslow’s ladder a couple of rungs, so now the real work of his life has begun…

When the days are long but the hours short
When the work is done and the lesson taught
There’s a mad mandala in a third eye
There’s an inner light from an outer sky

I always wanna be a Buddha in the summer

But when the sun goes away
It seems this feeling will not stay

When the leaves all fall and the days are short
Winter brings its own rewards
Pagan rites, distorted mics
Firework and flame on November nights
Solstice back at the highland home
Electric wizard on a Dark throne
Hibernation for a dozen weeks
Hibernation while the summer sleeps

But when the sun comes back around
It seems this feeling has been re-found…

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from The Sloth Cycle (Volume 1), released August 8, 2014

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Sloth Metropolis Glasgow, UK

SLOTH METROPOLIS is a musical mythology & ongoing sloth-themed rock opera told in prog, psych, folk and paper mache.

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