Bugs Like Shade

bugs like shade--yeah, bugs like shade
bugs like shade--they like day-old plates of green marmelade
bugs like shade--they like nehi grape and pink lemonade
bugs like shade--they get stuck in your pomade
'cause bugs like shade
bu--ugs, bu--ugs like shade
oooh bugs like shade
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bu-u-u-ugs--bugs like shade
bugs like bugs like
bugs like shade...
yeah bugs like shade--bugs like shade
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bugs like shade--they fly around and they ain't afraid
bugs like shade-- from edinburgh to everglade
bugs like shade-- from aberdeen to adelaide
from reykjavik to rivercade, bugs like shade

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into their swarthy swarm i swayed--bugs like shade--
this is why the mantis prayed—bugs like shade
for sweet cicada serenade—bugs like shade
my antique self i antiquate
listen to these words i sayed

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bugs like shade--bugs like bugs like
bugs like shade
bu--ugs, bu--ugs like shade
oooh bugs like shade
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creaky fiddlin' crickets played
dryads drowse in murky braid
wrapped in roots, the breeze evade
on forest floors till heavens fade
tucked away from gleaming glade
burning blade of sunfire sprayed
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bugs like shade
bugs like bugs like bugs like shade...

(words and music ©️July 2024 by Michael Scott Langley)