Single by Brendan Bonsack



When I was seven

I was convinced

I could hear the sun



A high pitched roar

Flailing the tall grass and

Rumbling the tops of the trees



You're big enough to walk now

But watch out for snakes

Around your feet



Nana said it was just the insects

Talking to each other

But she couldn’t hear a thing

It has to be the sun, I said

I only ever hear it in the daytime



Under the covers at night

I gazed at my astronomy book

That blazing giant and

All of its planets in a row

Pastel and smooth

A finger and a thumb between them



When I was seven

That snowball Pluto

Was still one of them



My science book says

Sound is the changes

That we feel inside us

In the air pressure pressed against us

The lilt in Nana's voice

Is a long summer's day



And she said it's just the insects

Talking to each other

But she couldn’t hear a thing

It has to be the sun, I said

I only ever hear it in the daytime



For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/the-sun-sound


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