Welcome to Spring Hill—the town that rings in Spring. For whom does the bell toll? For the frog the bell tolls! And the snakes that sing themselves to sleep.
These days, where does one find inspiration and illumination? In the great arches and arcades of the past, or the mundane subspaces of today?
For the nostalgic weeaboos of Los Doggies, nothing short of a vintage 80s Gameboy game available only in Japan will suffice for the inspiration of a song.
The opening track of e’rebody, “Spring Hill”, features a pulsing cadence that divides itself like cells undergoing mitosis, a hook that sounds eerily similar to the Disney classic “Somewhere out there”, and a subtext from an old role playing game Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (translated: For the Frog the Bell Tolls—a wordplay on Hemmingway’s famous novel For Whom The Bell Tolls).
Generally speaking, the song describes a town, much like the town where Los Doggies resides. There is a bell that plays the bellsong “Westminster Quarters” 12 times a day. The animals rise with the sun each morning, along with the townsfolk, as if scripted to do so, and at night they all sing themselves to sleep. Also, they sing in iambic pentameter just like in the old days. It is a simple life, herein Spring Hill.
“Spring Hill”
Herein the town that rings in Spring
With frogs that toll and snakes that sing
And in this town the bell’s peæling
And rusted sounds come croaking in
My openings emptying out
The last of sounds come tolling out
And in the house the children sleeping sound
And dream of frogs who never peep a sound
Or snakes hissing themselves to sleep
They snore a leaf and keep it up and down
And everybody that ever passes through is struck by a chord
A slow vibration that passes through each of them and leaves them wanting more
Of the broken bells banging right beneath the birds like lovers in chord
Or the frogs and snakes gathered around the sound as brightly listed in the score
Herein the town that rings in Spring
Somewhere out there the Spring’s ringing
Herein the town that rings
And sings themselves to sleep
And snores a leaf aloft
Spring Hill is ringing long
With the sound of music’s song
And e’rebody sings along
For whom the frogs hath croaked
