Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Linda Ronstadt
Canonical path: /linda-ronstadt/the-cicada
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Cicada
Read The Cicada lyrics by Linda Ronstadt on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Cicada
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Don't sing to me anymore, cicada
Let your singsong end
For your song, here in the soul
Stabs me like a dagger
Knowing that when you sing
You are proclaiming that you are
going to your death
Sailor, sailor
Tell me if it is true that you know
Because I cannot distinguish
If in the depth of the seas
There is another color blacker
Than the color of my sorrows.
A little dove upon flying
Bearing a wounded breast
Was about to cry
And told me very afflicted
I'm tired of searching for
A mutual love.
Under the shade of a tree
And to the beat of my guitar
I sing this "huapango" happily
Because my life is ending
And I want to die singing
Like the cicada dies.
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Linda Ronstadt performs "The Cicada", and this lyric page sits inside the Linda Ronstadt catalog on LyroVerse.
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