“Telescope” is the lead single from the deluxe edition of the collaborative album Ill Times by Pond member Jay Watson, aka GUM, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard member Ambrose Kenny-Smith. It was released on 28 January 2025.
[Verse 1: Ambrose Kenny-Smith]
Step right up, step right up
The embers of flesh fly vermillion
I'm like a Jack in a Box, a frog in a sock
Yelling cooees from my mountaintop
Stop, wait a minute
What's with this vehement inconvenience?
Sticking out his chest like a pufferfish peacock
Missing a few ingredients
What's in the middle of your atom bomb?
Are you more Pluto or uranium?
Or is he just a nuclear person?
Ulterior motive, a still searching
His mother cried, "Lord, have mercy"
Called him crazy, cuckoo, cuckoo
Yet we still wonder, will he die up on his hill
Like a chicken in a coop? Woohoo, woohoo
[Chorus: Ambrose Kenny-Smith]
Got you in my telescope, baby (Telescope, telescope)
No ifs and buts or maybes (Telescope, telescope)
Got you in my telescope, baby (Telescope, telescope)
What's the use in acting shady? (Telescope, telescope)
[Verse 2: Ambrose Kenny-Smith]
Kindred spirits float figure eight in the night, ambulance sirens
The city's buildings bounce a beam of blinding light
Star signs ain't aligning
Marvel in the ways you once were in your glory days
Shadow boxing, bodies dropping
Stove top cooking up bad toxins
You went from a businessman
To a meth den, what the hell happened?
Had it all in the fall, by winter you couldn't crawl
[Chorus: Ambrose Kenny-Smith]
I got you in my telescope (Telescope, telescope)
Sailing all around
I got you in my telescope (Telescope, telescope)
Sailing all around
I got you in my telescope (Telescope, telescope)
Sailing all around
I got you in my telescope (Telescope, telescope)
Sailing all around
[Outro: Ambrose Kenny-Smith]
(Telescope, telescope)
(Telescope, telescope)
Telescope was written by Jay Watson & Ambrose Kenny-Smith.
Telescope was produced by Jay Watson & Ambrose Kenny-Smith.
Jay Watson:
“Telescope"started out as not much more than a percussion-heavy groove, including my studio table leg as a cowbell, and a helium-pitched vocal harmony, and ended up as one of my favourite songs we’ve done together, sort of soul and rock and orchestral soundtrack music all together. I wa...