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'z' {The Nada Song}
04:49
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danzig.
june 3rd.
rainy saturday.
i think i glimpsed him in a sidewalk cafe
ordering cheese and bread and strong coffee
reading old echoes, taking shade.
i saw him take a pristine handkerchief
the one that mom embroidered 'z'
dab the froth from his wild moustache
then tuck it back against his breast
perhaps a song for this dead dreamer
maybe a wish to have not been born
test mannequins around my father
to share his stories from the war.
undress me
in haze of swelling rape-fields
should have told me you loved me while you could
strung poppy-chains for long-lost daughters
finger-painted me
in
moon-drawn blood.
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Bunny Girl
06:17
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dusk builds
night shift
park the car for
more of this
...check my face
security pass
6:08
i'll cross the grass
...to reception
passcode
thumbprint
recognition
trust builds
short shrift
mark the cards for
those on my list
i hesitate
say a prayer
check my post
expect the worst
...turning the ignition
as a child i dreamt of healing
labcoat thrills
kill that feeling.
automated latte
don't eat much
twenty minutes break
i'll just retouch
in the ladies mirror
lips dressed red
for the sidelong glance of the
department head
probably wasn't smart enough
to make it through pre-med
"a chronically ambitious girl"
as mother always said
now
29 is failing
wonder why that is
nothing in the bloodsteam
a flawed analysis?
29 is twitching
making tiny cries
but her bunny lips are pretty
and that blue brings out her eyes
hometime
dawn breaks
kool aid in styrofoam
to eat away my face
29 is dreaming...
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the blue scrawl
reminds you where you’ve been;
of broken legs and broken bonds
and evil that’s in men.
the blues crawl
underneath the skin
a history of punishment
a litany of pain.
now you’re back up on the Manor
after ten years on the ghost train.
to sawbones
you’re just a bag of meat.
their latex covered fingers prod
the signs they cannot read.
in strangeways
you’d sterilise a pin
and let the blood run down
and smear the ink in.
this spiders web,
this handless clock,
ACAB,
these five blue dots.
blue stains expose
this betrayal
node by node
and flesh-fed
it grows.
"when you're least on guard
i steal into your heart, to
keep you safe from harm, i
ooze through inky dark
it's time,
at last, for calm
to
sooth the savage heart..."
the blue scrawl
protest by the dirt
scratch away the yesterdays
the hieroglyphic curse
chokey choking up your system
choking back the hurt
blue stains expose
this betrayal
node by node
and flesh-fed
it grows.
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LYRICS:
i'm a beater of headboards
evener of old scores
Johnny got nothing on me
looking down, he plays no part
blessed by god
i'm
king of the tarts
from jizzmop @ the pay-to-view
to m-m-mumbling lines
to be ignored by you
couch your cast
for huge bit-parts
play that funky white boy
shoot that whitey funk, boy
for
the king of the tarts
johnny, don't lose that smile
you're up in heaven now
johnny, don't touch that dial
johnny, don't lose that smile
walking on air
i'm the king of the world
the last enormous dancing bear
johnny had the last laugh after all
we're into the red,
way off the charts
all hail
the king of the tarts.
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7. |
His Side
05:20
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she tends him well
he feels something for her.
unspeakable
the love he daren’t show.
from his chair
he watches.
nothing more.
he feels for her.
the sunlight filters through the slats of the blinds
he loves the way it plays along her arms
he loves the way she moves about the room.
she doesn’t know he has his young man thoughts
she doesn’t know she tortures him
just by being
she kissed him once
as though she was his daughter.
being denied only makes him want her more
she is his youth/he needs to relive once more.
back then they laughed
slapped his back
he was only sowing wild oats.
so what is changed in him?
for society to call
dirtyoldman.
and in the end
how would it seem to you?
if being old is being incomplete.
at night
he cries
but no-one sees…
his side.
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so they lead me to the room
tell me my name is mud
i have to stay here
but i want to go back
i want it all to stop.
cold.
cold, monroe wall.
i'm here, i'm there, i'm torn.
chocolate for our rose, and
in the black pop light
they hold my hand
mouth prayers
i shouldn't know.
they're the vampyre
holding the time-line
blood murmur'd half-moons, now
they don't touch me
they are done with me, through
gathering night-song
i love you.
still.
realisation
the warm descent into stillness.
ancient hands reaching from the past
ghosts
levelled by concrete
i guess i'm
home.
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9. |
Celebration of Wounds
08:00
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in a vacuum of silence
where we coupled to perfection
unbroken
the skingraft between us
crossed the white-line
to deformity
the blur of asphalt
moving closer
as always.
in celebration
of wounds.
cars in collision
cages in motion
moving along invisible trajectories.
line from A to B
at a tangent from the bend
the flightpath
of the
cinderella slipper.
in celebration
of wounds.
news broke on the radio (celebration)
panic in the motorcade (celebration)
love hate blood cum
an emblem on the dash (celebration)
impaled and crowned with thorns
saw my face in the rearview.
(celebration)
then, we're flailing in mid-air
all of this has been planned
caught halfway
between
hollywood and babel
locked in sex+flesh+metal
i hound you to the tunnel
through a cracked lens
the moment of impact.
f-f-fingers f-f-fumble at the doorcatch
punching out the glitter glass.
outrage
like the blood
upon the face
of a
child.
and, i felt something strange
as i clambered from the wreckage
the wreckage
of
you.
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10. |
Fogtrucker
06:12
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Glen: "This features what is undoubtedly my favourite guitar playing in years; rain slick motorways, emergency services, garbled cb radios, airbrakes...it's Ballardian psycho blues. I was laughing in glee at the end of the take."
LYRICS:
i dream, awake,
through sodium night
pissing in sodden lay-bys
sometimes
i wait for signals
dally for signs
sometimes
i hate myself
inside
urging diesel power
along these lines
flashing spokes
on left hand side
stopping distance at fifty five?
we collide.
tacho taking all this down
the flash of fear
the crunching sound.
engine idling
much too loud
walk back
over old ground
it's all on camera,
you just there,
the pieces of your
fetish chair.
the divot of your
matted hair.
i despair
as i cradled your head
there was something you said
under your breath.
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LYRICS:
from a distance i watched. i was born.
yet unformed of the devil tree.
i live
...a black guitar
i can perpetuate your youth.
i will show you love.
just touch my strings.
play me, jim
a black guitar
let the feedback rage
in the quiet of your room
it’s part of you now
the darkness of you
in the shape
of
a strat.
yeah, a black guitar.
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13. |
Dead Riff
06:45
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the dead riff
sparks off life
a burning room
somewhere
in
the high-rise.
black cell
random targets
random shots in the crowd.
lost chords
his red square.
voices right outside my door
nearly time
to take the short walk
to
the
guillotine of whores.
piped jazz riffs
from the green room
so near, yet
thankfully so far.
the distance,
you put between us, and
the dead riffs.
the dead riffs.
on the ward, they fossilise
the dead ash eddies outside these doors.
in the war, they drop like flies
see how best friends die
on the monitors.
the passage
fade to x-ray
the exit always seems so far away
don't eat much in the coffee shop
it all just tastes, of
rockland dust.
circling.
dead riffs
circling.
always circling.
it's a crime
to steal such time
god's got no right to play god?
sing me a song
one last song.
dead riffs play
the final tail
of DNA.
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i think it's october
but i can't be sure
the days are much greyer
than those gone before.
god never spoke
told no stories at all
soon all the trees in the world
will fall.
i created my ghosts
from drinking the rain
i choke back the tears, but
they come all the same.
through gauze, the world seeps
in colour and bloom
load that last shell
i had saved
just for you.
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15. |
Black Midi, Black Rain
00:59
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