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ALL ECHO
02:02
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COLD CATCHES THE BACK OF YR NECK - makes you stagger, with lips turning icy blue - numbing fingers, on so early a morning, shuffling yr feet - hands buried in pockets for warmth and comfort . and yr agitated / fed-up with familiar walls towering ... emptily gazing to and fro, enclosing : you might well say that they just reflect me … be that as it may, i've just got to run from the multiple me .
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LINES OF FLAME
02:41
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WHEN YR CAUGHT I feel a creeping urge to try and untangle you and all yr delicate thought ... a kind of yearning to shed a little light on all yr shadowy fumbling . you look helpless when yr caught … lines of fire playing on yr face, you speak silence - as if there’s nothing to say … but, I cannot believe you - words call from yr every pore .
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YOU, SO OPEN
02:25
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SEE HOW WATER TRACKS ON YOUR FRAGILE FACE - i read you just like a book you're so open, so delicate . i can't trace your logic . suddenly you're closing in on yourself - see how water tracks your face . you seem to carry memory with you everywhere … always walking so humbly in someone else's shadow . what is it with you that holds you there - strapped back with a sinking sorrow stuck to yr back like there’s no tomorrow ... closing in on yrself .
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THE SUN-LIKE-GOLD
03:39
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. ONCE upon a time ... not so long ago ... there was a girl with long golden hair . when she was a very little girl, she used to have golden skin & golden eyes & golden mouth, golden lips ... she had golden feet & golden fingernails ... and a very golden heart . the gold was such that when it shone in the sun it was like a lizard's skin as it hops from rock to rock ... from plant to plant, changing colour. It was black gold, and blue gold , and green gold, and red gold and white gold ... sky gold and sea gold ...wind gold ... sun gold. But one day she looked in a pond and saw her reflection there ... and said ... "I am the most beautiful person on the whole world" ... whereupon, an angel who was watching over her burst and died - and that was the girl's soul ... and if you have no soul, you're not gold anymore . All that is left of her now is her golden hair ... which shines in the sun ... like the sun.
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MYTHIC LANGUAGE
02:42
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. THERE YOU GO IN ANGER, in outbursts, fits of temper ... inventing mythic reasons, speaking off the top of your head . you may think that you mean it, but tomorrow you'll be different - talking in a different language, you won’t mention this . and really, i don’t mind - after all, its better than building something from nothing (don’t make something out of nothing!) … ah really, i don’t mind ’cause simply its better than inventing mythic enemies ... and after all, yr only letting yourself grow .
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ALMS HOUSES
05:21
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. TOWERING, shapes of yesteryear heightenings ... small then, with everything to be, to be like an unfolding, a beauteous unravelling sweetness, dear for you .... and, always and ... Lilly and strange sisters ... my beautiful strangeness and they, strangers ... and all feeling ... and all loving ... and all open, all eyes for you, beneath the towers and spires, to me then, kissedblessed beneath sunday holy and patterned skies ...
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OLD HOURS, SLOW DAYBREAK
03:30
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. LET the hours grow into daybreak, slowly - a music that i don’t know is happening in me . as fast as daybreak goes into a radiant glow of a morning still forming – that’s how i want to grow - fast and quiet - gentle and slow - so that i can't know what's happening in me .
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THREE NIGHTS RUNNING
01:43
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THREE NIGHTS running, burning/do not hate me- hit me/what wrong have we done, you & I?/you tighten, taunt me ... hanging a head between my spine and swollen side/shall we beginthi life, you & I? ...
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Martyn Bates : e-guitars . organ .
Peter Becker : tape manipulation . organ . wasp .
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WE SHADE OUR EYES
01:20
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WE SHADE OUR EYES/ I do/you do/mouths in & out, singing/church bells awake, awake!/echoes & noises - spoons on the table/dishcrashes, shatters .
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QUIET LUSTRE
03:11
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ONLY A TRICKLING SENSE of acknowledgement that feeds this quite lustre - slow forming memories that always talk to me when i first awaken, morning filling the room, warming me . these times always appear slightly unreal to me … as if I cannot trust any part of me to something I can’t see or hear or even feel, and simply just pause – surrendering .
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PRAYERBOOK TO THE QUIET
02:10
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. THERE IS ONLY ONE THING you want to say … and ringing in me i hear it always - its all i want - i need that failsafe kiss to my lips and my heart . don’t ever lose this longing, this wide-open fragile sense of soaring, this simple love - i'm imploring you to be quiet to my heart . no lines ever running from my sight - no, never one running from the bright and the open places where i know it is real to my heart .
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SECOND MUSIC
01:39
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. AIR IS OPEN - feet fly the rhythm of the wind, shooting to the marrow - the wind shooting into bones shaking, making me step to the tune that I already know, oh so happy/oh so sad so familiar to me that i know it fits me like a second nature .
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SEE THE DARK POOLS FLASH
01:55
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. DARK POOLS FLASH, calling out to me . on so new a morning smiling sulkily wind runs over senses ... cold air cuts clear right thru to sorrow, imploring it to disappear . call out cracking the air with voices, talking and flowing - jumping then pausing … looking up to heaven, wringing yr hands - feeling fit to burst, right where you stand .
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THE RAINDREAMING SHIP
04:39
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. YR FRAILTY STANDS ALL ALONE, and shows so naked ... deep sorrow runs in yr bones like a flood of tears ... ebbing at you, ebbing at all the years, and only sorrow holds you like this now – can’t find yr way out of this hurt, these useless ties of doubt, these ties that keep you bound ?
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SONGS OF COMING WINTER
05:58
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" IT SEEMS A SHAME " the Walrus said " to play them such a trick....after we've made them walk so far, and made them walk so quick..."........
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AUTUMN MIXES ITS COLOURS
03:17
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. IMPROVISATION C, POEMS, the gypsy dance, the orange ice and wax crayons ... first eyes I-spy, my favourite love, in antipathy whisper, for want ... wearing the new .
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... MAN'S LIFE I FALL IN sickness and in misery ... my wrists seem broken and my heart seems dead and strength is gone, and my life
is only the leavings of a life:
and still, among it all, ... new strange flowers such as my life has not brought forth before ...unknown God,
he is breaking me down to his own oblivion
to send me forth on a new ...
if only, if only it carry me ...If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift!
If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed what is the knocking? ... what is the knocking? what is the knocking at the door of the night? (excerpts/cut-ups of two D.H Lawrence poems - SHADOWS, and SONG OF A MAN WHO HAS COME THROUGH) .
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Eyeless In Gaza UK
For CD versions write eyeless@eyelessingaza.com
SEE ALSO martynbates.bandcamp.com
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