VANISH’D IS THE FEVERISH DREAM OF LIFE.
THE RICH AND POOR FIND NO DISTINCTION HERE,
THE GREAT AND LOWLY END THEIR CARE AND STRIFE,
THE WELL BELOVED MAY HAVE AFFECTIONS TEAR.
BUT AT THE LAST, THE OPPRESSOR AND THE SLAVE
SHALL EQUAL STAND BEFORE THE BAR OF GOD;
OF HIM, WHO LIFE, AND HOPE, AND FREEDOM GAVE,
TO ALL THAT THRO’ THIS VALE OF TEARS HAVE TROD.
LET NONE THEN MURMUR ‘GAINST THE WISE DECREE,
THAT OPEN’D THE DOOR, AND SET THE CAPTIVE FREE.
Epitaph to Samuel Holberry. Chartist.
lyrics
Turn on, tune in, drop out.
Pick up, log in, switch off.
When you wake up, eventually,
Whats right and proper will sort of suggest itself.
You hope.
When you wake up things will become clearer, audible.
Like the glitching sound in the next room,
And the next room,
And the next room.
You hope.
In the liminal spaces.
In the no place - displaced.
One above one below
Us and them, us or them.
In the in-between places.
And the weight of decay.
One above one below
You and me, you or me.
To punch up or punch down?
Where the air is sucked out
Of the screaming silence.
In the next room, and the next room,
And the next room and the next room.
credits
from THE WINNER; CITY OF LAUGHTER CITY OF TEARS.,
track released October 14, 2019
All instrumentation, vocals, samples, field recordings, original composition and Lo-Fi mixes; Stephen Carley at Ribcage Studio, Sheffield, June / July 2019.
Vocals recorded by Patrick Carley at Ribcage Studio October 2019.
Mastered by Adam Zejma at TyeDie Tapes, Sheffield, October 2019.
Thanks to Chris Baty at Op-Tronica.
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