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Locked Without March

from The Marion Flow (Taranaki, 1999) by fiffdimension

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Shall I water myself down for mass consumption? Is the message now earnest & clear?
Am I walking on the side of my creation? Am I just standing in the rain?
Did the nobleman's bride cause me to go down unlocked so I mocked the sun?
Were the bells not raining on the no-man's-band sitting proud to the beat of the song?

Send a child's comedy from the overturned slumber to feign at the starry-eyed bull
And to knock down the roads for the wheel of progress to trample on in its spin
"I'm no secretary for the barrel-necked people" I was raging to myself,
"Seek comfort from friends, inspiration from enemies, in the pantomime you chose

Let abrasion now come overrun all the shelters, cry an end to your troubles beware
In an effervescent splint for the dreadlocked outlaw, one hand on autumn and shame
Beekeepers dance in digestive shelter, at midnight out comes the moon
It all falls down into powers that crumble, stillborn air digesting them soon

A wordless accusation in the eyes of one another, too jackal-cowed to flip the night
No simple rules in the simpletons' showdown carving annals to win & destroy

As the loner is prey to loneliness, so must the crowd feed off itself
And to thin regard go the overworked horses who make theatre to smile
And the beat of the song makes the hour twice as long til the sounds cuts and hurts my face
To vomit on the floor's not what I'm here for, oh the good times get me down

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from The Marion Flow (Taranaki, 1999), track released June 22, 1999

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fiffdimension Featherston, New Zealand

Outsider music from Aotearoa NZ and beyond, by Dave Edwards and collaborators (from 1856 to 2024).

Spans acoustic & electric noise, rock, folk, spoken word, postpunk, free jazz, gamelan, lo fi, electronica, & ethnomusicology.

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