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PROTEST SINGER

by DATSON

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1.
Planet 02:54
Do you ever eat too fast I do Love's like that In the city in the summertime Your heart goes out naieve and cool Are you angry and afraid I can confess to that Do you look at the mess we've made Hope to ever learn from it Don't despair people united under hope Helping hand emotions mute We are washed in each other's blood Now it's not wrong to pray for those things that your brothers and sisters might need but if they take too much you're going to a\have to fight there's no room for gree Without money you got faith think once and get it right It's OK we're all possessed of ideas and dead mythologies DOn't despair people united under ope this stuff we spill is just the living breath of earth This stuff we spill
2.
Let the sun go down on your last regret Forty years wrong on a barbed wire fence Feeling it over, pack up your books and clothes Back up the car, you took the wrong road Easy forgiven, empty the whispering wire I watched you two burn Beat into ploughshares the hammer and sickle of song Get out of town you don’t belong Swearing that day from deep in your heart as they made you, so you’re a part of them Try not believing when you’re leaving, it’s the wrong time You might change their hearts, but never their minds I know, mistaken as I often am with plenty of time and too many plans Let the sun go down on your last regret Forty years wrong on a barbed wire fence Feeling it over, pack up your books and clothes Back up the car you took the wrong road
3.
Shelf Life 02:35
beauty insists on sharing at my door radiation finger hollow with the habit who designs the playing of circumstantial living this event or other sister soldier mother if it is like painting then focus off the surface so singing out of tune might sound better from a distance olympic youth carreering kick dancing of an evening celebrated groining of love longing or just loining supple is the secret of bushel or of bucket I cannot draw the nose but I sure know how to blow it expectation grating blips and beeps gyrating all of our tomorrows by plastic cards and marrow get some kind of ticket for stopping by the roadside spectre of a journey like goths in joyous hayride Breughel was a builder developer of usage beliefs belie belonging sing a song shallonging Even when you're falling lie sleeping on my sofa Beatles just got squashed by Beethoven who rolled over Children come to parties I want their wild abandon Daughter of our leader her dad torpedoed dollar at the seat of arcane knowledge you will find no sign of scholar Alchemy and agro fertilise the garden Bbabylon is hanging for the people it imprisons by past and pith and reason your silence is a treason I say I love you dearly won't you please crawl out my window.
4.
Hittites 02:07
Here come the Hittites Riding winged panthers behind the hill above the tree line It doesn't look good for our salvation asses and goats their main agenda I get their message, it's in Cuniform with hieroglyphic footnotes It said, "Start walking, We got your daughter she is with us now". Better try and bury it all that evidence Beads and pots made for archeologists masking a network of telepathic mindscapes If they love us with their animals will the gods be inclined to punish Out on the trade routes Abandoned zigurats civilisation contracting like amoeba dipped into acid, sudden mood reversal Their advantage, they got teachers men with beards and a coming back guaranteed.
5.
I'm the co-dependent cow-deependent cowboy caught rustling in your culture I branded it with star and stripes to doubly insult ya If I had a history you might get where I'm coming from Buffalo soldier from the bedrock odeon we got techno line dancing before campfire blanket bombing without injuns to be fighting we'd be left holding nothing but a banjo gun portfolio from sea to shining sea I'm the co-dependent cowboy you can deep end on me.
6.
Y2K Buggin' 04:18
I saw Marx and Engels riding in a rodeo Power to the people going to the Easter show The President has bombed the Serbs and come back from a bitter blow Slobidan, well he should know Seismic fall or aliens abducted or just born again The Ozone layer holed up there block it up, bring back big hair Oh baby you and me let's get out of the 20th century I got the key to the door and I've never been 21 before Thanks to the academy the nimrod and the ABC Ren and scientology, I'd let Harvey cum on me El Nino's gone its rained all day I killed the 2K bug with spray Success has stole my velvet scooter smoke coming from my computer Haven't worked a week in days it's hard enough just to get paid Got contractual obligations writer for united nations Specialise in history make it rhyme like poetry The Dali Lama left tibet Moved into the TAB Oh baby I can see your over the 20th century I got the key to the door and we've never been 21 before Che and Fergie and the Poe Diana's back she blamed the dope The Lady of Shallot it seems has ploughed up fields and put in beans The Amazon she's half on fire the unburnt part you still could buy Met a girl on internet she heeled my dog she ain't no vet The wife's returned the truck is fixed fate has thrown a double six One more bed a silk pyjama one more drink there will be drama Pernod and ice, that'd be nice Come with me, into the next century As a man who writes the past I like to dabble in the arts Sing a song, see some film I feel quite well I've taken pills I know my case is much maligned you can't sue me I just resigned I saw Marx and Engels riding in a rodeo Power to the people going to the Easter show What I write it will come true You best be careful I don't write of you Liar liar pants on tighter Pinocchio and Pinochet waiting there at Heaven's gate the guest list says just plus one Billy-jean that chair is not my son Y2K Bugging
7.
Ruin House 04:06
Terrorism as a subject Will make its entire phenomenological spectrum resonate within each of us By the ruin house all the ocean is tears we are forgiven one by one that's what its all about Its got to be its got to be Its got to be its got to be Its got to be its got to be that's what its all about "Quoted reading" Once I needed just a small amount of money build that rock solid wall around me but where I'm coming from there's too much lost Its got to be its got to be Its got to be its got to be Its got to be its got to be that's what its all about By the ruin house all the ocean is tears we are forgiven one by one that's what its all about
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Spawn 02:42
How do you do I follow you but you follow too what'll we do with a drunken neighbour Cover him up and come back much later I got a video that's about god not the one that Moses had though maybe he'll come to If we take off his shoes sailor sailor blown away coming back somehow some day why are all the people fighting what's he doing in my garden I guess I never knew him he worked as Ceaser's Pizza Dream the little things we never see Frozen in eternity The spawn of God crashed in my yard the guy form next door martyred I follow you, but you follow too I follow you, but you follow too
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Spoken Word found audio Churchill speech

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released June 16, 2019

Composer/Producer Geoffrey Datson

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GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more

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