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    The album comes with a beautifully packaged book of poetry. The words on the page are satisfying enough, unlike most rock lyrics, but benefit from accompaniment. ... Like any collection of poetry, you can dip in and out, but listening to the story unfold is the way to do it. This is definitely not, as they might say in Star Trek, rock & roll as we know it. It will adjust your set. TOBY CRESWELL

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I believe one of the functions of poetry/music  is the suspension of time. Robert Graves goes into this in some depth in his book "the white goddess". He expounds a theory of proleptic & analeptic thought, when one arrives at the answer to some riddle or problem without understanding or being conscious of quite how you got there. It is a feature of some poets work, but has been know to occur in those eureka moments of scientists and mathematicians too.  Over the years I've jotted down a number of apparently nonsense rhymes only to see their close parallels appear in reality at a later date. 
"what I write it will come true, you best be careful I don't write of you".

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Do you ever eat too fast?
I do, love’s like that
In the city, summertime
your heart goes out naive 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’re washed in each other’s blood.

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
have to fight, there’s no room for greed

Without money, you’ve got faith
think once and get it right
It’s OK, we’re all possessed
ideas and dead mythology

Don’t despair
people united under hope
This stuff we spill
is just the living breath of earth

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from Then, and Then: a memoir, released June 1, 2020
© Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes, Produced by Geoffrey Datson, Recorded and mixed at Greenroom Studio Cooroy.

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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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