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First released in limited edition CD on Stickylabel in 2010
Digital Rerelease 2019 Art Records 2019

lyrics

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.

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from PROTEST SINGER, released June 16, 2019
Composer/Producer Geoffrey Datson
Lyrics/Vocals Geoffrey Datson

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DATSON Australia

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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