extinction, by extinction of animals

extinction

by extinction of animals

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1.	this country is a desert 07:38	lyrics	buy track
This country is a desert. The sky so bright it's like an explosion, the air so hot it's like a fog. The streets wilt and bend and dogs seek the shade and nothing grows. Nothing ever grows. Seeds planted by kids and swivel eyed idealists shrivel in infertile seeming earth and ideas are cut down before they can burst and shriek into the wind but the land is rich. The land is so rich. Potential lurks and lingers and resists the herbicides and pesticides, the withering glances and the callous indifference and waits for the rains. It waits for the storms. And the storms, eventually, always come. And nothing, and no one can stand against them. No wealth will protect you, no privilege will elevate you and no birthright will hold your head above the waves. But the earth, like it always has, will sip and swallow and swell and with a long fecund eruption will torrent and spew until it's empty. The seeds will burst and root and there will be blooms. The desert will glow and you will be sorry.
2.	Life In A Police State (a taste provided with all the courtesy of a western country, paranoid and deluded) 10:46	lyrics	buy track
Life In A Police State (a taste provided with all the courtesy of a western country, paranoid and deluded) i cannot imagine the sound of helicopters day and night like a grey fog humming reminding “this is not your city.” “you have no control.” “ yes you live and struggle and love and die. but you do it because i allow it. you do it at my whim. do not enrage me. do not taunt me. do not mock me. or i will swoop down and destroy you.” “i can vanish those that you love.” “i can make them scream for hours.” “i can erase them from their bodies, never to return.” “just go about your business.” “but never forget." and the helicopters like huge, angry birds soar and are never still
3.	and the curlews screamed 06:39	lyrics	buy track
and the curlews screamed because the storm was leaving and there would be a space that would be hard to fill and the air was cold and my skin was alive your howls echoing through my neighbourhood as old ladies came to their front door and idiot boys stepped up like heroes encouraged by your simpering and titillated by your need and you continued your frenzied dance and the curlews cried and where i would have imagined the air would rush in with a mighty clap and stun and spifflicate and terrorise instead there was a sigh and a slow deliquescing and the curlews bawled and you were gone
4.	i am a warrior poet 07:19	lyrics	buy track
i am a warrior poet i create beauty as i slay i slay ignorance, calumny and excess my art will make you weep i am strong and gentle i am violent and beautiful i am a warrior poet i will realise this more than anything else in my universe i desire this more than sex, than companionship, than food or water. i am desire i am lust i am terrible and tall astride the land i am a giant above the sky i am a planet beyond all reason i am a god i am a warrior poet

about

spoken word/improv.
recorded live on the 15th of february 2015.
no editing.
thankyou for listening.
words by seamus kirkpatrick music by tom robb and seamus kirkpatrick

credits

released February 15, 2015

voice and guitar - seamus kirkpatrick
special guest - drums - tom robb
recorded and mixed and photograph by seamus kirkpatrick