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And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

london psychogeographical association?

You get a shiver in the dark
It's raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel all right when you hear that music ring

Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
But the horns, they blowing that sound
Way on down south
Way on down south in London town^*

[...]

*: I looked this up after listening to the Kiosk version of "Green
Grass", which is to Tom Waits what "Sultans of Swing" is to swing (as
I remarked on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlv_KejUI_k#t=1m6s); anyway, it seems
like the two songs use a similar metre. I like the spooky original
addition to the cover by Kiosk frontman Arash Sobhani:

The grass grows by every stream
Like smiles faintly gleam
step gently cause it not to scream
For it has grown from a lover's dream

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