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A Melody (Strands 1​-​3)

from Orientation EP by Mute Swimmer

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lyrics

a melody (strands 1 - 3)

this is
this is what
this is what was done
this is what’s to come

to do
to do something
to do something of use
with the rags of a melody

……………

the window
the wall
the roof
the floor
the body between

a witness
a fact
an untruth
an act
what’s in a song?

a sentence
a stop
the swing
the bop
the hip
the hop

………….

but these strands
strands of image hang around
strands trapped in the sound
a shot of where you were
in some gelatinian blur
you are not what you were
i knit strands into a cavity
it’s action is involuntary
a plume of smoke in a sunlit room
laughter in suburban gloom
a strand of lace made taut and tied
the scent of rooms you occupied
senseless strands of text
of mindless self reference
this mindless self reference
this lessnesslessness
bodies fuse, release unknot
as blood through vein does flow and clot
the spittle on the tip
strands of semen on her lips
now the candour won’t cut short
the ceasless pistons of your thought
come in tracts, tracts
intractable strands
a synapse in the brain
recalls a lovers name
the simple ways you wore it out
all in the rags of a melody
here’s one for the memories
the cadence of your breath
these tiny little deaths
each one a melody
for now and the reverie
but what’s in a song?

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from Orientation EP, released July 27, 2011

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Mute Swimmer Berlin, Germany

Mute Swimmer is the music project of interdisciplinary artist Guy Dale. Through numerous releases and a changing cast of collaborators he has been shooting his fascination with the lyrical song through ambient folk, conceptual art, performance, post rock, drone and spoken word. ... more

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