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Australia Day
03:06
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Where you gonna take me now?
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Garibaldi
05:26
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Garibaldi
Georgia Knight & Ben Salter
2021
Staring at a hook in the wall
Growing kind of bored of it all
My mouth tasting of tar
A thousand kicks and punches
A hundred gala lunches
And now we’re sitting in the car
Bloom & Brine, Spume & spine
Don’t tell your dreams to anybody
Fall away, From the inside
Now I’m floating, Now I’m free
A new face on the poetry scene
Half the class are pastoralists
The other half are local people
A damaged reputation
An elaborate fabrication
Gather all the facts
Take it to the bodily max
From my hair, To my hide
Every part of me, Is so holy
Fall away, From the inside
Now I’m floating, Now I’m free
I just want you to be happy
And I want to be happy too
Bloom & Brine, Spume & spine
Don’t tell your dreams to anybody
Fall away, From the inside
Now I’m floating, Now I’m free
From my hair, To my hide
Every part of me, Is so holy
Garibaldi united Italy
But I’m so divided
So misguided
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3. |
Open Shirt Policy
04:17
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I’ve become acutely aware
I’ve been watching myself for some time
What hidden meaning are we digging for here
Your shirt undone
The race has been run
Empty signification
I need to go on vacation
From myself
I’ve been watching myself
I’ve been watching myself
I’ve become deeply concerned
I’ll surrender myself
By and by
What giddy goal are we shooting for here
An uninhibited flow
It’s our time to go
I draw my own perverse conclusions
Labour within the arcane delusions
I’m encircled by
So self satisfied
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I got the data mining blues
Meet myself in Russia South Dakota or Ukraine
I could
Into static pool I drop
Pleasure and pleasure
I am the make model and measure
Data mining blues
Data mining blues again
Lit, lit
It’s lit
The path is lit
And I’m climbing
And I’ll wrap you up
And I’ll tuck you out of sight
ANd the salt blown grass freezes us freezes us
And I may never get out of this chair
I may never get out of this chair
Hmmm data mining blues
Will you be mined?
Will you be mined?
Will you be mined?
Well I wait a measure of victory
A grinning fool for all to see
I await your luxury your symmetry
Your destiny
Plumb the depths of us
Canary whistle from this data mine
Canary whistle from this data mine
Well I woke again with those data mining blues
Hitched myself to a matrix post
And they flayed the skin from my back
Laid out my memory to roast
And now he’s back
I guess it’s all gone now
I guess we’ll have to start again
Again and then
That kabuki lady
She drives me crazy
I‘d forgotten what that argument was even all about
I would be your little devil
You would be my cloud
That little cloud
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5. |
A World Of Calm
03:55
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I’ve entered a world of calm
I fell into the pool from the balcony
I’ve entered a world of calm
And you nearly gave the game away
I’ve entered a world of calm
Water, bringing of life
I’ve entered a world of calm
Let the sensation wash all over me
I’ve entered a world of calm
I’ve entered a world of calm
I’m sitting quite still and my eyes are unfocused
I’ve entered a world of calm
There may be calamity but I have not noticed
For I’ve entered a world of calm
I have surrendered to gravity
I fell into the pool from the balcony
I let the sensation wash over me
I’m terrified
One day I’m gonna die
Spontaneous indiscriminate alchemy
An aching abdominal cavity
A bastard behind the eyes
One day I’m gonna die
I’ve entered a world of calm
I’ve entered a world of calm
I fell into the pool from the balcony
I’ve entered a world of calm
You nearly gave the game away
I’ve entered a world of calm
Water, bringer of life
I’ve entered a world of calm
Calm, calm, calm
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6. |
Occupy The Crease
01:38
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Awake, sleeping
I fell out of my nocturnal creeping
Wait, I’ll have to get up, get up
I’ve started something
Started something
And you occupy the crease
And you terminate your lease
And we started something
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7. |
Gone, To Launceston
02:54
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Gone, To Launceston
Music & Words by Ben Salter
Gone, to Launceston, again
Get into the car and drive straight to the bar and start drinking with my boyfriends
And I had plenty to say cause
After all, it was my birthday
And I’m gone, to Launceston, again
Gone, to Launceston again
Smoking dope at the door of hope
That 50 really was a godsend
Drunk on that flamboyant beer
Getting in everybody’s ear
Cause I’m gone, to Launceston, again
Gone, to Launceston, again
I’m gorging away on a beautiful day
Unlikely to re-offend
Max has his tongue in my ear
And there is nothing to fear
Cause I’m gone to Launceston again
Gone, to Launceston, again
Gone, to Launceston, again
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8. |
Fight Song
03:17
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Are you actually doing this right now?
Is there a logic somehow?
And are you really feeling okay?
Or is it just a thing that you feel like you have to say?
Like yesterday, we were walking
And I had a feeling there was something on your mind
This is really, it’s really happening
Right now
Right now
(Fight, or don’t fight, you’re right, left, turn left, turn right)
And I can’t sit still
How do you suggest we progress?
We move forward the same old thing
This is really happening
I and I
We put our reputations on the line
Falling, falling
Gravity
I feel so heavy
I feel so heavy
Let’s go to mass
Or something like that
Fight, or don’t fight
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9. |
To Completion
04:32
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It’s a sort of
Martyr-like self negation
Coming from
A place of extreme frustration
And it’s a kind of
Curse you carry with you
And curse is the right word
I’ll just sit down for a spell
And somewhere there’s a list of authors
That I have never read
And here we go again
And you know
I should not have said that
Sometimes he makes me crazy
And I made it up the hill
And down the hill
And into bed
(and here we go again)
It’s a kind of martyr like self negation
And here we go again
And here we go again
And here we go again
You’re so wise and kind my friend
I’m in the, I’m in the sameregi - ster
I’m in the I’m in the same register
And I’m waiting
On a friend
Signposts and markers
Darker and darker
I can’t make out the words
Or is it that I can’t understand the language
Experimental
And maybe I’ve forgotten
There’s something rotten in me
You gotta run the demon out
You gotta run the demon out
Cause maybe I’d forgotten
There’s something rotten in me
And here we go again
You have to love yourself my friend
I think you have to love yourself
To completion
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10. |
Nowhere Else
04:36
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Nowhere else
On day twenty three that’s
Where I’d rather be
Nowhere else
From the side to the side
And up and down the walls
Nowhere else
On the TV
The birds and bee bees
I’m just repeating myself
No E
How the be the life of the party
1971
I’m trying to outwit this virus
You might understand or
Step around the corner
For a cheeky cheeky cheeky
Does it make you feel uncomfortable yeah?
N E
Trying to disprove the science
(of) Ultraviolence (SWAP)
Of a deft three piece
Underneath
They complete me
Harness that race driver
Flog him till he’s dead
Hang him by his head
And put a bullet in his chest
Nowhere else
Take a raincheck and a paycheque and a trainwreck and piece of
Wet
Tech
Nowhere else
Old hag old rag wet rag bad book you sook
Get around and get away get away get away
Put your hand inside the box
Burning
Burning
Swim out past the breakers
The girls on the avenue
Nowhere else
Meditating
Luxury
We’ll transgress the levels and the planes and then
Meet me back again
Crazy dreams of school friends
Crazy dreams of school friends
Nowhere else
Ziplock bags
I’m trying to outwit this virus
I asked Chris why he had not attended any of my shows
For twenty years
He seemed disappointed
I was disappointed
Heh heahhh
Nowheeeeere else
I realised it was a stupid question
ANd it was time to stop
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Incorruptible souvenir
What brought you here
There’ll be snow on the mountain tomorrow
You go, I’ll stay but I’ll follow
Everybody wants a brilliant trajectory
But I just want you to be straight with me
I like it when the middle order is exposed
That’s the bastard in me I suppose
Oooh I’m a sacral architect
And you’re a complex devotional object
Shine on the glass Fading fast
Into the shallow decline
Of the perfect time
(and the perfect space)
Resisting the pace
Lying flat on your face
Nervous system collapsing
I’m relapsing, relapsing
Oooh I’m a sacral architect
And you’re a complex devotional object
Well I fall to my knees and I genuflect
You’re such a complex devotional object
There’s no stain on the glass
And I’m falling fast
And there’s no mark on the wall
And you were never here at all
Incorruptible souvenir
What brought you here
There’ll be snow on the mountain tomorrow
Everybody wants a brilliant trajectory
But I just want you to be straight with me
I like it when the middle order is exposed
That’s the bastard in me I suppose
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12. |
The Wonder Years
03:57
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13. |
Get In The Pool
02:39
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Ben Salter TAS, Australia
Ben Salter is multi-disciplinary bullshit artist based in lutruwita.
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