Intro

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

-Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Hollow Men

Featuring songs from The Buzzcocks and The Clash, a subtle tribute to the significance of the events on that Tuesday morning ten years ago today.  With some association, a narrative might be divined. None was intended. Concludes with Music For Airports.

V.

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear

At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act

Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion

And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm

Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.


Track, Name, Artist, Album
1, Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man
2, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain, Sparklehorse, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
3, Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've), Buzzcocks, Love Bites
4, Atomic Garden, Bad Religion, Generator
5, I'm So Bored With The U.S.A., The Clash, The Clash (U.K.)
6, Manière de parler, Daniel Bélanger, L'échec du matériel
7, Shiva, The Antlers, Hospice
8, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division, Substance
9, High and Dry, Radiohead, The Bends
10, An Appeal to St. Peter, Pale Young Gentlemen, Pale Young Gentlemen
11, Float On, Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News
12, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
13, Karma Police, Radiohead, OK Computer
14, Dilaudid, The Mountain Goats, Dilaudid
15, Dirty Old Town, The Pogues, Rum Sodomy & the Lash
16, Homeward Bound, Simon & Garfunkel, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
17, Burma Shave, Tom Waits, Bounced Checks
18, The Hollow Men for Trumpet and Strings,  Op. 25, T.S. Eliot & Vincent Persichetti, The Estamos Unidos Project
19, 1/1, Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports
20, 2/1, Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Lyrics to come:

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