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Charboy In The Cinders

from The Quiet Earth by The Academy Of Sun

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Charboy In The Cinders

I met a dying artist by the yellow-reeded river
The clouds were stiff as bruises and the moon a prickling sliver
He muttered as the air got swallowed by the night “it’s frightening -
But a painting only is complete
When it’s been struck by lightning.”

“The past it seems so long ago
The present is too strong a woe
The future it is wrong to know
So burn them all.”

And dowsing down the silver grove
A charboy in the cinders -
Wanking, wailing ‘I adore you’,
Waving sticky, tiny hands
The scent of mandragora and the filth all on his fingers,
And his kerosene squeal peeling out amongst the embers
And the tiny stain that lingers is
An agonising cry across the land.

Suddenly I have no religion -
I am the latest version,
Waiting for the first incision
From a brand new, loving surgeon.
Cut me up, tie me down, tie me off.

The suspect resists rapture,
Screaming ‘Boy, I’m going nowhere’
Screaming ‘boy I’m going nowhere, and I hope to get there soon’.

He’s a very skilful actor
Nowhere quickly, nowhere soon
Amidst the crying and the laughter
Nowhere quickly, nowhere soon,
Between the rabbit and the raptor,
Nowhere quickly, nowhere soon.
Between the captive and his captor
Nowhere quickly, nowhere soon.
Between the shafted and the shafter
Nowhere quickly, nowhere soon.

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from The Quiet Earth, released June 19, 2020

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Nick Hudson Tbilisi, Georgia

Nick Hudson is a UK-born, Tbilisi-based composer/artist/image-maker/activist..

In April 2021 Nick released his first solo album in five years - Font Of Human Fractures - to glowing reviews from The Quietus and Libération.

"There isn’t really anyone making music like Nick Hudson” - The Quietus

“Genius” - BBC Introducing

“Scott Walker channeling Coil” - Mojo

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