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Through Monolithic Lines

from Regiments by The Contortionist and The Wandering Boy Poets

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And while we're passing time to sit and waste away
I'll say I have no time to waste
Setting my movements by the coldness of the clocks
Pressing on it unison through these protruding lines

Was I dreaming or have I false memories of some past personal time?

Numbers and numbers, synapses firing
Hours of empty, idle emergencies
Pen onto paper, ink into vacant eyes
Marching to progress through monolithic lines
That reach across the sky
Carving echoes in our eyes.

Pressing on through tired streets
That sigh under the weight of the angles and numbers
Of which we speak in unison
Of the songs about which we talk only of their function

And then these mistakes have no precedent
Only progress creating them.

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from Regiments, released December 1, 2008

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The Contortionist London, UK

The Contortionist is me, Andy Hirst; usually alone, but sometimes with friends. We even had a proper band for a while (The Contortionist and The Wandering Boy Poets).

I've been in a load of bands over the years playing various things: drums in Nixon, The Broken Chairs, and The Purgatory Players, guitar in Situationists, guitar/keys/vocals in Japanese Sleepers and Fall Forwards.
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