Week 34 – 22nd August 2014 – Lethe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_UPclMfSJI

Less literal than a lot of the 52 Fridays songs this talks about depression, coeliac disease, prescription anti-depressants, negative self-talk and the myths of Classical Civilisations, but mainly about love.

Lethe

Go find a prism that electrifies
Go find a vision that clarifies
Slam dunk a morning that disagrees
Slam shut a meaning that just aims to please
Plastic imprecision isn’t what I need
Inchoate longing intercedes
My shame, my yearning, the comic feed
Philosophies of a borrowed creed

I found a prism, he electrified
I made a prism, I would, wouldn’t I?
Pharmacology, or faulty biology
Damaged villi, I vilify. It’s not oblivion that clarifies

Instrumental

World unkind is bad policy
Self unkind is kind of atrophy
I believe in the prism
I believe there are many
But I’m saving up for the penny
We all have to pay the ferry.


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