The sky lies torn in pieces on the carpet at my knees
Between the tangled branches of an avenue of trees
The vivisected torso of a lady all in red
By half her patterned stockings and a quarter of her head
A painting by Picasso yet more thorough in distortion
I'm faced now with a clean-up job of Dresden-esque proportions
An azure pile
Of orphaned tiles
A well-placed reminder that I
Try to avoid
These nubs and voids
And five hundred pieces of sky
The scene unfolds before my eyes in adventitious order
Between the light cerulean and concrete of the border
Like all his fallen brothers, yet another scrap advances
And fights to find a home among the the shreds of floating branches
I damn the hand of logic as the piece falls into place
A maiden with a softwood arm and shingle for her face
A sadistic joke
I twist and poke
And painfully ask myself 'Why?'
Aye, there's the rub
The voids and nubs
And five hundred pieces of sky
BRIDGE
I've tried every shard of sky six times at least
Rotated them through all three-sixty degrees
Arranged them by shade in a gradient spectrum
And now they'll be shoved up Thos Holdson's fat... nose.
The rain assaults
My window-bolts
But inside, it's long since run dry
My will to snub
The voids and nubs
And five hundred pieces of sky
A fatal shock!
The final lock
Betrays a missing link
With face serene
I flee this scene
And pour a sky-blue drink.
credits
from Mantichorean,
released September 3, 2013
Lyrics by Stephen Wort.
Vocals, composition and heavy metal by Peter Watkinson (www.facebook.com/abomnium)
Though he was uncredited, Steve Albini was behind the boards on this noise rock classic from the forever feral Jesus Lizard. Bandcamp New & Notable May 8, 2024
Alex Henry Foster again collaborates with Canadian-Japanese artist Momoka, who also translates the lyrics from English to Japanese. Bandcamp New & Notable May 7, 2024