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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:45 pm    Post subject: Sad Maths or Disconsolate Reply with quote

This one took a while. Smile
It's one of my favourites.

Disconsolate, one may fall under a sad spell of melancholy
Drearily colouring one’s perceptions that even the brightest spectacle
Of natural wonder, or of man’s generosity to fellow man
Or any like display which might ordinarily give cheer.

And, disallowing the warmer chambers of one’s heart to open
In acceptance of what tokens of good will, good fortune and provenance are cast one’s way
The darker recesses of the mood shadowed mind will grasp at these bits and twist with fingers of perversity
Like the cat’s cradle, strands of these offerings, till all are transformed in ones perceptions, into mockeries, cruel masquerades, impish visions of fineries, serving only to taunt the mind turned convex to repel them

No word of cheer, no shoulder of sympathy,
No welcome _________
The project of seeing the drab underlying material of which sunshine is masked by thin and falsifying light

One will assume a stance of superior and sorrowful knowing
And an impenetrable cloud will have affixed itself to one’s inner horizons.

When, in the heavy footed wanderings, which are the one exercise the sad spell allows,
One should happen onto a certain side street, or particular punch(?) of meadow,
Or any other lonely or infrequently travelled landscape,
One will scarcely notice the growing unfamiliarity of the green grey street-post, or the untrampled weeds, or the unfootprinted sands or muds, or dust-caked car doors.

Disconsolate, one may fall under a sad spell of melancholy
Drearily colouring one’s perceptions that even the brightest spectacle
Of natural wonder, or of man’s generosity to fellow man
Or any like display which might ordinarily give cheer.

It all adds up sad when you make sad maths
So don’t take that walk down that rotting path.


Jeff or Jack, if you read this, I'd really love any corrections.
Also, I'm never sure if this is actually by Jeff or Jack, or if it is a poem they've decided to use. I always think the languge is a bit different to them. But I'm probably very wrong.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That took me 16 hours straight to finish! I had to listen to every different version I have to find some words, and all I get is "Thanks" not even a full stop!!?!???? How fucking dare you!!!??!?!?

Arrrghhh! I'm not even going to bother posting my complete history of communism (1-4) lyrics now!!!

(could be joking)
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank a bunch then Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Instead of homework!!!! I am shocked and appalled!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

it's AWESOME thank you so much!!!!
Here's for you! Smile

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it christmas already for Kidam ?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it's christmas everyday, cuz of the snow you see.
Actually a rough cut of the documentary should be finished for Christmas...
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

.....And were back from Texas.........
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh my !!!!poor Jack!!! loads of work, thank you very much....it's very difficult to figure the lyrics for this one, you did a fuckinggood job! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sad Math sounds like a Shakespeare or Milton pastiche or some other antique giant of English Literature. I find more redundancies than feeling which is depressing in itself. I never heard it performed so could someone post an mp3? Maybe Jeffrey wrote it while trying to illustrate Macbeth.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hahah!i couldn't tell...

i've got the said song on a couple of bootlegs, at the sidewalk café in 2003 and at the lock17, london in 2004, do you want me to send them to you by pm?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well,it ends in a rhyming couplet like a Shakespearean sonnet, the imagery is convoluted and some of the sentence structures and word usages are not modern. "Give cheer" for example. I never hear Jeff talk or write like that. This kind of poetry would now be considered artificial or pretentious except as an exercise in imitating what you read in English Literature. I wonder if "provenance" is really "providence" as "provenance" ( an unusual word I never heard anyone use) doesn't make sense in that context. If you post the mp3 on Sendspace and give us the address everybody can hear it. If not send me the best version of it by PM.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now that I heard it performed it's more interesting with music and chanting. Kind of like a Patti Smith poetry reading. Bet the crowd will prefer the Creeping Brain . Thanks to Jack for figuring out what's being said here as it's difficult to understand.
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