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And On The Heath

from All Living Can Anyone Be Here by Steven Ball

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lyrics

it’s bound to fail
this impossible landscape
it’s over there
always the past
out of place
and out of time
we can’t observe
the boundless heath
all we do is
point to things

the heater’s on
the windows are thin
I’m trying hard to
to keep this warmth in
smile with us
in the morning
the best music
we play it all for you
again the same car
driving more slowly
and other traffic
moves toward camera
before indicating
taking left turn
stationary cars
pedestrians

all grey up on
the black heath
low edge of cloud
shallow depth of field
forms rectangular
metallic sky
green underneath
and seen between
oblique squinting
ochre sunlight
dull glow diffuse
overcast

and on the heath
sirens, police
crows, ducks, and geese
a Tuesday in
the afternoon
up on the heath
early winter
crisp and chill
mounds in circles
bus rattles past
sirens and geese
crows and police
mind how you go
raven or crow
light on a branch
skeletal tree
on Whitefield Mound
birch, fir and gorse

camera pan
speeding van
rain falls in grey
far away

back on the heath
I try to write
the sense of site
invoke the place
the here and now and
back in time
in 88 or 73 or 99

it’s bound to fail
this impossible landscape
it’s over there
always the past
out of place
and out of time
we can’t observe
the boundless heath
all we do is
point to things

it’s bound to fail

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from All Living Can Anyone Be Here, released June 22, 2020

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Steven Ball London, UK

Steven Ball has been working as an artist since the early 1980s, in film, video, sound, installation, and performance, and has been a member of the post-punk DIY group Storm Bugs. In 2014 he started writing and recording songs as a solo project, being particularly concerned with experimenting with which kinds of texts might constitute a song lyric. ... more

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