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Brownout

from Bastard Island by Steven Ball

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lyrics

waiting for the brownout
the lapse occurred at breakfast
the dropped cup overturned
on the table again
absent seconds began
and ended suddenly

then time came together again

flat screen
horizon
eating
sleeping
tracing a line on a page
super eight and video tape
kept us young

waiting for the brownout
after the crash 1979
going nowhere fast
speed flattening everything
we were man and woman
one hundred brownouts daily

but time came together again

middle
distant
flat screen
horizon
eating
sleeping
tracing a line on a page
super eight and video tape
kept us young

waiting for the brownout
we were woman and man
we were both and neither
nothing seemed to exist
or couldn’t be described
or communicated

when time came together again

twilight
brownout
middle
distant
flat screen
horizon
eating
sleeping
tracing a line on a page
super eight and video tape
kept us young

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from Bastard Island, released January 11, 2019

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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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