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Time and the Weather

from Bastard Island by Steven Ball

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lyrics

the weather is routinely
unseasonable
no reliable reports
unpredictable

set up the microphone
time enough to prepare

wireless reports
the bay the sunset
the gale wind chimes
watching makes time

enough to prepare
to set the levels

deep height of day
reports wireless booster
trees ticking web
signal transmission

long distance thunder
supercell updraft

trees ticking web
microphone knitting
attenuating
talking ticking

scattering of light
the bay makes weather

test the limits
scattering of light
antenna system
two hours of night

the bay makes weather
the bright blinding light

reports wireless booster
on the cumulus bay
to make more time
time enough to prepare

calm wind of day
hailstones prepare

away from the land
and away from the land
the trees move enough
watching makes time

wireless reports
incoherent

supercell updraft
on the cumulus bay
two hours to sunset
cable delivery

time and the weather
storm clouds blow in

band unpredictable
two hours to sunset
some incoherent
deep height of day

blizzard against window
antenna system

weather routine
trees move enough
longer transmission
accumulate report

hailstones prepare
signal transmission

portable trees
accumulating nimbus
watching makes time
unseasonable

watch the trees move
watch enough time

test the limits
west, north, south, east
move across microphone
unpredictable

thunder wave band
dusk came quickly

calm wind of day
rough wind of storm
two hours to sunset
thunder spins level

and spirals around
away from the land

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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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