[NetBehaviour] sight for sound and sound for sight

[Alan Sondheim]

sight for sound and sound for sight


http://www.alansondheim.org/vco.jpg
+/- 1970 - home-made voltage-controlled oscillator synthesizer
module, range sub- to ultra-sonic, now in the ELO archives

http://www.alansondheim.org/spent4.mp3
Azure Carter, voice; Alan Sondheim, long-necked saz (after a
lengthy bridge resetting and tuning) - finally love the version
we were able to record here!

http://www.alansondheim.org/spent7.mp3
Azure Carter, voice and song, Alan Sondheim, viola, a second
interesting version. The lyrics (Azure Carter, Alan Sondheim)
are below.


SPENT

I spend my life
pondering life
what else can I do
but ponder life

I spend my life
pondering space
what else can I do
but ponder time

I spend my life
in thought of worlds
what else can I do
but think of worlds

I am useless
for the making of things
for the thought of them
in space and time

I am priceless
for the thinking of things
and pondering them
in space and time

of suffering
I am useless
and useless
for the gift of kindness

of healing
I have nothing
but my own
I refuse to heal

Theres no balance here
no equation
nothing but facts
and space and time

worlds
slaughter worlds
everyone
slaughters everything

I spend my life
in useless flight
what else can I do
but ponder time
I spend my life
slave to the truth
what else can I do
but living

of politics
I devour gristled meat
eat through the worms
of corruption

of religion
I wave the sword
penetration
what else can I do

I will not howl
at gods in flight
and pondering
what else can they do

I will not ponder
things dead and gone
and empty
what else can I do

this sun
lies to me
I will not face
this coming day

neither sun
nor gods
ponder humans
what else can they do

earth is our slaughterhouse
earth is our grave
I spend my pondering life
What else can I do

I spent my life
pondering life
nothing left to do
nothing left to do

what else can I do
what else can I do


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