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Meanwhile

by Max Davies

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Antinomies make up the weight of the world.
Certain scenarios can often be both true and false
depending on circumstance.
Absolutes are so rarely absolute
and so often are relative shades of some kind of
broken perfection.

This song was written in Nevada City, California one fine evening several years ago.
For some time It lived in stasis, preening itself for the current incarnation you now encounter, weaving, dancing and reverberating within its own fabric to outline its own particular being. It has explored the realms of digital binary commitment and analog magnetic binding in its culmination.
It has been there and back and there and back again.
It has wended its way through the vicissitudes of self-doubt and procrastination, explored the heights of indulgence and austerity and found itself here.

It hopes to evoke a sense of dépaysement in the vein of Andre Breton, John Lennon and Leanora Carrington upon the listener, and is most indebted to their influences.

lyrics

Blowing from the future
Catch a taste of what
You once dreamed

Not another alibi
Not until the which way
Comes down

Something like a switchback
Current coming on
Like a murder scheme

Waiting for the lines
To weave and form
In future song

Shooting from the past line
Hunger for a sunrise
Trademark

Nothing like a formula
Zero in on
Meanwhile

Corporation nightmare
Automatic magic
For everyone

Auguring utility
Poison pen breaking
A gilded cage

But it's all
About
Within
Without
The up
The down
Within
The now

Looking for a hungry ghost
Somewhere in the
Present momentum

Simple as a mirror-ball
Painting amber lies
In red and green

Silver studded icon
Manifest a feeling
Beyond words

Look upon the next page
Till invisible
Becomes undone

Flowering the next phase
Cancelling distortion
With open arms

Moving with Illusion
Shaking off the form of
A broken will

Whispering the first word
Just below what once
You thought you knew

Listen to the slight hum
Silhouette and
Guiding light

But it's all
About
Within
Without
The up
The down
Within
The now

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released May 31, 2021
Written, performed and produced by Max Davies
Gampo Magick Publishing ASCAP

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Songwriter, guitarist and producer. Max Davies has been featured in: Artforum; Guitar World & Guitarist magazines; Centre Pompidou, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, and on numerous albums and films. He has worked with Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, CA Conrad, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Eleni Sikelianos Gregory Alan Isakov, and more. ... more

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