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Memory & Other Drugs

from Hymns to the Air by Basciville

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lyrics

A wild power fills me when I step out into the world of man
A sudden and brutal thing, conducted by a long lost hand
To be deep in it to struggle for more
Grab the hand of any passing form in the door
To know the laughter, noise, shit & all that runs
Down from it’s guttered beginning, to it’s ending in my lungs
But coming up hard on the long ended shove
Claiming with each holy breath to have won some autonomy of air
Autonomy over the air

In between rows & rows of lost faces
Rueing what stops them from rising up and obtaining their grace
Beginning each sentence again with a nod
Reaching for clarity & all the above
Still hands reach over and under and over to pull
Rumours begin & die on the floor of God’s last great hall
Your hours close in & morph into one
Screaming unending through fear to have won some autonomy of air
Autonomy over the air

How long we fought the evidence
How come we call it salient

The night drains out into the cold of some lost street
Signify all notions, we wed ourselves to be
In the throes of a bloody & blasphemous love
The green eyed seductress the working man’s lust
See the dead stare collective form round the last remaining sun
Moving from desire to envy all with the grace of a dog
Still drawing out water from the viaduct of
The blue eyed sepulchre the prodigal tongue
I am running not ending man awh still high from the fall
I have come past your door to be cut, known, qualified & hung
Yet screaming I’m open I am above
All barstool apostles some poet in love with autonomy over the air
Autonomy over the air
Autonomy of air

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from Hymns to the Air, released February 26, 2021

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Basciville Wexford, Ireland

Basciville are an Irish songwriting duo made up of brothers Cillian and Lorcan Byrne. Blending Folk with Rhythm & Blue, Jazz and sonorous Orchestral harmony, Basciville offer a different angle on modern Indie-Folk music

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