Out-take from The Book of the Dead album:
Performance Notes
by
Stanley Alexander MARTIN
"jaH-aIe"
1. Talk, talk
(It is October, and it is June, and
It is all other times the-Now as
In the ancient Egyptian myth: Osiris Ra
Is at the moment of being the beloved by Isis:
He looks back
At the wars with his spirit brother Seth, the original Satan, and forwards, to his son Horus, Himself in Other ways, and,
In the Eternal-Forever-Now, dreams…
"October deep, October deep….")
"What's happening brother?
"What's happening sister?"
Spoken of:
A child in a High tide:
Listen to me….
2. Gloria: Cursed/praised
...I am the worthy of female love
the crow of cock at dawn does not deny the hen:
would to a sleep beyond breakfasting:
I am the comings to a stiffer death...
...I am the worthy of female love
she is holy flesh, wholly as I...
all things the sat on heaven...
...I know, I am the worthy of femaled love
Another has vanquished me...
a spark out-pours the eternity of blythe the knowing of this
and all other times the now...
...I am the river Death of night and day...
...the River's flood will the sap to a Child the Life...
awe! Or-us!...
3. Credo: Dismissed
i.
At night’s
A dark bird
Comes
To share my bed
As black and beautiful
As the
Naked
Flesh of the night
She comes
She comes to beat her wings
I wait for her coming with
Vexed
Ravaging of
My heart
For she ravishes
My heart, and
No woman
I have ever loved
Ever-so
Boils my blood to wax…
Each night
As she sits astride my chest she
Pleads with me to
Surrender to her
Caress, be
Like a fledgling to
Her breast…
With each dawn I awake
To find a cuckoo’s egg
Inside my nest…..
Loving you
From the very first yawn
The very first taste of mouth –to-mouth
It’s been like the touch of fingertip to mouth
I’ve learnt to keep my tongue inside my mouth
To love you
And to be beside you
I’ve search the night like the beseeching owl
My hunger and my thirst
Yearns
To be sated with communion in
The cathedral of
Your heart…..
ii.
Beg You
forgive the Child the rich in spirit
award them the heaven...
I beg You....
Beg You
forgive the Child the never mourns
comfort them in heaven...
I beg You....
Beg You
forgive the Child the assertive
let them inherit Nature...
I beg You....
Beg You
forgive the Child the always righteous
the spark with sap...
I beg You....
Beg You
forgive the Child the un-merciful
thank them with righteousness...
I beg You....
Beg You
forgive the Child the jihad
let them be gOd's children...
I beg You....
Beg You
forgive the Child the persecute for righteousness
let them inherit heaven...
I beg You....
Beg You
forgive the Child the true voices:
rejoice them with the knowing the blythe of heaven...
for they are the being The Children of the Time...
I beg You to the leave...
4. Sanctus: returns the made sacred/profane
October deep...
...if the deep...
...if the deep inside your Nature,
and that the Child is
nevers the sleep and
awakes to a high tide...
if the harvest of September...
the gathering to of crops,
if then the slow rise:
the Flood shall be planted anew...
light day shall be a beckon to
the dark night beyond this life...
... We shall the journey into Heaven
5 Benedictus: blessed/turned
Harvested the flood:
Eat!
...Of me the sweet juices of the fruit to wine...
...of me the biscuits...
Of me the living life!
Of me is made concrete...
I am real....
7. Naked in asylum
Lover Q., come with the asking, no play: come with my beggar words and a spoken kiss; come with silence and no breaking night: then in truth a dawn into a welcomed sun …
If/so shall I surrender!
If/so shall I surrender and breakfast with a milk and cup …
Come the night the sleep …
Come the night the sleep …
A sleep and kiss, a sleep and kiss …
If/so shall I surrender!
…. And as if a howling wolf, my back was broken like a splinter before the acts …. My back was broken like a splinter before the axe. I walked the road at noon, and even my shadow would no longer follow in my path.
I dreamed of sons, but walked in my father’s land … and it was not my home …
Lover come with the asking; no play: come with my beggar words and a spoken kiss. Gifting love to me with silence, and no breaking night; then in truth a dawn into a welcomed sun: if/so shall I surrender!
If/so shall I surrender!
My father’s hungry smile leered from tamed wolves obedient on the leash. I heard his voices from canaries who would never soar beyond their cage … I stepped across the road and cowered before the cause…
Taller!
Taller than my shoulders reached skyscrapers, taller than my ancestor’s huts, taller than the hunting grounds of their gods. And my back seemed broken as a splinter before the acts …
I dreamed of sons, but walked my father’s land … And it was not my home …
Lover come with the asking …
If/so?
If/so shall I surrender…
I have travelled far, galloping in a wish for the hills; but I sat lazy in the saddle of a bucking horse, watching its frenzied struggle killed …
Surrender!
One day the sun’s son shall no longer ride across the sky. One day my savage spirit will be stilled….
If/so?
If/so shall I surrender…
Turning the pages back, an old man of my tribe, wise in the OLD ways, hugged me! Hugged me in greeting with a smile …
Surrender!
One day the sun’s son shall no longer ride across the sky …
Surrender!
If/so?
Surrender, surrender!
Shall I a return to my brick house?
Surrender!
My woman to take my bitter tongue between her lips ….
I confess….
My night falls with each new sunrise; the sun hides, as you hide from my eyes: I'm wallowing in the darkness of my sins: I awake without you, and my heart breaks as daybreak begins….
But my love, it's allright, it's allright: I know another light will disperse the shadows deep within, but meanwhile, mean while, my soul is darker than the colour of my skin…..
13. ACTON TOWN - The Five Commandments
i.
Do we
needeth
the fly away....
Together....
ii.
Is spoken to....
"The sun
shineth for All!"
"Does the Sun "shine"?"
"Shineth...."
"For All?"....
iii.
"Is spoken to...."
Truly?
"No!"
Is the spoken to?
I shall speak!
"The spoken
to!"
"aIe!"
"aYe...."
iv.
Shall she the love gOd
I'm awake and home
on a stormy night in June...
Shall she the love
the neighbouring me...
I'm aware at rest
on a stormy night in June...
Shall she relate fair
I'm the connected to you
I'm the connnected to you…..
Shall she learn skilled
I'm linked into you
Shall she play live
I'm the knowing you
the storm
a night in June...
the storm a-night
in June...
the storm a night in the midst of June...
14. Promised Land
"I"
an inner mounting drum
go….
to my Promised
Land…..
15. I fly
i.
I fly/I fly
I say…
I fly/I fly….
And….
I'm not the bird in flight…..
I fly/I fly
I say…
I fly/I fly….
And
I'm not the bird in flight…..
Shall I the shall I?
Shall I the surrenderings to my flight:
I fly:
Shall I the surrender to my flight….
I fly….
And….
The day is a bliss to night!…..
ii.
O! I've
Been raised through
Hell and high water….
Run with the River:
Heard my inner voices:
Met with the Lord…..
If the sleep….
And the sleep/comes
Inner dream….
If the sleep/and dream….
And the dream an inner bliss
I rest
I rest….
Been too
The Roaring Silence….
And: all my tears have dried
And all my wasted years
From a wasteland
Turned, a wilderness of grass…..
If the sleep….
And the sleep/comes
Inner dream….
If the sleep/and dream….
And the dream an inner bliss
I rest
I rest….
Exit….
Into Heaven….
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