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Volume 19 – Sky Burial – 4th Quarter 2009
1- CHOICE- Looking at the Four Counties From two Capital Cities London and Edinburgh What do I see A cat asleep at Peace People linking make connections A pulse along the streets We’re so mixed up It’s a job to know who to fight Or how to single them out In our little enclaves and ghettoes of the night All our varying stereotypes The outside world she senses in me But never sees its mystery I have made it possible for you at least partially I like sleeping in the Sunshine then go out into Night Some things repeat themselves so often that they are obviously part of your story
2- ONE-VEE- Rasputin behind The Russian Imperial Court Double-headed Eagle we are taught Repeat occurrences From notable villains Bodyguard mounted security What do you mean I don’t say that about you We have cashflow problems We usually do Lancaster stews In cans too Now available at Tesco’s! Skull with a hammer through it One-Vee upon its forehead
3- PATHWORKING- If that is all you see in me Then I pity You If there wasn’t a problem We’d invent one All the trappings of wealth and success But cashflow has its ups and downs yet Your path has not been thwarted But some of these are blocked Sarah and Serena could find Sophie Over at the Metropolitan But that never happened Caught up in the rapture Follow the point Put another coin in the Mortal Combat slot Adventure Gaming again Quite a lot for Zeus to choose from in this month Weave your Magick so
4- THE GOOD SHIP VENUS- My camera work has taken her onto Youtube thus far As “Samantha’s Hotline” takes shape Not sure yet what else to film A valuable commodity She is making a shout here now On to the next level A team of friends helping Some pitfalls in the way For the time being I’m riding When there is no excuse Need something out there too Try Towcester Racecourse As the eleventh ball
5- CRAWLING OUT OF MY CAVE- It has been amazing That feeling we’ve shared I can remember the good times Still finding things too To do in the Four Counties Ten years up the line Trying to be generous Finding it difficult Once more Strontium Dog Tight all over at the moment Sell a new product A sophisticated woman We’re all craving for the Sun to shine Try to make it ours Maybe She can take us somewhere
6- PHAEDRUS- Pull threads together From different lyrics To make a new reinforcement idea Like “Virtue” Like “Philosophy Faculty” Time and again these things have been good Like the colours of the frames Leading in a direction Guard against the traps you set me Try and get through this situation peacefully Like Phaedrus I Notice the similarities
7- IN DEMAND- If we invest in what we like They will become more popular Or more widely available to be precise Waging battles taking sides picking fights Book off the Yard politely For an assignation back in Town Juggling diaries with sublety Make sure we don’t go down Or stand each other up Misplaced arrangements fuck us over But fortunately are rare Without this we cannot mobilise obviously true Fluent Sanskrit out it comes And the locks on the car went Satanically coincidental Not only in Notting Hill but in The United Kingdom
8- ORDER IN CHAOS- “John’s not dealing with her anymore-What are we going to do?” Ordering in reverse my volumes From eighteen down Perhaps bucking at Thirteen Flipping and starting at One again Frontloading the most recent stuff first Places I’ve ridden Places I’ve written about Places we actually go Things that don’t bear repeating Not worthy of even a mention so Because she thought you needed a scare Because I drove away Like a stack of magazines this Quarter’s issue goes on top
9- TINKERBELL- In a smoke-filled cavernous nightclub Dry ice billowing everywhere Tinkerbell takes the stage Four Gods in the Air Striking deals tell the Story Of how we got our share I thought this was just the Beginning but in fact we were There
10- FEEL YOUR PULSE- “The Sun” it must be To be as bored as fuck on an estate Up in Scotland Or stuck in the turmoil Down here! Pulse it deep inside you Spray it into the waterworks the eggs will follow International Dateline Passes year after year If you can’t say it with words Don’t fight back at all But got to be ready for the Games Day Join together in the Astral Light that is how we do it
11- MAPPING- Go Bongos! Get Bongolised! Bongolian Barbecue! But Beware the Ides of March! They caught God and put Him away Locked up in a cage It didn’t fit in with the plans of Man Chaos Knights were all the rage The Assassins came before them Ace of Disks Two Disks Entertaining High Adventure Rocky Road ice cream English Strawberry Cheesecake or Dark Chocolate Fudge Something like a view of our surrounding terrain
12- FALSE GODS- The men grow beards and veil their women Outlaw the veil in The United Kingdom! And watch their satellite television From their caves out on the rocks And don’t try to tell me This is religion Because if it is It sucks
13- SOMETHING- A twist of the cube Throws up another combination Galaxy Zoo The Sun and The Moon and Star Systems The Stars are all fixed but the systems rotate about them like Hula Hoops Reproduced in the Heavens above us Seriously rich seriously powerful Something about the Garden that I have managed to keep Under Control Something about the Website that needs a six-month overhaul Something about the horses That we get them to run Something about the Magazine That we spy out the fun Something about the Magazine that you know me from
14- PERSONA- If it is getting confrontation Someone else cares about it too Not “The Sun” but “The Empire” We are Us two You want everyone to hear it You’re prepared to take the flak Little surprise that people Answer back These are the things we’ve done together With our time here on Earth No need to know us Just enjoy our Show The public persona is what binds us What’s on in the Forum today? Wouldn’t you like to know!
15- MAKE IT- You’re migrating, Sophie Or they are They’ve tried to knock you off your slot Stand firm a moment girl Until they realise That they can’t replace you You on the spot They will never get on As long as I try to make it with you But they are very few
16- ABACUS- Someone whispers to me Don’t leave yourself short But bridge yourself Unto another date Twelve functions of a mathematics equation Get in before the interest does They won’t see me on a Future Don’t let them a Present take Try to be honest A living wage
17- ENTRANCE- Four-day rotating shifts On the menu it seems A lot of dairy products recently Milkshakes and ice creams Orpheus and Eurydice Take off in another direction A better balance to find My hand on your belly The soul we have in kind Think about entering a crowded room It looks like a bomb has hit it this place All eyes upon you Shine out in all this mess Bring a sparkle to desperate men Come up smelling of roses Shout “Shazaam!!!!” again We’ll get a shift on then
18- THELEMA- By Adoption or by Influence We send the message on I reason We reason Push the frontiers home They’re contesting my Will again Some obstructions to overcome There’s no money in it But self-preservation Ensures it must be done
19- SHAPES- Got to get out now Before it’s Morning comes again Squeeze in the hours With a few good friends Too soon the morning comes Shapes like “Vector” and “Vortex” Shapes like “Magazine” and “Trigger” Ulterior motives like the Conies and the Vets Shapes like “Sekhmet” I came across her at a crossroads hoping for a way through These are all the things we can do Very grateful really when it happens I’m blonde enough already No need to dye it yet A promontory over Banbury 8 yards in fifteen years 12 eggs commonly For our hopes and fears
20- MY LADY IN THE MORNING- Oxford did not fall for “Take a Spare Broomstick” Gentle and Peeohpah Very like Imajica You’re more important to me That is why I risk and book you over anything My Lady In the Morning I greet thee Co-pilot you read the signs On the streets of Portobello Off to discover adventure In Camden and Islington now We’re like Starsky and Hutch she says Tour the streets day after day Or she’s Pris from Bladerunner Tried Nottingham already with “A Warlock’s Tarot” See what else they are willing to do
21- POWER- We have had some great big rows It should have been on telly - Reality TV! Virtue- three crispy fivers fifteen quid Kisschase or am I outbid Virtue for a float Virtue for Fame Virtue for a clean slate Power- four pink fifty’s here we go On with the Show On with the Show Power to make a move Power to really do Something Someone else has helped to bankroll us I drove away three times Soph got summoned to the Police Station I got pulled by the Police twice in a week in the car Once with a speedgun Once in a one-way street Power- an argument that meant she lost a gig James has gone off with his secretary Three times you lost your keys Forgetting things in a state of unease Once she took my phone Once I smashed it when I fell from that horse Four parking fines of course On single yellows or a zigzag line Cameras watching us all the time To have Power only to come up against the Law! Don’t want to be Wanted Dead or Alive and face a life in Hell Avoid the criminal element and try to do it well Keep my reputation as we travel to who can tell Stand for what we believe in and encourage it to a Sell The continuing stories of Sky Burial You are all a part of it This little spell We relay it to you
22- PRAY- Pray to a horse for the fields Pray to a car for the land Pray to a woman for loving And Pray to the World for a living That I can understand
23- 7X7X7- A cube for the house Juggler’s Box A cube for the Bank Digits forming A cube for a Diary Pharaoh Timetable Seven cubes a day Seven days a week Seven people get involved This is where we speak Ride in the morning Lunch in the pub Record in the afternoon Two cubes colliding for our diaries coming together
24- RESULTS- Ulterior motives like a promontory Where the Senior Common Room meets Ulterior motives like eight horse yards Where I have been What besides and what else to say Do I mean? There with the Contacts Influence upon a wide spread What is the shape of the Nation After these things I have said?
25- ON THE MANOR- Rocky Road ice cream has been taken off the market Because it was too dangerous Chicken and Chips because we’ve got kids The fingers of the Mermaid The toes of the Fool Starsky and Hutch like she says Or Life on Mars instead Plainclothes on the gritty city streets War-torn but fighting Twenty pictures of me in my Deck And six other girls We can think on our feet We can stand on our own two feet Like lightning we think
26- FEELIN’ LUCKY- Extra cigarettes appearing Suddenly more change Parking spaces appear at will Free credits on the phone When you fear a fine but you don’t get one Persecution Complex again Feelin’ Lucky day The lighter that will eventually ignite The ignition that actually starts Night on Earth with my Co-pilot We breed tomorrow’s people the night before Flush away some eggs my sperm will follow on In a city of millions Faces you’ll never see again is the norm Controlled Information
27- BIBLE- The Emperor Constantine At the time of the Creed of Nicaea 415 AD Groot Constantia a vineyard in South Africa I met you when We were kids in the playground You walked into the Circle with me Caspar Balthezar and Melchior the Three Wise Men Caesar Augustus at the time of Christ’s birth Augustus Caesar! Candy and Tzaddi, Trixie and Ron
28- SWARMS- Find government In the armies of White Dwarf Cosmic clock independant of us Watching the Procession of The Aeons Living and changeable relationship We don’t need weapons We rule by example
29- PYRAMIDS- Become digital with a four-ball base To make twenty or thirty apiece Like the spread of my most recent “Fantasy...” Out to that number of people I did get it that far afield Starting from nowhere Knight of Swords or The Sun In a top hat we come Like Kumba Mela we all go 35 then 42 Meet the Swarms in their multitudes Skip through Ruin and into Love at the Summer Solstice
30- DAFFODILS AGAIN- Daffodils Daffodils Daffodils Daffodils Spiralling into the Future with her Year after year stretching to Infinity the Pattern of the Seasons change In every forseeable Future That will repeat itself forever Even after we are gone And even if we come back again That is how this planet goes Oranges from Four to Fourteen Expanding artworks is the scene Expanding on a recurring theme Reaching out to increasing numbers Reaching out to human beings Pulled by your Misses Through a Diary At an alarming speed Aphrodite and “the Beast whereon She rideth”, “Sphinx sat astride many wheels” Comparing it with many alternatives I have made a home up here Not married, not in a church No children that I know of, none that I pay for
31-FORTUNE TELLER- Dashing White Sergeant eighteen readings in a day You have to sacrifice yourself to read for other people That is what they say Years before I did an Advanced Tarot Reader’s Course at Mysteries Magick Shop in Covent Garden Nearly put my hunt coat On fire When the cigarette I put back In my pocket Hadn’t expired Do it for fun Do it for sheer bloody exhilaration! Do it to prove yourself To your fellow man!
32- THESE HORSES THEY GO- On top of the World They know These horses They go Not long I can get away with these bright colours We are usually more subdued Too “gay”, too vulnerable a mood
33- BASSLINE- Spans a generation me and Tony... We need a female bass! Be part-time goths for the night Diamond Diamond Diamond Diamond Diamonds on the patchwork bought 22 years ago on Bali Sleep in the corner of your bed In a Diamond shape With your female bass Boom Boom Thumping out across the room Be good to yourself instead Drive a channel through your head It takes good money to put on these shows Do it for something to do Do it for me and you And anyone else that catches on
34- TWO FISHES ON THE LINE- Drive my sword into the throne And claim this Kingdom as our own The many counsels that we have Teach us how to rule this land Policy leads us to An actress, a horsewoman, and Metal Two fishes on the line... another actress and a special weapon hopefully they’re fine In tempered steel it is wrought And we drive out unclean thought Like Hell on Earth they make some places Ride first before we argue But we know it through the clouds You know too well the price of life Where humanity is not violated
35- SUPPLY- An army of horses Not fighting- no enemies Fighting for a standard of living Co-operation generosity and persuasion More sophisticated commodities Than the forty of Sector Flux Like the very lives we lead Read all about it On stage in books and magazines Support some and not others that is how we lead Haven’t found it out there Few Allies
36- AT HER MAJESTY’S TABLE- Those two girls fight dirty Y’know We need to take them over Only because the Power Source Lies at Her Majesty’s Table Litter the floor with their praises That is where it has been going Among some other places Empress Scale or Peace Colourways What colour the next set of frames Where will they take me Where will they go In this house that is my home Five dried oranges in the office glow Dried pink flowers in two rooms Back to life again on another planet Back to life again with you
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