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Living through the Metaphors​/​Susie

from A Kind of Circle by Jim Bryce

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Imagine you're newly born, knowing what we know now. Takes us from birth (Living through the Metaphors) to those disturbing and often inexplicable dreams of the not-so-long born (Susie)

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LIVING THROUGH THE METAPHORS:
Flung out of the womb like a third-world refugee. Looking for an image that feels like me. Modify my feelings to connect with your roles. Building on your fears and making them my goals.
Flung out of free space into your cuboid world. Froming my opinions out of what you've told me. Damping down my fire 'cause your world is too hot. Building up my "is" from your "not".
Oh! I asked you to tell me, I begged you to tell me. It's just I didn't know your words. I was a new-born innocent without a language. I cried you for love, I cried you for joy and you smothered me in your beliefs. I cried you for Life and you gave me picture to carry through your cinema and make me live only through your metaphors.
On the edge of existence like a traitor and a spy, reviewing all the factors that make me lie. I've tested all you told me but you reasons don't compute. The world you planted in me got no roots.

SUSIE:
Susie's sitting by the fire at midnight, flames in her eyes. Tears kiss her lips no matter how she tries. Susie's wondering, as sleep slinks out the door. She seems unsure. "Daddy, why do ghosts and spirits haunt me so?"
Susie, I'll take you to a castle where the flowers lie dreaming, to a wonderful land. I'll take you to a meadow where the river's gleaming, to the waves and the sands.
Susie's snoozing in a room where only queens have lain before with gold and silver playthings at her door. Susie's running to a diamond river glistening in her dream, where unicorns and lovebirds drown her screams.

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from A Kind of Circle, released November 24, 2020
Jim Bryce - all music, lyrics, instruments and arrangements.
except - extract from meditation in "Metaphors" words: Tarchin Hearn.
Produced by Gerry Callaghan for Moreme.

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Jim Bryce Edinburgh, UK

Jim Bryce's music ranges from rockish to folkish to jazzish to music-hallish, to material which doesn't tick any boxes. He has also written for theatre, concert hall (squeaky and non- squeaky), film and radio programmes for the under nines.

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