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St Tosh the Actor

from 5 Dreams by Soft Plastics

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From Soft Plastics' album 5 Dreams from Paper Bag Records 2020.

lyrics

I heard the towers

Twelve elevators

The smoking rotors

Winching the actor up into the pyramid’s caw



There acts the elder

Stock ill grandfather

Spittling orders

Spitting reflections that break up the flood’s murky top



He builds on order

A clear forced order

Exile and border

But I’m hot in the day and I’m hot in the night



I’m here for colour

Market pigments

Parks and fragments

Squeezed and boiled and run through the finest of cloth



And that’s my dollar

Colours for dollars

To paint such squalor

Bog land yes festering open and un-bordered swamp



Heteronymous, the painter of fire

Burning colours being squared into style

Little darkness in the corner

That aisle of ferns

It’s umber-ochre green and officially banned



I’m followed

I comb the stage

For my friend the actor

Jonah St Tosh from 10,000 muddy miles away



He speaks the truth, man

Skies open up

Torrential cameos

Rain run amok



And then for one minute

Glory the world wobbles

One stunning minute

The play that never stops comes to a sunny-stop



We watch the light beam

St Tosh cries “A new scene!”

All hail this new scene

All hail the sunbeam golden and sent from a God



All the players start their praising and chant

“Welcome sunbeam, you shall wake up and plant

Holy seed into a city that slants

Into the shimmering image that it seeks to supplant”



Out in the forests there are priests who alone keep a chant

They congregate

Around a golden bell

A crack in its crown: no longer a hanging golden cup

Their tsar, he did frown



But lo and behold

Wet angels

And the concept of redemption puts my cheek upon the ground

And I’m moaning and furiously gnashing a foolish longing



And I’m fine, and I’m done

Exit the city to let it run

I won’t fret at this world, I am too much for this world

I am followed and hurled into a deep raining pit



And in the darkness, I envision a light

Questions golden and infused with my light

Light is inner and it lights up the heights

And people gather and sing, I was an angel



That’s right

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from 5 Dreams, released June 5, 2020

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