Name: Swallowed By The Sky by David Hosking
Duration: 3 min 10 s
Description: Off the 2003 album "Sleeper". with Shelley Scown on harmony and Shane O'Mara on baritone and electric guitars.

Released in October 2021, BGM is the latest album by Ian Kitney. Recorded in the as-yet unnamed DIY studio built in Miyakonojo, southern Kyushu, Japan.

Remember

Patch of Sun

Voices

Running out of things to say,
Finally reached the point where silence is a word.
But I've become harder of hearing, so I'll say
"Say it again."

Thumbing through the pages of time,
Finally reached the point where there is no return.
But I'm taking up precious space now, so my time
My time is a friend.

Charging through the chapters and verse,
Harnessed with hell-leather and worse.

Fresh Out of Fucks

01-Say It Again

He was standing at the wicket
In his hand, a one-way ticket
He was really in the thick of it, he really tried to stick it out.

She was doing up her bootlace
Kneeling down beside her suitcase
She'd been slaving at the coalface without an ounce of headspace at all.

Now the last door is shut, lying on the floor but

Things are looking up
So don't look down
Fill your paper cup
But don't you drown.

They were standing on the platform
Outside it wasn't that warm
His persuasion was an artform, her happiness was reborn again.

Now the last door is shut, It's true, you couldn't make it up

Things are looking up
So don't look down
Fill your paper cup
But don't you drown.
Things are looking up
But don't look down
Things no longer suck
But don't lose your crown

02-Looking Up

When I think about the money spent
On corporate bailouts, 'too big to fail'?!
And I wonder where the money went,
Did it trickle down, is my cheque in the mail?
If it is I'm gonna spend it all,
And piss it up against a wall.

Corporate socialism spreads the wealth
Among the richest of the one percent.
But constant bitching about it's bad for your health,
And deep resentment is left to foment.
And I don't know if it's my windfall
That's raining down like free alcohol,
But I'm gonna fucking spend it all.

Then Bernie and his minions made off (Bernie Madoff, geddit?)
With tens of billions till we woke up.

And those with their billions spend millions to hide their trillions.

But most of the time there is no reason nor rhyme
Why I should join the breadline, while my goldmine is still mine.
But I can walk, and I can talk, and I can almost hear your voice.

03-Trickle Down

Don't come 'round, all up-wound,
Like a high-strung shooting star.
Don't be so, like a sideshow
Amplifying outrage at an avatar.

You won't get any reaction from here
My eyes are closed, wishing to disappear

'Cause I'm lazy, I can't be bothered
'Cause I'm lazy, and I don't care.
I'm just lazy, it doesn't matter
If I'm lazy, and I'm not changing, Davey.

I won't dance, there's no chance
You will ever hear me sing.
No travel, too much hassle,
Self denial is a beautiful thing.

You don't believe the importance of slumber,
My eyes and ears are so closed, it's no wonder

That I'm lazy, I can't be buggered
'Cause I'm lazy, and I don't care.
I'm just lazy, it doesn't matter
If I'm lazy, and I'm not changing, Tracey.

04-Lazy

This is a 2022 recording of an emergent sound scape recording (done on Skype at the Ian Potter Gallery members room in Melb) completed for an 'in progress' writing project on 'Composition'

Crowhurst & Emslie 29th 8 2022 Composing 1 Video - Meeting Recording

Off the 2003 album "Sleeper". with Shelley Scown on harmony and Shane O'Mara on baritone and electric guitars.

Sleeper

Swallowed By The Sky

New Album "Butterfly Net" release 23.2.2017 www.davidhosking.com

Swallowed By The Sky

David Hosking

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