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Gigantone
02:41
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Tearing it Up
I'm a tall
Gigantone
Gigantone
Gigantone
I'm a tall
Gigantone
The earth and sun don't matter.
When I walk
The Angels look
At the strength I hold
In my elbow's cruck
When I walk
Through stars and void
The solar winds are shattered.
In my head
There's room to think
Room to drift
Room to grow
My head's a place
Where eagles roost
And monkeys come to chatter.
Upon the earth
I saw a speck
I spied a mite
A tiny fleck
Through clouds and years
I dragged it up
And on my shoulder sat it.
Now on this day
The tick arrived
Inside a mind
With room to share
Sun up sun down
We changed the shape
And water, earth are scattered.
Each day makes more
We build we break
Build and break
Build and break
Exuberant in entropy
We weave the cloth and tear it.
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Large
01:42
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Large
Dance as if you can, big man
Dance to die for
Rattle a thought, chase it round
Your tin head.
Lift your boots, sonny Jim
Scrape the clods
Off with fat fat fingers thick
Nails like bone.
Tilt your hips shakey shake
Slide that liver over
Put your heart in your hands,
Squeeze it like you mean it.
Those teeth are made for gnashing,
And you should gnash them too,
Make your tongue like a road
And walk out
Walk out
Walk on;
Sweat thick as amber dribbles
Sticky sap
And a smell to dissolve ozone;
That’s my boy!
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Larger
02:50
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Large
Dance as if you can, big man
Dance to die for
Rattle a thought, chase it round
Your tin head.
Lift your boots, sonny Jim
Scrape the clods
Off with fat fat fingers thick
Nails like bone.
Tilt your hips shakey shake
Slide that liver over
Put your heart in your hands,
Squeeze it like you mean it.
Those teeth are made for gnashing,
And you should gnash them too,
Make your tongue like a road
And walk out
Walk out
Walk on;
Sweat thick as amber dribbles
Sticky sap
And a smell to dissolve ozone;
That’s my boy!
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Together
04:09
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Together
His chin a cantilever growing outwards
Set of jaw, jowls, lip - secure.
Cheeks the twin castles, bridge of nose,
Bluff brow over cleft lids;
Night thick hair and voice without words.
I’ll be a fool for you, my errors
As large as your arms my flaws
As voluminous as your lungs
My love will break upon you, darling colossus,
We will founder together in mistaken endeavours;
Make thunderous love, striking flints
Striking sparks, drowning in perspiration.
Set of jaw, jowls, lip - secure;
I see what we are and what we are for.
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Too Big
03:37
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Too Big
Too big, your mass breaks the crust
of earth in which I am a red spot.
Keeping still one may perceive
the passage of your hands.
Looking up I thought a bird had landed
impossibly high on your collar’s edge and
folding its cloud wings closed,
slept within my own dream.
Large your feet that press the rock flat,
large your step which is a single day
and walking measures out the year in
strides one day left, one day right.
What is a giant except ideas
too big to hold in your mind
or a lens too wide to find the focus
on so small a skin as mine.
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Might
02:54
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Might
Irascibility incarnated
should be the itch by which you scratch
with so many more legs, so many more arms;
but all of your grist powers thinking
and all of your thoughts are potentials
nothing in your body but drive
to move the earth.
Make it change, reset all orbits by
wild hypotheses and crazed calculus;
such a small item, a mite,
almost as invisible as an idea
and with which small totem I might
fill my mind and paint the walls
giving an emulsion to emotion.
Think me into action, tiny one
my head is yours, my body, arms, legs
with both hands and both feet I make
a progress elective, a passage selected,
moving with a purpose; we, us;
heating muscles to combustive drive,
we, you, I, we.
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Beetle
06:47
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Production - Anders Rigg
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8. |
Unexpected
05:15
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Production - Anders Rigg
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9. |
Together: Reprise
01:19
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Trumpet - Richard Merchant
Trombone - Ross McCrae
Saxophone - Duncan Horne
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Cycles
03:44
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Cycles
the fleece the horn the lanolin
the scratch the cut the broken skin
the felted wool and filthy beast
a place to lay my babies in
a summer’s breeze my wings to carry
in lazy buzzing rounds and lays
from fruit to flower, on beer and yeast
drosophilated couples marry
we turn your wine to vinegar
drink your blood through hairy lips
stroke you where you like it least
and look to where the spoiled things are
we look to where the spoiled things lie
to where the loved becomes forgotten
and hold it in our suckered feet
commit a prayer to all things rotten
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Oceanallover Scotland, UK
Oceanallover are a dance, design and theatre company making original and exciting new work. We collaborate with a wide range of musicians working across many styles.
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