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The Peasants' Revolt

by Duncan Park

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Did you see where they came from? Did you breathe what they breathed? Oh no
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The Tree 01:25
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I fixed the outside lamp Broken by a falling tree I sawed the branches off Separated wood from leaves A swimming pool to cool my body in Neighbours watched ravenously Monkeys came to raid the fruit trees Which grow so willingly Gymnogene was hanging On my neighbour's palm tree Floodplain between our houses Ran with heavy rain Carving out a valley To keep ourselves away From each other's necks From each other's hate From each other's necks From each other's hate The thunder shook the valley The birds all screeched in fear I felt my blood was boiling I felt the end was near Apocalyptic winds blew Creatures drowned in mud And all the while I felt it The thunder in my blood And all the while I felt it The thunder in my blood
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Everything's relative and it's ok To the way I am feeling right now anyway The blood in the sky from the clouds of red dust A sight and a smell and a memory of trust Everything's relative and it's ok To the way I am feeling right now anyway Walking deserted dry bones in my feet A truth, an experience, a bitter defeat The blow can be softened by having hard times And persevering through to the other side Everything's relative and it's ok To the way I am feeling right now anyway The march of our time has now come to its end An endlessly withering loop of attempts And in our sickness we knelt and we puked And crawled into hollows beneath narrow chutes Everything's relative and it's ok To the way I am feeling right now anyway
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Do those stars Look OK on me tonight? Or do the lights Drown out the moonlight Do those raindrops Float OK when they hit the riverbed Like you hit me with a frying pan on the head Do those nights Just go on and on and on They're so long Like a 1970s prog rock song Do you eat Coz I don't think that I could cope Without getting up in the dead of night To eat an artichoke

about

Some songs I wrote and recorded at home in 2019. I used an iPad, two guitars (one acoustic, one electric), a charango, a 15watt amp and a handful of pedals.

The album is named after Govan Mbeki's book of the same title which you should read. Especially if you're South African (and also if you're not).

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released September 25, 2019

Written, performed, recorded, etc by Duncan Park

Artwork by William Randles who also named the song Behold! The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Cloaked In Sun

(Thanks Will for being a fantastic listening board, musical collaborator and artist)

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