New track: Five-story Walk-up
Excerpts echo on the landing
Briefly tangle as they start to fade awayBehind the Medecos and deadbolts
Broken math informs the calculus at playA secret carnival of shifting acts
The penny-fused ambitions on displayLean back off the rooftop just to follow
Constellations for another ageFall on to the Paris night-boat singing,
burning up until you hit the stageAs some improbable magician
Conjuring past yet another stunning cageDefer the accidental,
Drive the water from the shore
Solitude of will deforms
Mind the circle of the blast
And incinerate the pastDiscarded or collected
On discovery all vain
While passion still performs
To orchestrate the whole
Hearts humming with one soulEmbracing in the passing
All permission but a veil
We are dancing through the storms
Shadows on the dune
Throwing roses at the moonIntrospection as reveal
Or so we tell ourselves
We burn the map in placeDo we formulate the real
Or do we sell ourselves?
As fiction finds the spaceBut we invent ourselves again
Embrace the maximum
Uproot the lotus treeCorrode sedition’s last refrain
And want the maximum
We want the R & DOn step along the marble stairs
In all the promising
With every story foundWhen do we recreate the real
How do we sell ourselves?
A fiction found and boundBut we invent ourselves again
Embrace the maximum
And burn the lotus treeCorrode sedition’s last refrain
We want the maximum
It’s all R & D
Produced, arranged, composed, and performed by James Britt