Name: Modern Times
Duration: P00H05M14S
Description: Written in New York 2012 when performing. Dedicated to the lightening shock man, D. Gwalia.

Modern Times

from Radio Beating Heart by MacGillivray

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Written in New York 2012 when performing. Dedicated to the lightening shock man, D. Gwalia.

lyrics

Walking in the city, calling in the streets, rotted neon roses, strychnine hookers and posers falling at your feet. Call it penitentiary the harm keepers zoo, floodlit bars are watching you, you'll come out blue, defaced in sweat, rolled in heat, pushing you, arm on arm the long stare stain, white balled girls and nicotine swells, the sailor's smell and I loved you. I loved you. Walking in the city, calling in the streets, rotted neon roses, strychnine hookers and posers falling at your feet. A burning beggars' kingdom, you see them seldom but you never meet. Walking in the city, tobacco's on heat. Those useless nights, slo-mo at the retrogresso, late graffiti open slow, I clutch your arm like a young guitar, watched your head in the back of the bar, unsteady in the heat. Shocks of lightening but the bar's still fighting to sell. Don't you stare there. Even angels seethe, even angels breathe, even angels seethe, black breath white polished eyes of city night. City night. Of city night.

credits

from Radio Beating Heart, released May 1, 2012
lyrics, arrangement and instrumentation MacGillivray
mixed by Random, Young, MacGillivray
produced by James Young

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MacGillivray Scotland, UK

MacGillivray is a Scottish poet and musician, signed to Antigen Records and 100 Acre Recordings and published by Bloodaxe, 'The Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless' 2016 and 'The Last Wolf of Scotland' (2nd edition) Redhen, Los Angeles. MacGillivray has performed with The Fall, Arlo Guthrie, Thurston Moore, Alan Moore, Shirley Collins and many others. ... more