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Heraclitus Twice

from Ancient History, Vol. 3 by tim nelson

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Recorded on a Fostex X15 four-track and mixed to a Pioneer boombox in Sinop, Turkey, Spring, 1990.

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Pulse and flow, the repetition, change
Arranged and turning in an open space,
Meters reading strange.
Crashing waves upon a shore
That knows no time,
A grain of sand, an asteroid,
A picture in a mind.
Heraclitus teaches me,
Down in the river, twice
And continuity is just
A tumble of the dice.
In crowds we swarm
Like lemmings
In a rush towards the shore. Once
One has seen all there's to be seen
Can one be seen once more?
In photographs, the image,
Flash past between the light,
The flash and the glass of lenses
Magnify, pragmatic, I test the waters
And the senses...
Overlooked and undercooked,
Half-baked and long forgotten,
She's dropped the jar of caviar
And discovered it was rotten.
What will the future hold for me
Now that the past has passed?
I look around and try to see
Where it had gone so fast.
Nothing lasts but this afternoon
Is moving kind of slow.
I don't know, why don't you show
Me the buffalo robe? In the tepee in the
Morning, fields of corn, but the
Horns of passing traffic blast the
Indians from my dream and the
Green fields turn to gray,
Concrete decay, urban sprawl,
That's all, that's all and the tall
Find out it's raining first.
Could be worse, I call the nurse
For comfort from some pain.
The symptoms are not physical
But present all the same, and
Heraclitus, twice removed, insists
There's been a change, and
When I ask him what, he repeats
Himself and says it once again, and
When I ask him what, he repeats
Himself and says it once again
But it's just not the same...
It's just not the same...

(1990 Nimyonta Music)

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from Ancient History, Vol. 3, released May 3, 2021
Words, music, cheesy Yamaha PSR-6 synthesizer, even cheesier Yamaha DD-5 drum machine, Washburn Monterey acoustic/electric guitar, vocals: Timothy Nelson

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tim nelson Barrington, New Hampshire

Tim Nelson is a film composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist session musician/producer. He has since 2007 been a frequent collaborator with award-winning filmmakers/animators the Quay Brothers.

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