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Shriveled Tongues

from Anodyne (EP) by Alexander Dove

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Out of all the speakers on this album, this fellow has the least to say about himself. He's more interested in giving away his advice to you, gentle listener. This is because he's less of a character, more of a philosophical mouthpiece.
His answer to the difficulties of life? Music. What sort of music is it he talks about in the last verse, with this power to unite the body, mind, and soul? Apparently, based on what comes right after, it's dubstep-inflected 8-bit in 5/4 time, quoting a popular Protestant hymn on a crude approximation of a fiddle.
I think my strange musical tendencies have jumped the shark.

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Trading frankincense for gold,
trading self for self, you find
nothing but an endless grind,
nothing but an endless cold.

While you barter fear for fear,
dividing joys among yourselves,
hymnals left to die on shelves
sing music that the dead can hear.

Voices gibber as the noose
drains the air from songless lungs,
while the never-silent tongues
shrivel up from lack of use.

There upon a yellow page
bound by an unbroken spine
lurks the longed-for anodyne
that has the power to assuage,

the music that can bring the soul
from its hidden place to bind,
with the body and the mind,
into an unbroken whole.

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from Anodyne (EP), released June 2, 2011

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Alexander Dove Chicago, Illinois

Alexander Dove is a songwriter, poet, and composer, who also plays in the traditional Celtic folk group Dòrain. Alexander Dove is used for more-or-less solo or self-directed work, regardless of genre. Published writings are under the name Alexander Dove Lempke. ... more

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