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The Words

You put on your supersonic shoes and take your party pills
Maybe she’ll be there but you don’t dare
Ask her ex-boyfriend bill, he looks a little green around the gills
Through your inner-tinted glasses and the sentient gases
A pale pink bliss converts this purple verse to a piercing pain
There she is like a stain in the colorfield
Parentheses clog your larynx now, colliding somehow
Hurtling through the words

In your electromagnet hat and superconducting underpants
You’re looking pretty fly to catch her eye
And you radiocarbon-dated all your cufflinks
A clever souvenir of your maneuver last year
Clean unseen geodesic caffeine supports your flow
Grab her arm as she goes like a jellyfish
That begs to be squished, in a coral reef it’s pointless to speak
You’re just gurgling the words

You’re only fluids in a sac and she’s a glowing sun
In a cold ionosphere, as you’re sitting melting here
On the tofu sofa in the kitchen, she made your string beans glisten
With chemical subversion, unspeakable perversion
In the aftermath you interview yourself in the bathtub, in a foreign film
That’s so badly dubbed. From this naked place
Great voices come in a bitter code, up above everyone
You’re still searching for the words

credits

from Here in the Hurricane, released May 1, 2012
'The Words' credits

Anton Sword: voices, keyboards, programming
Kristin Mueller: drum kit
Julian Maile: guitars
Gina Marie Rodriguez: bass

Recorded by Damon Whittemore at ValveTone, NYC,
Pete Kohl at Beautyrock, NYC, and Anton Sword at Fugue State, NYC
Mixed by Carl Barc at the Distillery, Pete Kohl at Beautyrock, and Anton Sword at Fugue State
Written & Produced by Anton Sword
Mastered by Ingo Krauss at Candybomber, Berlin

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Anton Sword Brooklyn, New York

NYC-based songwriter Anton Sword leads an indie synth/ dance/ new wave project with a shifting band lineup. Sword has toured the Eastern USA twice and Europe 10 times, playing for a small but loyal following. One of his ambient compositions runs in a loop on permanent display in NYC's American Museum of Natural History, scoring the ‘Astro Bulletin’ in the lobby of the Rose Space Center. ... more

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