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Testo Steady Job - Ivor Cutler

Testo della canzone Steady Job (Ivor Cutler), tratta dall'album The Collection 1959-1961

The Hollow Men

A penny for the old guy

We are the hollow men

We are the stuffed men, leaning together, headpiece filled with straw

Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together

Are quiet and meaningless as wind in dry grass

Or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without color

Paralyzed force, gesture without motion

Those who have crossed with direct eyes to death's

Other kingdom remember us, if at all, not as lost violent

Souls, but only as the hollow men, the stuffed men

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams, in death's

Dream kingdom, these do not appear

There, the eyes are sunlight on a broken column

There is a tree swinging, and voices are in the wind

Singing, more distant and more solemn than a fading star

Let me be no nearer in death's dream kingdom

Let me also wear such deliberate disguises, rat's coat, crow's

Skin, crossed staves in a field, behaving as the wind behaves

No nearer

Not that final meeting in the twilight kingdom

This is the dead land

This is cactus land

Here the stone images are raised

Here they receive the supplication of a dead

Man's hand under the twinkle of a fading star

Is it like this in death's other kingdom?

Waking alone at the hour when we are trembling with tenderness?

Lips that would kiss form prayers to broken stone

The eyes are not here

There are no eyes here in this valley of dying stars, in

This hollow valley, this broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places, we grope together and

Avoid speech, gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless unless the eyes reappear as the perpetual star, multifoliate

Rows of death's twilight kingdom, the hope only of empty men

Here we go round the prickly pear, prickly pear, prickly pear

Here we go round the prickly pear at 5 o'clock in the morning

Between the idea and the reality, between

The motion and the act, falls the shadow

For thine is the kingdom

Between the conception and the creation, between

The emotion and the response, falls the shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the

Existence, between the essence and the dissent, falls the shadow

For thine is the kingdom

For thine is...

Life is...

For thine is the...

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang, but a whimper

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Writer(s): Ivor Cutler
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