Name: AD/BC
Duration: P00H04M31S
Description: Clad in the brickwork ‘bread’ of several poor Georgian labourers, Elroy respectfully chronicles the selected misfortunes of a deep-frozen Siberian.

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from 4 x 4 (The Four EPs) by His Son Elroy

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Clad in the brickwork ‘bread’ of several poor Georgian labourers, Elroy respectfully chronicles the selected misfortunes of a deep-frozen Siberian.

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A small, richly clad mammal pushes a metallic utensil into my flesh, and takes it into his mouth
Thirty times around
And spat back out

Orange-hair, rimmed with gold is placed at arms length (or so I’m told)
Falling into a water-logged pit was bad luck
Twenty thousand years of bad luck, till worse;
I’m discovered again…

Cut, removed, from my crystal home
Hoisted, manhandled, into the air
To breathe again

Peeling back the orange-lawn
A diorama is revealed
Around the slab a mote of veg drifts gentle in the currents of a yellow river

In my honour the streets are thronged
The people are joyous; they laugh in song

A tuft of hair hangs loose on the breeze
And it feels real, really good

But oh no, what is this?
A team of scientists and chefs

In the night they do things to me of which I cannot bear to say… They slit me and cut me, and some take slithers on one side, in shallow pans I’m sautéed in goat and yaks butter and wine

In the daytime they come to me and they do things I cannot bear to say… On the other side of the room, a group of scientists discuss and disgust me, paring me with acid and flame and alcohol

While I’m in pieces

I huff and puff but all that’s left is husk and tusk and I’m trapped again

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from 4 x 4 (The Four EPs), released January 12, 2003
from Table to Grave

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