Borrowers, Azure Carter's new song!
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http://www.alansondheim.org/borrower.mp3
Song by Azure Carter, flute (in Borrowers)
by myself.
Borrower is without flute.
They're variations, uncanny, recorded in fair conditions.
Please listen! perhaps this goes to the heart of things.
(Thanks to Luke Damrosch for revrev programming.)
BORROWERS texts and music again *
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* in case you missed it first time around
BORROWERS
On borrowed space/I'm making and making
I will lose this space/I will take my tiny house with me
Where will my tiny house go/where will my tiny house go
I am a snail in a shell/my shell is memory
My shell goes/where my memory follows
It was never my land/it was never my time
I'm making on borrowed time
I'm living on borrowed time
I'm making on borrowed time
I'm living on borrowed time
In my wandering/I have some tiny things
A form of capital/in a borrowed world
A political economy/to be sure
With borrowing/and small return
Oh where will/I set my tiny things
Oh where will/I set my tiny things
I'm making on borrowed time
I'm living on borrowed time
I'm making on borrowed time
I'm living on borrowed time
I shall walk/among my things
And my things/shall walk among me
May I be a thing/among things
And may things/be among me
A carapace/of things
New Jerusalems/and Shangri-las
I'm making on borrowed time
I'm living on borrowed time
I'm making on borrowed time
I'm living on borrowed time
Who will/preserve them now
Who will/keep them forever
Soon/I will lose this space
I will take/my tiny house with me
Where will/my tiny house go
Oh where will/my tiny house go
I'm making on borrowed time
I'm living on borrowed time
I'm making on borrowed time
I'm living on borrowed time
I'm making and making
I'm living and living
I'm making and making
I'm living and living
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My original Borrowers text:
'borrowers
i'm making on borrowed time.
i'm living on borrowed time.
on borrowed space i'm making and making.
soon i will lose this space and i will take my tiny house with me.
where will my tiny house go, where will my tiny house go.
i am a snail in a shell. my shell is memory.
my shell goes where my memory follows.
it never was my land or online time.
it was someone else, you were that someone else.
in my second life i have over 2000 objects in my inventory.
a for of capital in an indefinite economy.
a political economy to be sure, with borrowing and small return.
oh where will i set my little objects.
where will i pile them.
on my head i shall pile them, on my stomach i shall pile them.
i shall pile them on my left hand and my right.
i shall pile them on my left leg and my right.
on my left forearm and wrist.
on my right forearm and wrist.
before my eyes and above my skull.
beneath my left foot and beneath my right.
i shall walk among my objects and my objects shall walk among me.
may i be an object among objects and may objects be among me.
a carapace of objects new jerusalems and shangri-las.
a shield of entities breathing the vacuum of simulation.
they are my borrowers, they disappear with the flow of blood.
with the flow of blood halting, halting they disappear.
with the brain dying, cell by cell by cell, they disappear.
who will preserve them now, who will keep them forever?
who will preserve them now, who will keep them forever?'
You see the difference; this is about a virtual world, Second
Life, and Borrowers is about being alive; Azure has turned it
into something far more profound.
some comments -
' ~they are my borrowers, they disappear with the flow of blood.
they are my borrowers, they disappear with the flow of blood.
they are my borrowers, they disappear with the flow of blood.
borrowers end of the they are borrowers disappear flow blood.'
'names of others speaking my name, perhaps borrowing it in an
area in which "<pre>earthole where map opens to illumin immunim
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political economy be sure borrowing small return. borrowing
from, and resonating with, the other. body, forth. borrowing
from, resonating with, other. both image during the hiatus of
borrowing singing~ '
& burrowing among
