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Half Life

from The Gramophone Suite by Antonymes

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Written by Ian M Hazeldine / Sarah Nixey.

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I’ve been cradling a secret,
swaddled in a white envelope,
half a century old.

The man in the photograph, you caught sight of.
The story I’ve never told.

A shade follows me,
haunting my dreams,
where demons and angels reside.
Shaming, unveiling,
they know every wave of the black wave,
that spawned my lie.

Do you recall the strangest of days,
when mother prayed I would go?

Told father to drive me far, far away,
where I gave up the secret alone.
Then part of my life was always missing.
A fire began to swell.

Like a dancing wave, came a force so great,
and smothered the flames of hell.

I’ve been living a half life, up until now,
longing for him to find me.
The man in the photograph, you caught sight of,
came to shore.

I’ve been cradling a secret,
swaddled in a white envelope,
half a century old.

The man in the photograph, you caught sight of,
came to shore.

© Sarah Nixey 2019

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from The Gramophone Suite, released October 6, 2023
Antonymes: electronic atmospheres, piano, string arrangements, synthesizer.
Sarah Nixey: spoken word.

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Antonymes Wales, UK

Antonymes music emerges from the adjustments and erasures where music expresses nothing but itself, from the relationship between continuity and repetition rather than of contract and interplay, from secrecy, from quietness, from pause, from thought, from emptiness, from time, from far off, from itself, from where it is set and where it is setting off to. ... more

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