Name: Darkness, Death & Deep Denial
Duration: P00H04M10S
Description: The very first song I wrote in Berlin, this. Honestly, though, most of it was finished in Cambridge, on the beloved Silberman, the "Charlie Brown Christmas tree of pianos." I've tried to re-record this one - it was almost a Three Minute Tease tune - but this low-rent demo IS the song. Unable to make it sound much better, I went in the other direction and ran it through a few Dumb Trash filters.

Darkness, Death & Deep Denial

from Polynormal AB by Anton Barbeau

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The very first song I wrote in Berlin, this. Honestly, though, most of it was finished in Cambridge, on the beloved Silberman, the "Charlie Brown Christmas tree of pianos." I've tried to re-record this one - it was almost a Three Minute Tease tune - but this low-rent demo IS the song. Unable to make it sound much better, I went in the other direction and ran it through a few Dumb Trash filters.

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(She entered the room weeping, on legs that were not her own…)

Darkness, death and deep denial
Fake that smile, break those eggs
The end has surely come - have you?
Darkness, death and deep denial
Walk a mile, broken leg
A photograph of your new shoe
Remember when you needed two?

Those days are gone and so are you
You faded fast, what did you do?
You sold your soul to sing with Su - who?

Darkness, death and devastation
Clouds are bursting, toads are raining down upon your hit parade
Jesu, Joy of Claude Debussy
Bela Bartok, Oakland Zoo
A garden full of songbirds, too
You popped the cage and out they flew

Now here’s your chance to make amends
Pick up the phone ring up your friends
Tell them you finally reached the end of your ego

There ain’t no easy way to give what I have not
The only bread I know is that which I call brot
Memory of me, baked to a tee

Darkness, death and dislocation
Fornication
Dreams are coming true and now you’re screwed
Darkness, death and disappointment
Please anoint my empty head
And take me to bed
Sleep me beside you, warm hands will guide you

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from Polynormal AB, released November 24, 2023

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Anton Barbeau Berlin, Germany

Anton Barbeau plays "pre-apocalyptic psychedelic pop." He's a Taurus, born in Sacramento and now living by a canal in Berlin. He's made something like 30 albums and has worked with members of XTC, The Soft Boys, the Bevis Frond, Cake, the Loud Family, Elf Power and
the Corner Laughers. Julian Cope got him stoned in Croydon once. His new album, Manbird, ain't bad at all. ... more

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