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Washing My Window

from Polynormal AB by Anton Barbeau

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Terrible fear of heights I've got. Living for 9 years on the top floor of our Berlin flat was tricksy! I'd sneak out onto the balcony to smoke pot, but culd never stay longer than a few minutes without feeling wobbly, so, keeping my center of gravity low, I'd quickly/slowly scuttle back inside. I did love that balcony, though. You can see our strawberry plant... we'd manage 2 or 3 tiny, tasty strawbs a year.

This song was written and recorded in the Snaderstrasse flat. Some songs start one place and end up elsewhere, but the arrnagement for the track (Jazz bass, Logic Drummer, Prophet 6 and Seagull 12) is all gear that lived in Berlin.

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Washing My Windows

He took a fall from a high place
He landed way down low
The angels came to collect his face
There was no pain, he did not know

Oh… washing my window

Handed a pen and forms to sign
He did not understand
A simple X on a dotted line
Followed a guided hand
The voices rose in ecstasy
Give him a minute
Try humming Elgar’s Elegy
Maybe he’ll get it…
No…

Where did my window
Where did my window
Where did my window go…?

He took a call on a white phone
The voice he recognised
What would you like on your tombstone?
A side of curly fries to go?
Sarcasm finally turned the light bulb on
So I was here and now I’m gone…
But I was just…

Oh… washing my window

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from Polynormal AB, released November 24, 2023
AB - Jazz bass, Prophet 6, Seagull 12.

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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.
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