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The Dancing Plague
06:02
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History is full of plagues, they come and go in waves and waves
But the strangest one there's ever been was Strasbourg in 1518
A woman there began to dance, a small crowd fell into her trance
They couldn't stop, they tried and tried, the rhythm would just not subside
In a feverish malaise, those people danced for days and days
Soon hundreds moved in unison, entranced, immune to all reason
Through weeks and months, through night and day, their flesh began to waste away
Strangers prayed and loved ones wailed, doctors tried to help and failed
The numbers grew, the virus spread, the dance soon claimed its first few dead
The people brought musicians in, to draw the dance out from within
The city built a wooden stage, and night and day the music played
But in trying to lift the curse, they spread it round, they made it worse
Those infectious melodies increased the spread of the disease
Toxic ergot fungal spores, growing through the rye grain stores
Are a documented cause of hallucinations and tremors
Victims would be seized by mania, exhibiting bizarre behavior
Flailing limbs and muscle spasms, contagious enthusiasm
But that does not explain it all
Now we can read page after page on theories of cultural contagion
Was it some big psychogenic behavioral epidemic
Or was it a poison spider bite, or some secret pagan rite,
Or a curse sent down to claim the young from St. Vitus or St. John
Well, we may never know for sure
They never found a cause or cure, so there's no way we can be sure
That one day in a city street, our heaving pulsing limbs won't meet
With sweaty brows and heavy breath, as we all dance ourselves to death
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Streaks of Light
03:29
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my first new years eve away from parties and crowds
was on an open hill, beneath a blanket of clouds
the valley was dark, we cast a cigarette glow
there was no music playing, there was no firework show
but somehow right on midnight, yeah, bang on cue
a roll of thunder cracked, just as the year was through
a web of lightning streaks tore through the big black sky
it was more beautiful than every firework combined
the furthest I've ever been from artificial light
on an island in the timor sea, on a beach on a clear night
& I had no idea that there were so many stars
or just how constantly they're raining down upon us
every few seconds, another gold streak of light
from an incandescent meteorite
& we wondered was it some special phenomenon
of are they always there & we just can't see them
I once heard a fact that some shooting stars
are the falling turds of astronauts
& I know it sounds quite unromantic to hear
but in a way it kind-of makes sense, they've got to go somewhere
well it's a humbling sight, that fierce beauty and power
of an electrical storm or a meteor shower
& it's everyone's right to experience it
& to make a wish upon a falling shit
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soundfossil Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Bath-Core / Apocalypse Muzak / Titanic-Foyer Glam-Folk / Adult Nonfiction
We like dumb loud
street-parades & stretching in the sun. We like the way the firelight bounces off the floorboards and sparkles through your whiskey-glass. We want to entertain you but not too much cos boredom builds character.
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