Gothique (Reading Angela Carter)

from Into the East by Not for Pussies

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We have a habit of being inspired to write songs by art - often great authors ("And so it goes" ["Remnant & Aftershocks"] - Kurt Vonnegut; "Mexico" ["Binary"] - Cormac McCarthy; "Time is short" ["Demon"] - Andrew Sean Greer). A new biography of Angela Carter had stimulated the Doc to re-read her novels and short story collections. The world she creates and characters she describes inspired this dark piece.

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Gothique

The foster child of Tigresses
Is steaming over Russian Steppes,
Careering over mountain tracks
in terror of the lupine pack

She remember everything
Remembers it so perfectly
The souvenirs of old Japan
The Junks on the South China Sea

Welcome to the bestial room
Some call this room “the Sphere of Spheres”
You enter for your life’s desires
But find inside your fear of fears

I always knew I’d die of love
Disguises offered no defence
My tainted lover
murdered me without pretence

So like these fables, this real life
No happy ending for the teller
nor the hero, as he fails

Living in a magic toyshop
Leda meets her clockwork swan
-a nightmare with a fiery ending
So few survive to meet the dawn

High amongst the cloudy uplands
there’s no brightness in the air
for the Executioner’s daughter.
Time suspended like the rain.

She always knew she’d die of love
~To think otherwise was foolish
No solace for her broken heart
Just echoes of reality
No fortune, fame or glory
only death …

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from Into the East, released February 2, 2019
Brian Kidd: Spoken vocal (verse). guitars, guitar synthesizers, ebows; synthbass sequencer programming; drumbox programming; percussion
Janette Kidd: Bass guitar; Lead vocal (chorus), harmony vocals

Many thanks to Mags Nisbet-Macfarlane for the beautiful illustration.

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Not for Pussies Perth, UK

Not for Pussies came into being in 2008, although Brian and Janette Kidd have been together - and playing music together (and with others) for much, much longer.
We felt we're into an era in our lives where Bette Davis' quote about getting older (it's "not for pussies") felt very apt - and our music reflects this - and the experience of having lived a little! ...
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