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dub vendor

from lower London by ditchburn

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Far beyond the folk form I found the ultimate sound
The golden chord
The most merciless sound around

They’re living on my lyrics like a damn insect
Merciless

At the counter
Underneath the flyover
It’s written all over my body
This desire for the salty black plastic

The slates pinned like fresh fish to the
wall above the heads of the
dub vendors of Ladbroke Grove
who sold without speaking
tilting their eyes and nodding their heads
seeing right through me until
the half hour of initiation had passed
music at their pleasure
and you never heard it better
from another source ever after

Then an ear to my mouth
and my voice comes out pale and needy
“Glen Browne, Assack Lawn No. 1 Dub”

A tribute to the mighty sound makers
of the king’s town
Blow the words into my mouth
The gutter of words
A mine of shining coals
Burning fire in the throat
From the depths below
Run come turn the wheel
That spins the plate

Are you living in my ear?
A parasite eating on my blood
Hearing drums in my tongue

They’re living on my lyrics like a damn insect

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from lower London, released June 1, 2004

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