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The Hustle is a Many​-​Splendoured Thing

by Slight

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1.
My Lantern 04:12
At the witches hour This is small space is shrinking Machinery of fate Is coming from my lantern At this awful hour There’s a cancer growing Medicine won’t fix What’s coming from my lantern A day away at least Will keep you from their hands Don’t move ’til morning breaks When you’re out there on the lam At the kitchen table There’s your left hand writing And a superstitious force That’s coming from my lantern Along the open window There’s a marquee scrolling What it means to not be there Locked up in my lantern A day away at least Will keep you from their hands Don’t move ’til morning breaks When you’re out there on the lam
2.
Major, what is that light that’s approaching us now? The instruments reading our altitude are all broken now I can’t hear myself think with that godawful sound I’d give up all that I’ve got to get back to the ground High in the atmosphere, weightless and spinning The ominous humming was printing the diagrams Methods of action progress imperceptibly Couldn’t communicate anything properly Decades after we flew in that tin-plated kite Animals still seem afraid when my temperature’s high Please sir don’t make me think of that beautiful light Receiving your letter has only encouraged my mind Shadowy messages, coded in cuneiform Ripe for the relaying, unforeseen consequence Partial translations of errors in judgement Our only agenda was onerous copying
3.
Toiling in windowless rooms you were high On lives that you’d caught passing you by In the streets below you’re eye was caught and held tight Holding machinery close to your eyes Turn the wheel and look through the sight The flip of a switch would channel the glow into chambers inside Metals and acids for pigment and dye Hands working lithe Making adjustments under cover of red light Fingers on eyes Somehow more than unknown, The enamel grew worn and bone dry Keeping your senses and gifts for yourself You were humble and quiet when it came to your life Ages ago you were there in your prime, hitting your stride Treat us to visions in silver and white What was not meant to be plainly in sight Is revealed to the world despite how you tried to bury behind Metals and acids for pigment and dye Hands working lithe Making adjustments under cover of red light Fingers on eyes Somehow more than unknown The enamel grew worn and bone dry
4.
Run 03:15
Away, away beside you I’m ever flowing Out in the fray Without our other waiting for an answer Wait out his haze We’re all in circles here Try not to wonder why and learn You’re right above me now Clear light all around All proud, invitations flowing in like rainbows Dark empty skies Pearls for the trough I’ve slung over my shoulder Satin and wine We’re all in circles here Try not to wonder why and learn You’re right above me, how Where’d the thread go now?

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released May 16, 2017

Recorded at Big Blue and The Plant
Engineered and mixed by Michael Hahn and Danji Buck-Moore
Written and Produced by Slight
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market
Slight is Michael Hahn, Danji Buck-Moore and Ryan White

Artwork by George Wilson
Design by Aaron McConomy and Slight

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Slight is a swirling psychedelic art pop project from Montreal.

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