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Stitches

from Turn Back Metropolis by MAP 71

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The clean-up didn't stand a chance.
Tough kid faction in streets that never see summer.
The sky's a tragic shade of grey and the only silver lining is in your pocket on pay-day.
This town has edges like a blade. Perspective is a weapon here.
Over the other side of the world they live in circles, so what's vertigo anyway.
The triangle balanced on a point just has to remember to love.

On a keychain lucky charms
and a penknife
can't do no harm

'That'll need stitches,' he said.
'Well yeah,' she said, 'but I've always wanted a scar.'
Thinking in black 'n' white a jail bait street urchin with a split lip plays with ideologies and closet fancies.
Yeah, y'know there are ways of getting out of here.
Here's one dropping from his hand now, 'slip me a mickey boys,' let's see what his main squeeze can do.

On a keychain lucky charms
and a penknife
can't do no harm

No, fight it. Photo reality.
No time for confusion.
Small birds move so fast you think they're all in the mind.
But that one on the roof has seen it all forever.
Some houses are a throne for ravens.
Slow motion and fast forward in the same frame, like romance coming to life in the dev tray. Colour of carrion after a few from the bottle.

On a keychain lucky charms
and a penknife
can't do no harm

He doesn't believe in signs, not from her anyway.
He's just waiting for the signals to change.
A blurred electrical drone turns abrasive in focus like the sound of RUN AWAY NOW.

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from Turn Back Metropolis, released September 4, 2020

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MAP 71 Brighton, UK

Hypnotic drum rhythms build an environment for stories told by a restless observer. Ritual pulses, angular grooves and metallic clatter woven with a dialogue of Pagan surrealism, existential social comment and abstract sparse verse. Map 71 make haunting, darkly engaging music which is still danceable. Based in Brighton, Lisa Jayne (words/voice) and Andy Pyne (drums/synths) became Map 71 in 2013. ... more

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