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Turn Back Metropolis

from Turn Back Metropolis by MAP 71

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Turn back metropolis
casting wrong shadows
like street fighting lovers
in the half light
of a house of correction
a replica
disguised as himself
says he really means it
this time
and other classy crescendos
hung up on time
as a deadlock
sense apparatus
slips into his life
damage for sale

Turn back metropolis
shape shifter idols
naked as framework
blink from a tower block
sold us as heaven
search lights
imagine demons
in symbolic dreamers
one side going nowhere
the other writes the script
and opens another door
to another step
to another bridge
to another stage
don’t look down

Turn back metropolis
freeze instinct on impact
reflex
now there’s nothing
but a cling clang image
flashing from
fire escapes
to sedation cells
words on the wall
as a flock of black butterflies
rise to escape
no one believed they are real
sparks from their wings
and scrape of metal
slash at the backdrops

Turn back metropolis
negative nerve splash
someone takes the blame
for a miracle
no one wanted
the horizon’s a strip light
on a broken glass river
weekenders
grab at seduction
grown in a lab
as cheerleaders
of atomiser passions
turn on a riot
in a dead end street
trying to walk away
Turn back metropolis
in the distance
the road’s a narrow stripe
of stereotypes
reality drags
someone shouts party
bam-a-lam box
militant pzazz
in the clone palace
press emotion on automatic
now she has a crush
on a duplicating machine
and the face
of a generation
in uniform

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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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