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On Blood And Breathing feat. Anthony Anaxagorou & AMYRA

from Boat Building by Tongue Fu

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lyrics

Anthony: My friend, go visit the tombs,
the cenotaphs, the graves and find
the wind the ashes look for rebirth in.
Find release in giving,
the OK with not knowing,
let the rain keep the slug safe,
burn jackets when unsure or unwise.
I once knew a man who tried to
disassemble his shadow.
He’s probably still there
looking for the tools,
looking to step out of his catastrophe.


Amyra: Sometimes I feel like a star
watching all of my kin die
before my eyes,
somehow graceful,
somehow beautiful,
somehow constant.

The scarcity of our time together
makes me want to love you more,
makes me want to miss every siren and memory,
makes me want to have that harmony,
harmony looks like colours becoming,
like a butterfly coming from a barren womb.
The earth rejuvenates like the liver
and consumes all things with care.

Anthony: What does it mean to breathe?
To take a breath
like music before it’s played,
sound before it’s birthed by melody,
to breathe,
the arithmetic of blood,
electric body of hair and air,
to trust, to regulate whatever hunts peace,
to sleep in the gentle science of warmth.
Breathe out and into this cavernous boon.
The universe is one giant lung,
one capillary holding everything in,
one giant ending.


Amyra: I wanted to know where God lived.
I used to love peaches because the idea
of something so sweet going rotten made
me believe in miracles. Just how simple
an angelic song can rise trauma from the kindest eyes
and none of us will have time
to witness them leave the room.
Do you think we are way up,
way up somewhere?
Away, away from other living things
in a universe that
sometimes I believe.
Sometimes I believe
I am the daughter,
the innocent one.

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from Boat Building, released November 27, 2020

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Tongue Fu Bristol, UK

For over a decade Tongue Fu have built a cult following at their live shows where people expect the unexpected. Writer, musician and founder, Chris Redmond, invites poets, comedians, storytellers and rappers to take risks, re-working material live with improvised soundtracks from fleet footed, genre-crunching musicians.

Previous collaborators include Kate Tempest, Soweto Kinch and Akala. ... more

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