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Absent the Memory

Is this my face? I can't remember. Identity at once dismembered.
Submit to strain, submit to fracture. Is this a blight or freedoms rapture.

I wash these hands you say hold power over the world, over the hour.
And tempted thus, to find the answer amongst the cells, amidst the cancer.

(C) I am not who I used to be.
Behold the void that once was me: A shell bereft of memory.

In some grey void without an exit a nameless ghost, blind and faceless,
contorts and claws and seeks sensation... I feel its need, determination.

(C) I can't be blamed for what I am:
a fading figure of a man subject to some buried demand.

Absent the memory...if I were a whole man...
would that I, could that I...I'd never let it happen.

Unlock the gates that bar the demon, release the beast that craves its freedom.
Some rough beast, its mere breath hateful. I fall into a place so fatal.

(C) I am not who I used to be.
Behold the void that once was me: A shell bereft of memory.
I can't be blamed for what I am:
a fading figure of a man subject to some buried demand...with the world's blood staining my hands.

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from Soft War, released February 19, 2008
Words-John
Music-Greg
Greg-Guitars.
John-Vox, Bass, Keys, Fake Drums.

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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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