Squirm

from BANG BANG by GREAT JOY

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At first the light discovers weakness
in the curtains I have nailed to the wall,
[eyelids release] and I am certain
I can answer to the call.
Although i'm beached upon polluted shores
I whisper complex overtures
composed as themes to secret wars on entropy,
I squirm.

I drink my cup of drugs,
tie my boots at the bottom of the hill
(which does not bludgeon my resolve
but rather fortifies my will)
I try to rake the leaves consistantly
learn to accept the mystery
yearn to bloom out of the misery

and find my soul
and feel its form
and then grab hold
inside this storm
and don't stop moving
keep unfolding
it's not losing
I am golden
I am now

Where nothing can cut me down
and nothing can fell me
and nothing to which I am bound
and no one can sell me shit

You know I squirm like a fish on the shoreline
turn from the man getting rich on the poor
learn from the rube in the que to the berghein
only to be burned like that at the door,
like: "what's that?"

A life devoid of crests
but to avoid a trough
is just a line
I will not go out flat, i'll go to bat
while haning from the vine
I never wait around a waiting place
nor rat around a rodent race
I dance my way through time and space

to find my soul
and feel its form
and then grab hold
inside this storm
and don't stop moving
keep unfolding
it's not losing
I am golden
I am now

Where nothing can cut me down
and nothing can fell me
and nothing to which I am bound
and no one can sell me shit

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from BANG BANG, released February 25, 2022

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GREAT JOY Amsterdam, Netherlands

Erratic-melodic catharsis, barbaric yawping and introspective wonk-punk: Great Joy goes bang-bang in spite of entropy.

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Apr 19

OCCII

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Apr 20

De Zwarte Ruiter

The Hague, Netherlands
Apr 25

V11

Rotterdam, Netherlands

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