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The Bonfire Monologues

by Dan Geesin

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These are my animals These are my fruit trees This is my deliverance And these are my friends These are my mothers These are my brothers This is my energy And this is my farm These are my children This is my family These are myselves And this is my home These are my animals These are my fruit trees This is my deliverance And these are my friends
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Not who you think I am, Not what you want me to be Not who you think I was, But who I am, Who I am Not who you think I am, Not who you want me to be Not who you thought I was, But who I am Who I am Not why I thought I was, Not why I thought it was true Not why I am sitting here, Infront of you Infront of you Not from my garden, Not from the road home Not from the river, Where I was alone I was alone, I was alone All across the fields, There are scattered bones All across the fields, birds are eating toads Wind in the willows, Made with road kill Wind through the willows, Can be such a thrill Such a thrill such a thrill So I’m going to go now, but I’ll make a wish All of my life, just to be this You are a river, and I am a stone Somebody threw me and left me alone Left me alone, I’ll leave you alone Leave you alone, leave you alone We are alone
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Nimini Nye 01:28
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Spinning down and warming up again Wait for the light and then the sound Cross a field to pick it up again The blue ray kernel crash Follow the river to the stream Follow the stream to the spring In the valley the rain in falling To slove the blue ray kernel crash Under the field there’s a tunnel In the tunnel there’s a pipe In the pipe the blue is flowing Growing the blue ray kernel crash They want us to ly down and float down stream And not to worry and buy the dream To get their interface from their pilot scheme To roll over and stay still and do not scream Scrape your cheak against the peaks Try to detect another leak Try to push yourself through the net But it’s a crash so this is as far as you get Blue ray kernel crash
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You know that you can share anything with me You know that you can tell me what you want to be You know that I will carry you as far as I can see Right through the village tunnels up to the dying tree You know that you can share anything with me Looking through your window at us swinging from the tree Breaking off branches from the dying tree Then building a big fire as big as a city You know that you can share anything with me Do what you want, when you like then come in for your tea Throw stones, get stoned, sit alone on a road Think about the princes, and the kiss, and the toad So you know now you can tell me anything you want Tell me about your fires and setting fire to a dog Watch it run yelping, running for it’s life It was the dog of a neighbour who you really didn’t like So this is our little village with children and little wives With laddies stealing shot guns and children carrying knives With shock and horror at the masacre on the green By a man who was obsessed with everything, being clean So you know that you can share anything with me Do what you want, when you like then come in for your tea Breaking off branches from the dying tree Then build a big fire as big as a city
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My Shadow 02:32
I’ve been proding around in the surface I’ve been moving away from home So many places to visit And many ways to be alone Digging up rocks from the surface Can be more dangerous than using a gun So many places to hide these days From reflections from the sun I know the man who’s commnig over the hill Like the rising of the moon I’m going to have to hide in the surface Because I don’t want to see him soon Hiding might be seen as running But running is to somewhere else Under a rock in my garden Behind a book that was left on the shelf Please just give me some time To take another breath Please just give me some time To take a little rest Clinging to the carpet and watch The movement of the trees I’m going to run away from my shadow Because it doesn’t look like me at all
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Looking at the trees and the pavement Looking at a bag in the hedge Looking at the sky and the branches There’s a man in the bag and he’s dead I went to the shops at lunchtime I went to the shops with a friend They told me they’re leaving their lover They told me their life should end I’m going to sit on the floor by the window I’m going to sit on a bench in the park There’s a man with a gun and he’s running He’s running and leaving his mark Bang bang, leave your lover Bang bang, lock your door Bang bang, moving faster Bang bang, clean your floors I know I can run faster than you now I can even run faster than me Running now faster forever Running is fun and it’s free Get ready to run, get ready to run, get ready to run Get ready to run and put on your shoes Get ready to run, get ready to run, get ready to run Get ready to run and put on your shoes
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The Village 02:16
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Ikea 02:13
Well I think I want to go to Ikea Well I think I want to walk in the maze Well I think I want to go to Ikea Well I think I want to return in a daze Well I think I want to choose from the choices Build an individual autonomous home Be calmed by the colours and the difference of textures Fall asleep in the comfort that I’m not alone It’s blue and yellow on the out side if you mix it it’s green The colours of the plants that used to be seen Mashed up pressed together with a glue I can’t see One hundred ways to sit down, oh lucky me Well I think I want to go to Ikea Well I think I want to walk in the maze Well I think I want to go to Ikea Well I think I want to return in a daze For the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, more useful things I’m going to jump through the hoop and the fiery ring To solve the problems that weren’t problems, that I couldn’t see I brought lots of their stuff so they’re happy with me Well I think I want to go to Ikea Well I think I want to walk in the maze Well I think I want to go to Ikea Well I think I want to return in a daze
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We are only here for a little while That’s why I’m going to sit here And try and make you smile It’s not just another Day may be all that we’ve got That’s why the stillness in the house reminds me a lot Of the people and the places and all we have seen Of all we’ve become and all we have been I am very happy with you I am very happy with you We are only here for a little while That’s why I’m going to sit here And try and make you smile But everybody wants to be somebody else As long as that somebody is not himself Not my friends or neighbors or what I have seen Not what I‘ve imagined or what I will dream Because I am very happy with you Because I am very happy with you We are only here for a little while That’s why I’m going to sit here And try and make you smile Because I am very happy with you Because I am very happy with you
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There is a collection of me in the sand by the sea We’ve been sent here to crush sea shells and eat salt for our Tea Got to Crawl before you can walk before you can fly like a Bird The Black flies on the dead Fish said that’s what they had heard But I’m crawling anyway I’m crawling anyway Scrape your face in the sand is like defoliate cream With your face down and drowning is not a pleasant dream Run as fast as you can when you’ve got no legs Keep strong, don’t stay long and keep eating your eggs And keep away from the man with the big black boots Keep away from the man with the big black boots Deflating quite slowly whilest you look upon The foam that was squeezed out like a snail moving along Anchored to the floor and torn by the waves Blown by the wind that says Jesus saves I’m crawling any way I’m crawling any way
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She’s with her friends in her room make-up in hand They all start to laugh as they try to stand on high-heels Into the car, they smell like flowers Cut from the tropics in the last few hours I say I’ll pick them up at 10 O’clock sharp There is nothing I can do because it’s all the same There is nothing I can do because it’s like a train The colours have changed and so have the parts In this story of life this is what we call a new start So this is what the kids are doing nowadays in the Disco So this is what the kids are doing nowadays in the Disco They brought tickets to stand, at the side of the room Watching the boys and starting to swoon over their hair gel Move into the middle now they’re starting to dance Trying out the tricks they picked up from the television It’s 9 O’clock and the slow dance has come Getting picked out is the most fun that they’ve had all evening They’re kissing hello and pushing goodbye sitting in the corner and starting to cry Asking their friends to get in touch with the other connections through a sister or maybe a brother until they are outside So this is what the kids are doing nowadays in the Disco So this is what the kids are doing nowadays in the Disco I don’t belive a word of what she said to me Mud on her hands and blood on her knees on her knees Looking at the faces of her friends I know that this ins’t the end it’s the beginning There is nothing I can do because it’s all the same There is nothing I can do because it’s like a train The colours have changed and so have the parts In this story of life this is what we call, a new start So this is what the kids are doing nowadays in the Disco So this is what the kids are doing nowadays in the Disco
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fall in love like a prince with a princess fall in love just like you fall in love in perfect surroundings fall in love and that it be true live my life like a prince with his princess live my life just with you But I am bitter and I am helpless I‘m an Ogre singing Pixie tunes The girl’s got a ship and the ship is a tug boat She’s likes to plough through the streets at night She leaves a trail like a snail with no shell She turns green and yellow under the light fall in love like a prince with a princess fall in love just like you fall in love in perfect surroundings fall in love and that it be true My love is a bucket and it’s full of sun shine My love is as strange as a dying cloud My love looks like something I found in my garden My love is quite and sometimes loud fall in love like a prince with a princess fall in love just like you fall in love in perfect surroundings fall in love and that it be true I made this hat and I’m going to wear it I made this hat from thing in my bag I made this hat from the skins of my dreaming I made this hat when I was sad fall in love like a prince with a princess fall in love just like you fall in love in perfect surroundings fall in love and that it be true
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Away 02:28
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Part Of Me 02:02
Part of me drowned in the ocean Part of me fell from the tree Part of me got left by the roadside Part of me will never be free Part of me burns on the fire Part of me got dropped on the ground Part of me hangs onto the fictions Knowing I will never be found I thought I had a boat that was sailing I thought I’d built a house in a tree I thought I was driving to find you But I got lost inside reflections of me I blame all of your perfect opinions I blame everything I didn’t do I blame all of my life and my journey I blame everything I think is true Here I am and I’m sitting beside you Here I am and I’m still wandering why Why my boat is a house and it’s sailing Over all of the tears that I cry Part of me drowned in my ocean Part of me hangs from the tree Part of me clings to the roadside Part of me will never be free Part of me drowned in the ocean Part of me fell from the tree Part of me got left by the roadside Part of me will never be free
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Breath 01:16
Breath in the air Walk on the ground Wiggle your toes in the sand Because this water has brought us this land Hold a stone in your palm Feel the weight of the ground It’s like listening to the sea And feel it breathing just like me I’m going to sit here and look at the sun Look at ships and the way it began Watch the birds go fishing in teams Go with the flow but don’t swim in the stream Breath in the air
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Google It Up 01:57
What’s the meaning, Huh? What’s the meaning of life What’s the meaning, Huh? What’s the meaning of life I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up Amazon said it is the things that are told Bol dot com said it is the things that are sold I don’t know where it can be found But on google there’s a swamp of pictures and sound It’s on Google, Huh? I’m going to google it up It’s on Google, Huh? I’m going to google it up I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up I know that birds and planes they like to fly I know moles in holes, they like to lie Polluting the rivers and making blue mud Making purple flowers with yellow buds It’s on Google, Huh? Go and Google it up It’s on Google, Huh? Go and Google it up I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up On a walk one day, with out my phone I looked at insects dancing on their own I saw the clouds were walking through the sky Mr mole is his hole whole, he looked quite shy What’s the meaning, Huh? What’s the meaning of life What’s the meaning, Huh? What’s the meaning of life I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up
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Long Walk 00:34

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These recordings have been made possible by the Mondriaan Fund.

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released December 11, 2016

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OF SOUND began in 2015 when Dan started burning his pianos.
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