Okay so… i have decided to knock the monkey idea on the head. It’s all a bit… confusing.
ANYWHO, i have been listening to some spoken word poetry that has inspired my greatly to write my own piece!! HOORAY finally we have words!
and with many thanks to the following artists who have creatively shook my brain:
ANDREA GIBSON
Andrea Gibson – Maybe I Need You | Sofar New York (2015)
I mean… how beautifully moving. Music to accompany poetry. And raw poetry at that, a story, a feeling… so simple. It is direct.
Andrea Gibson – Panic Button Collector (2014)
Andrea Gibson – I Do (Studio Version) (2011)
I really don’t have a lot to say about her work besides absolutely inspiring and compelling and completely up my street!
There are so many poems by her that have inspired me, unfortunately i cannot seem to attach the file / poem ‘Puff the magic dragon’!! This is terribly upsetting but you can access it on Spotify if you wish to listen to my main influence! I will relay some lyrics…
‘Do you remember believing in something more than this…
Do you remember believing.
This morning i woke to the sound of my whole life leaving, beneath the ding of my alarm clock…
a little black box that wakes me every morning with the stop fucking dreaming, stop fucking dreaming, STOP FUCKING DREAMING…
and i sat up and thought my god, when did we all stop believing?
cos 20 years ago you never could have told me that story was true… that dragons live forever but not little girls and boys that painted rings and giants wings make way for other things like student loans and pap smears and rent and lunch breaks and beer, GOD IM SO TIRED OF BEER i wanna be high again, like we were when we were five.
So i say, we track down the train that drove all the madness away. Start living our lives instead of just writing about them, standing around on stages and shouting about them “Hey Andrea wanna go on a hike?” “no no sorry i’d rather stay home and type metaphors about mountains and trees under the fluorescence of my computer screen”
JESUS CHRIST I USED TO BE A UNICORN you should’ve seen me fly! why cant we be unicorns now? …
See we, need to re-mother our natures see, stop just punching and punching the clock or one day the tick-tock of our lives are gonna stop and we’ll have no wings to show for it. So tell me, tomorrow, when your alarm clock wakes you to another tired morning and you can hear beneath the pound the sound of its whole life leaving,
what are you gonna choose to believe in.”
I want to include the ‘STOP FUCKING DREAMING’ aspect somewhere in my piece and i want to express how my brain is constantly away with the fairies, wishing we were five again, wishing there was more to this life. Because, that is me. That is exactly how i feel. So what i have done is begun to write down whatever comes to my mind as i sit and think now, about what is bothering me. Using the influence from each poem above, my first spoken word poem will be entered in my next blog post. Stay tuned!
Andrea Gibson – Maybe I Need You | Sofar New York (2015) Youtube video added by Sofar Sounds. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g20xeqjt6bA
Andrea Gibson – I Do (Studio Version) (2011) Youtube Video added by Jonah Harper. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yWmGuTU34g
Andrea Gibson – Panic Button Collector (2014) Youtube Video added by E Mcburney. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOS2ohwDpyA