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After the Rain Came In

from Abandoning Noble Goals by Kiran Leonard

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in around 2006 or 2007 somebody told me that the world was going to end in december 2012, and for all of the years following i was obsessed with the claim (though not believing it to be true). this song is specifically about the french town of burgarach, that for reasons completely disconnected from mayan scripture was singled out (on a web forum probably) as the only place on earth that would survive the end times. as a result, this tiny village with a population of a few hundred was flooded with a huge number of conspiracy theorists. one was observed as being sat in a rubber dinghy in the middle of a field, awaiting predicted floods.

(song is a post-script to 'the end times', from #2)

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under ice
hysterics entice
all the build up to the end
of life
was sensual
bustling around

i was knocked down a flight
when you caught me out that night
sat motionless in the dinghy

and unless calendars have failed us
our sons await a century
and even symbols
and deflated temples
rot at the

surface; the upwards curve

in mesoamerica
the tears are real
we begin
the upwards curve

and i didn't know
what bishop said
it recedes and then catches
on a fragment of fate
and half a pillar of hate

twenty-four years too late!

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from Abandoning Noble Goals, released July 31, 2015

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