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Author: jbro28

A HARDCORE SYMPHONY

79a Pitfield St, London N1 6BT

Saturday 19th October 6pm and on into the month 24hrs on the street

DO YOU STILL KNOW THE SCORE?

This new sound rises and rises day by night in my ears

The notes don’t make sense and the rhythm is all out of step

The melody is absent chords clash the tone is all wrong

And yet the hardcore symphony just builds and builds

Filling the city with adrenaline and my heart with unstoppable wonder

I can’t stop listening, trying to make sense, hoping I will tune in

And out on the streets all previous imagery crumbles

Advertising hoardings disintegrate, street signs disappear

As if we all know you can’t depend on words and logos no more

Now the great lie is being seen through a hardcore symphony rises

Filling the city with adrenaline and my heart with unstoppable wonder

I can’t stop looking, trying to make sense, hoping I will decipher soon

And through the gnarled surface new forms take shape

Hints of a cosmos, clues to worlds we might inhabit now this one is done

It is everywhere this dirty brutal unformed hardcore symphony

Forcing through the decay rising up out of capitalism’s death throes

Filling the city with adrenaline and my heart with unstoppable wonder

I can’t stop touching, trying to feel something, hoping I will make sense soon