Pain begat Crow
He didn't know where to go
He knifed his mum and ate his dad
Ate his dad, his dad was God
His mother scarred by this silly sod
Who now began to grow
Crow begat pain
The world was never the same
He saw hypocrisy in the Bible
Ate the hypocrisy at his table
Jived about in his Crowlike Babel
And thus began his fame
Girls came along
Crow inhumed their song
Within his heart, his heart of sad
His muddled heart his heart was dud
Pump to pump his blackened blood
He knew such love was wrong
The girls decayed with time
As Crow w***ed in his grime
What price he paid for every throw
He f***ed his fist, his mangled claw
Bile and rage to fill his craw
His requitement but a mime
Crow bit stone
He hated being alone
Trying to crunch his beak in twain
Bifurcate his pain with pain
Rip his head off go insane
And so he carved a throne
He sat still as dark
In the bushes of a park
And everytime a love passed by
He killed the girl and raped the boy
Kept their eyestalks as a toy
(And so Crow had a lark)
He never knew the light
It missed Crow in its flight
As it made its was to land
From Golden Sun to wrinkled pond
(It saw his black and was not fond)
And so Crow's soul knew night
In the night of the stars
He bombed from Moon to Mars
He shat the Earth and spat the Void
The vacuum in his heart allowed
This dirty Universe his shroud
All pretty things like broken jars
Crow destroy Crow devour
Crow's last suffering this rusty hour
Crow do deepen, Crow defend
What little life there is to hand
What mottled hope what trusted brand
To light for night, (buy) life for power
Comments
scratch | February 24, 2012 - 20:32
Good stuff here paborama.
Brilliantly executed. Thanks for sharing it.
london_calling79 | February 24, 2012 - 22:32
Love the clipped, short monosyllables of Crow bit stone. Very concrete. Why the rigid rhyme scheme?
paborama | February 24, 2012 - 23:00
The piece is inspired by Ted Hughes' "Crow". Although it's a fair few years since I wrote this, I think the rhythm is meant to be an echo of a single rough skin-drum being hit with a single radius bone (the forearm).
Thank you for your comment.
paborama | March 2, 2012 - 11:17
I've just found an old MiniDisc with this sung as a 3-part harmony (2 female, 1 male voices). Trouble is, I haven't had a MD player for 5 years :(
MS | January 28, 2013 - 21:49
Brilliant, I read it as you mentioned with the sound of the drum accompanying it.
scratch | January 28, 2013 - 21:58
It's good to see this one pop up again.
It amazes me, this site, constantly amazes me. The sheer talent on show.