Stencil

1994

POST-stencil

Programme notes

Trying to write a song about counting in the style of Jasper Johns. From the first second Analecta record, ‘Body O’ Graphic.’

Lyrics

zero, its just some way to get
started one day, counting with my
two hands, too many plans and you can’t
three to get ready

like I mean it

four is edgy, sticking out
my five senses
cramping my sixth
seven dazed and weak

eight is forever and ever and ever and ever and ever
and every life has a number
every number a box
nine boxes

I mean it like I like it like I mean it like I like it like I

cho: stencil
I stencil like I mean it
I mean it like I stencil
stencil
I stencil like I see it
I see it like I stencil
stencil ’til I haven’t got
the strength to untie the knot that binds me
zero, its just some way to get some room to breathe something flat, something grey something lean
nine, its just some way to stop, stop the pictures
I mean it
(cho)
I can’t identify you
and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you.