Younger For Longer (LA a Go Go)

from Swingers Castle by Mikel Rouse

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Younger For Longer (LA a Go Go)

The killing of time
And building the wall
The bottomless hope
That sinks after all

I’m never gonna storm the fader
The ebb and the flow
I’m never gonna misbehave her
The gurney away
The Barack popshop invader
The cattle before
Harvey NDA disclaimer
The King for a Day

And the robot soul from Sleeper
And you never get old
Gonna miss that mad believer
And you never get old
Like the meth Lab it to Beaver
And you never get old
And the heroin Ward Cleaver
And you never get old
And the sad sack Yeezy

And you took away my flow
And you took away my LA go go

They’re never as good from the front as from the behind
And they’re never gonna change their mind
The awards disclaimer and the broadcast motivator
The beyond the grave creator

Take a deep breath, shed a craft tear and walk away from here
From the flow to the center of the earth
To the center of rebirth

Take your best shot at my Ferrari
Blow the lid off your Campari [intentional]
Make a bonehead play to a race bait
Day for night and say you’re sorry

Bring the shoehorn to the party
Walk away from hail and hearty
Dance on the graves of the people that saved you

And you took away my flow
And you took away my LA go go

I know message I know fable
I know big and tall
When you sayin' that I’m an alien
Aboriginal
Waddle on your bone spurs
Activist animal
Bring your A game to the no name
Dead America! America!

Caught in the race of mobility faces
The wall and the target
And third streaming garbage
Arrested development
Maybe I’m celibate
Going for broke in eternity chokehold
I try to be good
And I sometimes succeed
I don’t master the moment
I master the need
I’ll be pitching a tent
On the side of the road
I’ll be better than best
I’ll #BeBest lock ‘n’ load

#BeBest to be dead
#BeBest to be dead

[Early naturalists talked often about “deep time” — the perception they had, contemplating the grandeur of this valley or that rock basin, of the profound slowness of nature. What lies in store for us is more like what the Victorian anthropologists identified as “dreamtime,” or “everywhen”: the semi-mythical experience, described by Aboriginal Australians, of encountering, in the present moment, an out-of-time past, when ancestors, heroes, and demigods crowded an epic stage. You can find it already watching footage of an iceberg collapsing into the sea — a feeling of history happening all at once.]

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from Swingers Castle, released September 6, 2019

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Mikel Rouse New York, New York

Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more

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