Eternal Present

from Holy Motorway (Selected Demos 2022-2023) by Mattie Konig

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And a thousand tiny moments glide on limp and pointless gossamer wings tracing paths no eye could hope to follow

And the mysteries of ink evade the hands that filled the handsomest barns with the diaphone tones of psalms and sorrow

Is your eternal present gleaming and effervescent?
First stroll and morning cup of coffee
Is your eternal present not there one hundred percent?
First time you’ve seen a human being

But now when you man the manuals
It comes flooding back
Every glissando and solfége phrase

Braver than you’ll ever know
Seven-second spirit
May your memory carry ’til the end of days

And the flies are getting bigger
Buzzing round the living room
But they’ll never get inside you
Or your brightly lit gloom

And the Fab Four of cognition
Go on stage without a George
But they’ll play like it’s their last show
And the first of many more

Is your eternal present fearful or ever pleasant?
You’ve spent so many years apart
Is your eternal present unique in mortal torment?
Somehow the devil spared your heart

But now every time she walks in
It comes flooding back
Passion’s beaming beacon now in sight

Braver than you’ll ever know
Seven-second spirit
May your memory travel at the speed of light

Mr. Trebus on the scaffolding and Hannah Hauxwell roaming the Dales
Could you fit their names on number plates?

And would you seize every conscious moment with a vim we’d do well to share
Truly superlatively awake?

Eternal present
Eternal present
Eternal present
Eternal present
Eternal present
Eternal present
Eternal present

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from Holy Motorway (Selected Demos 2022-2023), released December 15, 2023

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