Field of Shambles

from Grey Eye (old version) by Steve Yannacone

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Anita and Elijah walk into an open field beset by pitch black soot which arises from the ground like a haze of heat from concrete on a summertime day. Black, anorexic figures lumber across the field in unknown direction like burnt corpses trudging through knee-deep mud. Their jaws hang permanently unhinged and their eyes gaze eternally to the sky above, revealing the cloudy white of their eyes. Anita speaks of them with mixed hatred and nostalgia: “The Shambles,” she calls them. Vultures hover in the sky; some of them have come down to pick the shoulder-blades of the Shambles. Neither one seems to notice the other.

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[Elijah] Oh, A dense fog smothers every space,
sucks thought without a trace.
And fields and fields, an army, anorexic figures burnt to cinders.
[Anita] The whites of their eyes turn to the heavens,
but they’re never getting there.
Shambles walking, they’ll keep stalking, they’ll keep stumbling
aimlessly…

[Elijah] The vultures , the vultures pick their bones.
[Anita] Like burning fetus in the sun
[Elijah] Become someone, become someone…
[Anita] Don’t worry now, we’ve left them far behind.
[Elijah] But now there’s new dark shadows,
reaching, scraping, clawing for my mind.

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from Grey Eye (old version), released July 9, 2017
Sarah Ritzmann (vocals)
Ti-tong Tseo (cello)

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