A Barricade Grows

from Max Quinn's Onomatopenis by Max Quinn

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This song is about a man I saw on a bus the first two weeks I lived in Sydney. I was catching the 292 bus from Maroubra to the City from the Westfield shopping centre in Eastgardens.

There was a man on the bus talking intently to his pot plant. He'd bought it from Big W. He kept saying "THEY HAVE CAPTURED THE SKIES" and gesturing about science and religion and aliens.

I guess this song is about a tin-foil sympathiser growing a garden so big that he blocks out the suns.

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The miniature jungle from which you were saved
The gangrenous limb of the grocery chain
The cashier who happily sold you away
All "how can I help you?" and "Have a nice day!"

The people who disembark street after street
The men who must vacate the pregnancy seat
The pensioner boards to escape the heat
The personal walkman the puts her to sleep:

NONE OF THEM KNOW
We are but the stars in their luminous show
"They have captured the skies"
So we must move below
Where once was a garden, a barricade grows

The hubbub that Hubbard and those in his name created to validate property claims ...
I don't care what you earn, cause the truth that remains is that you cannot use science to justify faith

Gimme gardenias to soak up the rain
Homemade insulate
Aluminium phosphate reflecting the alien's rays
You keep the sunlight away

NONE OF THEM KNOW
We are but the stars in their luminous show
"They have captured the skies"
So we must move below
Where once was a garden, a barricade grows

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from Max Quinn's Onomatopenis, released November 4, 2014

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