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David Toop's lyrics & chords

David Toop (born 5th May 1949, Enfield, London, England) is a musician, writer and sound curator. He has published five books, currently translated into six languages: Rap Attack (now in its third edition), Ocean of Sound, Exotica (selected as a winner of the 21st annual American Books Awards for 2000), Haunted Weather and Sinister Resonance. His first album, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1975; since 1995 he has released six solo albums - Screen Ceremonies, Pink Noir, Spirit World, Museum...read more

dry keys echo in the dark and humid early hours

hypnogogmatist

bodies of water

black chamber

slow loris versus poison snail

soft cavities

for a language to come

sea slug

waxed skin

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do the bathosphere

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unspeakable within it

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compelled to approach

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silver birds

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raw mouth shape

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human skin and the stone steps

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setting stones

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the chairs story

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gored fig sacs

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the divination of the bowhead whale

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falling light

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almost transparent blue

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things just went sour gradually all at once

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blind eel priestess

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poison incense

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invertebrate drawings

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life in the folds

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mixed blood

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auscultation

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an arthropod raising its head to see the sirakami

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the slapping gun

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a second nature

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utopia in fiction form

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ceremony behind screens

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breathing chaos

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translucent world

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mr lullaby should have rocked you

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21st floor discotheque at 4am

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nocturnal service shaft

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sugar frosted charcoal scene

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reverse world

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howler monkey shits and roars

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mamba point

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smell of human life

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empty mall

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automatic security procedures

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disposal chute inoperative

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ceremony viewed through iron slit

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connection not enabled

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haunted gate

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phantoms keeping watch

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flashing night spirits

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burial rites

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spirits shimmered among the live people

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tsuji

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pink fluffy cubicle on mercuri

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buried dreams

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unearthed

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ignorance of distance

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life without movement

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a cartographic anomaly

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city of night

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cave of inscription

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telematic nomads

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rising up before us like things

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let all mortal flesh keep silence

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immersion gallery

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living dust

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apartment thunder

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artificial or captive?

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crimson hood

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wing beats

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ink of the ants

The ten commandments The vending machines Art of ruins Yanomamo wayamou Shunie wmizutori buddhist ceremony Yanomami rain song Suikinkutsu water chime Ultra paste Heating and cooling Eyelash turned inwards Darkness moves Mallophaga squared Sound body Hydrophone Elastic aerophone The centriphone Metallophone Schockproof Plume preceded by far off inside Young men circle Ill faced doll Mud and quartz Analapos Duoon Caecilia Reflecters Vatnajokull Bottle at park Parhelic triangle Clean tone falling Cathnor Swan style Maa Stones bones and skins Live in london David toop

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