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Electric drama

from The month, not the name by Augúst

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the goose quill put an end to words,
now all the world's a sage
it sends out regular alerts
within its endless cage

blinks once for yes, just stares for no,
and fills those tubes with air.
a one-o-one-o "there she blows"
that's playing truth or dare

and it's got all the know-how
you better click on go now

it takes its breath from jars of glass
jam-packed with do-or-dies
it bows its head in morning mass:
transistor changes signs

it polishes your firewood
before it starts a blaze
it jots down all the bads and goods
it penetrates all haze

and it's got all the know-how
you better click on go now

it has got no say,
memories bartered away
at the 47th street diamond exchange.
for an easy lay
for you martyr ways
for the eleventh try on the test range.

with lenses ground from unused stones
it auto-tunes the view
until what's found in human bones
seems like a gift to you.

the instruments in constant threat
one stumble of the mule.
the trails marked on your father's map
are taught in every school

and it's got all the know-how
you better click on go now

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from The month, not the name, released April 14, 2015

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Augúst Berlin, Germany

Augúst is Jan Clemens and Arnulf Koehncke from Berlin and Hamburg.

More than ten years ago, we started playing dilettante acoustic post-rock together, but now we converged on something more folk-pop than that.

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