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The Abyss

from The Abyss by Andy Zuk

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I’ve built this existence but something is calling me home

To the muck stack and coking plant

Fights in the pubs when they close



But the mist starts to gather up that incline on Wakefield Road

And the photos in the time capsule

Start to grow sepia toned



A place in my memory

There’s not that much left to see

Now it recedes



Dust gathers over Athersley, rests and it settles like stone

Archaeologists brush off the dirt

From my childhood home



And the Pit Fields turn back into swamp and across them I float

I orbit this epoch

But flesh has long since turned to bone



The Cherwell breaks its banks and swallows this whole city down

An Atlantis for the late nineties

Nothing and no one were found



But the bath left in Gatehouse and the threadbare ceremonial gowns

Hieroglyphics and symbols are amplified deafeningly loud



We resisted unstoppable progress but lost in the end

Now Camden’s a folly

That speaks of that futile intent



Onlookers stand baffled ‘cos they can’t understand what it meant

Like Pompeii’s volcano coughing dust through an old smoking vent



These memories will fade and slip down the abyss

Coins tossed down the well for a transient wish

And float to the surface embellished but partly erased



I’ll put them in aggregate start to make sense

Of my deepest regrets through my wise and old lens

And store them in triplicate

Safe ‘til the end of my days

All my days are slipping away

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from The Abyss, released September 19, 2015

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Andy Zuk England, UK

Andy is a multi instrumentalist singer/songwriter and producer living in the south of England.

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