Perkins masterfully turns the human body into a rugged industrial landscape through raw and evocative metaphors. It is a powerful demonstration of how poetic grit can make the biological feel deeply spiritual.
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Black Stick - Tex Perkins
Added:[music] Evening my people. My people.
[music] [music] [music] Well, well, my heart is a muscle. It pumps blood like a big [music] old black steam train. [singing] My veins are the tracks. The city is my [music] brain. [singing] My stomach is an ocean. [music] It swallows up the sun at the end of a summer's day.
My breath is like a breeze blowing [music] all your storm clouds away.
Yeah.
I I I [music] I [music] >> [music] >> In my head is a city. It houses all the [music] thoughts and secrets that I have. And the mayor of the city think the [music] city sends a half bad.
My [music] arms could be weapons or instruments of love.
My legs are skyscrapers. They tower above [music] you.
Yeah. Play.
[music] [music] All right, take it down to the face.
Uncle Bill, [music] come on. Bring me a new girl.
[music] My heart is a muscle. Pump blood like a big old black steam train.
My veins are [music] the tracks. The city is my brain.
[music] Insane in the membrane. A stomach is an ocean. It swallows up the sun at the end of a summer's day.
My breath is like a breeze blowing all your storm clouds [music] away.
Hey [music] I [music] I I I I [music] [music] could be your whole world.
I I could be your hope.
Come on, you can do better than that. I I could be your hope.
[music] >> That's right. Hey, baby. I I could be your whole world.
That's [music] all. That's all.
[music] Heat. Heat. Heat.
[music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Yes, that's [cheering] all I'm saying. Text B is in the house. Hello beautiful
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