Captive Audience & KC - Legend of the Map

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Legend of the Map (Captive Audience & KC)
lyrics ©1999 Craig Conley

Since the birth of human languages
we’ve been mapping out our lives.
Like some verbal cartographers
tracing patterns of our speech.

Here I struggle with depicting
what is known not merely seen.
Transforming into being
what’s understood not only sensed.

Invisible, impassable
brought into the here and now.
Both the present and the absent
endowed with scale and in relief.

A map without a subject
is a tuneless song.
Trace these lines of melody
across the world.

The legend on a map
puts symbols into words.
Symbols are created
to promote a myth.

I draw and stretch imagination
presenting not the world I see.
I am pointing my heart’s compass
toward a world that we might know.

The surface is a sort of window
through which my new world is seen.
I hold the corners of this framework
unfolding far beyond belief.

Unfolding far beyond belief...

I see snowcapped mountains
rising toward the sky.
I see rivers
flowing toward the sea.

I hear people pounding
beating rhythm on their drums.
I feel the pulse unfolding
far beyond belief.

Since the birth of human languages
we’ve been mapping out our lives.
Like some verbal cartographers
tracing patterns of our speech.

A map without a subject
is a tuneless song.
Trace these lines of melody
across the world.

The legend on a map
puts symbols into words.
Symbols are created
to promote a myth.

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from KCollab.30, released March 30, 2013
Craig Conley: lyrics
Ken Clinger: music & performance

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