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Last Watch

from Surface Tension by The Plague Monkeys

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[Dedicated to the last lightkeepers, 24th March 1997]

Latter days, mechanical
Winch would haul the lead weight up the shaft
Tread the stairs again, to wind the light
For revolution

What the hand performs, the mind records
I have this stored away from daylight

From daylight, from daylight

I am the heritage
Of manpower that is running in the wires
To the signal box, dead sentinel
With artificial eyes

What the mind perceives
The soul can read
If language runs to seed

In daylight, in daylight

A light that knows reflections
In infinite recession
A light that knows geometry, mirrors that can teach
The mortal grace to turn the face discreetly to the wall

In daylight, in daylight

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from Surface Tension, released April 10, 1998

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Carol Keogh, has written and sung with a number of bands including The Plague Monkeys, The Tycho Brahe, The Natural History Museum (with Dunk Murphy) and Autamata.
Keogh's first solo release (backed by The City Fathers), "Mongrel City", was released in 2014. ... more

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