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We are all, more or less, trapped in the quagmire of post-modernism, where we have stagnated for several decades. Rare is the artist who does not pillage the past for the means of expression. A jazz musician who carries the label 'free' plays the avant-gaurde music of fifty years ago. The New Cinema consists of tropes over 100 years old. Much as we struggle toward new forms, it is the past that permeates most of our work. I have failed to break out of the post-modern trap because I havent the genius to mark a true change in direction. And in this song,i maintain that we need a new genius to build the new road that will restore originality to the arts.

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kickin around
ive been kickin around
in the gutters of post modernism
where even the pre-schoolers
can create albums like sgt peppers
and nobody cares because the human brain has become a recycling bin for the musical and literary tropes of the twentieth century

we need a new genius to lead us up to a new road

i took a picture with my telephone
then selected a style
and lo and behold
i had created a warhol silkscreen
what a great artist i am

throw your sour milk down the drain
it wasnt made to last
its not the future that will destroy us
its the past

we are living in a dream
where everyone can be whatever they want to be
without doing anything to justify it
even the pilot of the plane
is only playing the part of a pilot
and he can do it because the plane
doesnt need a pilot to fly it

there has to be a way out
of these fantasies built on memories
of a world that doesnt exist any more
we need a new foundation
not more and more mutations
lets give back all the things we have borrowed
and make new bricks
to build a new road
we need a new road

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from The Dark Room Act 3 - A New Road, track released July 29, 2021
written and performed by bill white

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