Music is abstract, lyrics are concrete, with Elvis Costello, Marisa Monte, Jorge Drexler and Leo Sidran
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I'm Using Images to Serve the Feeling That I Have
Songs written over the last ten years originally intended for a musical. They are now being compiled to accompany a re issue of painted from memory. One thing that i have done on occasion as an exercise, is to attempt to write as if it were in another language, but it's in english. If my songs seem opaque, it's because i'm imitating the way language functions in other langages al the time. And i'm using images a serve the feeling that i have, and occasionally they re ove into into sense,. Now, i never really v spoken about it. There's no really reason to tell people everything you do in arriving at a song. I mean, i'm
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