Angels and Demons

"Angels & Demons" The Soul never sleeps battered and lonely, the lesson Life spent in The Hard Sell Soft-served you become melting Insomnia mouth sucking a loaded gun blue ribbonned and veined pulsing electricity from heart to lung to brain you’re a free bird flying high two crimes now swallows two minds You converse smoothly while you walk arm-in-arm the Heckle and Jekyll line Never now not lonely there are new friends the voices inside Opiate creeps furious and fast dancing with the shadows of all your yesterdays' Fausts The body’s a prison you try to escape surrounded by an ignoble past You are now a ghost hell-sold that day you made a pact at the Cross Road for Fool's Gold You now cling to the sign post waiting for 9 Inch Nails to be driven Passing other ghosts for silent acquaintance on their forehead is written "The Unforgotten Unforgiven" You’ve grown quiet in your loudness invisible and comically bold warm in the cold with all your burning indiscretions No one now ever really listens You are looking for sleep the final journey towards Home ten-pin bowls you for meaning In The Fall of your life you are tap dancing soft shoe barefoot with all of your Angels & Demons (LadyLabyrinth / 2020) Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It There https://youtu.be/hWSt_q7M3zI "Life's pulses now with fresher force awaken To greet the mild ethereal twilight o'er me; This night, thou, Earth! hast also stood unshaken And now thou breathest new-refreshed before me, And now beginnest, all thy gladness granting, A vigorous resolution to restore me, To seek that highest life for which I'm panting. The world unfolded lies in twilight glimmer, A thousand voices in the grove are chanting; Vale in, vale out, the misty streaks grow dimmer; The deeps with heavenly light are penetrated; The boughs, refreshed, lift up their leafy shimmer From gulfs of air where sleepily they waited; Color on color from the background cleareth, Where flower and leaf with trembling pearls are freighted: And all around a Paradise appeareth.” (Faust: II /Goethe, excerpt) 1. Faust 1(a) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust. The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures 1(b) https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/v02n09p264_the-theosophical-meaning-of-goethes-faust.htm 2. Heckle & Jeckle https://terrytoons.fandom.com/wiki/Heckle_and_Jeckle 3. Jekyll & Hyde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde 4. The Big Smoke https://www.thebigsmoke.com.au/2019/06/17/247-million-for-chaplains-in-schools-2-8-for-mental-health-whats-wrong-with-this-picture/?fbclid=IwAR39RAjdbjhvrRLPpY_pInRgWN0bQqwvaGAcZI78g52ZgjSVwPxk7D9lPQQ 5. https://dualdiagnosis.org/mental-health-and-addiction/the-connection/ 6. https://dualdiagnosis.org/unfortunate-connection-childhood-trauma-addiction-adulthood/ 7. "Take You There" - Massive Attack, Tricky, 3D / Lyrics: https://genius.com/Massive-attack-take-it-there-lyrics DEPRESSION/SUICIDE/ADDICTION/CRISIS Hotlines: 1. AUSTRALIA https://www.lifeline.org.au/ https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/suicide_help 2. USA http://suicidehotlines.com/national.html 3. U.K. http://www.suicide.org/hotlines/international/united-kingdom-suicide-hotlines.html https://www.supportline.org.uk/problems/suicide/ 4. Global http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines