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traffic circle

from no hugging = no learning by damezumari

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so there is a novel by J.G. Ballard called Crash, David Cronenburg made a film about it, its about this weird sort of subculture/cult, and they sort of get off on car crashes and the injuries that result from them, and this song is not at all about that, because I hadn’t read it when I wrote this, but, it’s not far from it, it’s a metaphor - driving around in a traffic circle, we go around in this circle, but we never go anywhere, and the only way something will happen is if it is brought to a head in some dramatic way, like a car crash, stopping all of a sudden and bringing the moment to its crisis, and of course, things never work out that way, hence the violence of the metaphor – but there are always exits too often ignored, and while they can lead backward, they can also lead to a goal/destination – it’s an abstract sort of situation, but one that repeats itself on personal and global levels, I find – and I bring up the ballard novel simply to suggest that this sort of thing is very much motivated by competing desires for safety and obsessions with consequence and trial by peril – a “drive” if you will to push moments to dramatic climaxes, tests of character – the steady and well-considered route being all too boring

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this air bag is suffocating me. all i can breathe is the sulfur. and i don't have a witness. it's a bitter, sweet, sweet, pyrrhic victory. lights looking left are lights looking away.

i promise i'll drive into the distance. your lights illuminate only exits now. you can drive around in circles for years and years and never do justice to all of your fears. a traffic circle. and the ringing in your ears is the car wreck i'm trying not to escape. this sulfur is suffocating me. circle, circle, circle, circle, circle, circle, circle, circle, stop.

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from no hugging = no learning, released March 1, 2004
daniel doug eric

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damezumari Tulsa, Oklahoma

the band - started march 2003, from tulsa,OK. and san diego, ca
in its last recorded form:
craig maricle - drums
chris skillern - bass, voice
stephen paul - guitar, voice
eric titterud - guitar, voice
the band has previously included:
doug johnston (drums) and daniel sutliff (bass), who both played on the first three demos,
blake foster (drums), and aaron thornhill (bass) and mike laughlin (drums)
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