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Time's Decay

by Dave Artus & Paul Ilechko

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The song is based on this poem by Paul Ilechko
originally published in "Blue as an Orange"

Time's Decay

The unspeakable the indeterminate
hiding in shadow as cold as sadness
as cold as absence as cold as winter

spring’s shore was caverns and the traces
left by tide the plasticity of ocean weed
and the rusted remains of failed seacraft

our hearts skipped arrhythmic against
the monstrous worldliness of tourism
chewing its way through the July swelter

October was a desolate month filled with
the odor of summer’s dreams a feathered
hook to pierce a lip to drag across the wave

something scuttled at the periphery of
our vision spiderlike in the intensity of
experience only existing in relation to silence

we never expected to remember we never
expected to be remembered but hours
leached into days and the ice was melting

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Time's Decay

We do not speak of Winter it’s coldness and distance
A season indeterminate the icy breath of absence

Spring was caverns on the shore and traces left by tides
Rusting hulks sea-faring with ocean’s weeds inside

As hours are leaching into days and the ice is a melting crust
Who do we remember and who will remember us

Our hearts have skipped a season on beaches drowned by crowds
Frantic helter-skelter and July thunder clouds

No musk of summer’s dreaming no October consolation
Mellow fruit, scant harvest in coming desolation

As hours are leaching into days and the ice is a melting crust
Who do we remember and who will remember us


Everything ends in time everything fades in time
Until a year turns, and the shadow grows again
Everything fades in time

A scuttling at the edges, the hint of memory calling
The creature of experience anticipates the falling

We will not speak of Winter it’s coldness and distance
A season indeterminate the icy breath of absence

As hours are leaching into days and the ice is a melting crust
Who do we remember and who will remember us

credits

released May 24, 2023
Dave Artus: vocal, guitar, music
Paul Ilechko: lyrics
Eliza Marshall: flute
Michelle Plum: producer, arranger, all other instruments
Pete Wade: recording engineer

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Dave Artus London, UK

I'm a semi-retired IT person, originally from Bingley in Yorkshire, now living in Ruislip, West London. Always enjoyed the singer-songwriters such as Al Stewart and Michael Chapman, and now write some songs myself. My album Viewpoints was recorded with help from Dave Nachmanoff and Lukas Drinkwater. I help run the Uxbridge Folk Club and perform in local sing-arounds. ... more

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