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The Day I Went Insane (ft. Modifier)

by Lach

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Standing in Kinko's copy shop Chopping flyers for the Anti-hoot Cute girl asking me do I wanna enlarge Charge or cash Flash-back kicked Licked my eyes like a big ol' reality dog Fog robbed the scene of all civil rules Fools and apes the other customers became A reign of fantasy began and I wondered How did I get to this point making flyers for open-mike like I care about creating yet another lame, brain-drain music game And the consumers became mice running around Computers and paper-cutters and I was on No drugs just blindingly clear, sober, insanity The day I went insane became a week Bleak, sleek streets with no turns allowed Cowed me onto Broadway, North Beach circus Lust and blue mist kissed my trigger I figured some nude dancers were in order Borders I've never crossed needed exploding So, in I slinked Blinked in the raincoat dark Heart hammering, dick chattering In booth, window sliding and Bam Naked, giggling, watery women swimming on stage Me, in cage, pumping Quarters into slots And Oh, I'm hot and gone feeling stripped and barren But cool, like I was finally free from the children's table Cradle rocked I hit Vescuvio's Bar And bum a Camel from Paul Kantor Banter with afternoon drunks Plunking more quarters into juke-box Rocks with Sinatra and Gilberto Gil Go up to balcony Money a memory Kick-back and smoke Joke with blonde fire who knows poets I know And she's real and not behind a glass Fast talk and numbers swapped I bop out and back to porn palace for another Jerk while imagining it's the girl herself from Vescuvio's, stroking as I watch Crotch twitching Wishing I was sex itself The day I went insane was today And I'm a mad, bad, sad, lad crouched inside my name and age Raging at the nineties recovery zombies Who threw me a life-saver of the wrong flavor Behavior sanctioned into boxes too small for my psychedelic soul and I want out And I want to be demon and angel both Don't divide me ! Don't divide me! Don't divide me!

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"This poem is a work that's appeared in many forms, as the centerpiece of another song of mine called 'Staying Sober Tonight In North Beach", as the title of my hopefully soon to be published auto-semi-biography, as the title piece of my first Edinburgh Fringe show, and now here as a Beats Poem with the ultra-talented musician known as Modifier. This version was featured in an episode of 'The Lach Chronicles" first aired on BBC Radio 4. Modifier and I have done a few pieces together and I'm hopeful that we'll get around to doing some more, the guy's brilliant." - Lach

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released October 10, 2018

Lach - words and vocals
Modifier - sounds
Produced and engineered by Modifier with help from Dabster Productions.

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Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

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‘Best punk guitarist since Johnny Ramone.’-Billy Ficca of Televis
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