Memory

from Fivesongs Demo EP by Deep Cabaret

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lyrics

Cardiac muscle fibres are objects
but the heartbeat they generate is a physiological event, a collective flutter that propels life
but has no mass and occupies no space.

Memories are the heartbeats of the nervous system, a bodily process produced by physical objects,
but as immaterial as the soul.
Not carved in solid rock but traced on a sand dune.

Memory collects the countless phenomena of our existence
into a single whole. A memory is not a thing.

As our bodies would be scattered into the dust of atoms if they were not held by the attraction of matter,
so our consciousness would break in as many fragments as we’ve lived seconds
but for the binding force of memory.

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from Fivesongs Demo EP, released June 27, 2018

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Deep Cabaret Lancaster, UK

Deep Cabaret is the culmination of bandleader Steve Lewis' life's work: to make a band that curates all the musics that fascinate him - jazz, improv, African, folk and leftfield pop. To use that music to set fragments of text taken from novels, journalism, spiritual and other texts that have interesting things to say about being human. ... more