“… from old-time darwenpunk riffs to the strains of future country, Woebegone snarls his way through songs of oil sex and death like a demented Cyclops on Zolprax … bone-tingling, quim-quivering and guaranteed to burn …
Blurbnote - January 2025
RWD<<< PLAY>
circa 1620
HAMBURG, GERMANY >>> JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA COLONY
Music is imbued with potential energy, and the atoms therein, if arranged in the right configuration, combine as that energy transforms kinetically. In this way the listener can be transported. The transportation is figurative, of course, but some tell of the odd occasions when it is literal. Real.
How can this be? There is no scientific proof to offer. Yet. But if you have been there then you know it is so. And when it comes to a lover from a past or a future, who seems at once new and yet longingly familiar it is as if, or because, we have been transported to that moment by the sweet short-hand of song.
— The Journals of Bebon Candorant
lyrics
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
GATHER ROUND, GATHER ROUND, YOU KNOW ME
THOUGH YOU NEVER BEFORE HAVE MET ME
I’M THE STORY THAT OILS ALL OF OUR TWISTED LIVES
AND NOW I’M CURSED TO REPEAT IT
TO STRANGERS WHO MAY NOT BE SO STRANGE
ONCE YOU’VE ENJOINED IN MY SORRY TALE OF WOE
ONCE I WAS ALIVE, A SEAFARER
A PIRATE IF YOU PREFER
MAKING MY WAY IN THE WORLD BENEATH THE SUN
BUT I FELL IN LOVE AND I MEAN IT
SHE ENVELOPED ME BODY AND SOUL
ONE NIGHT ON SHORE LEAVE IN HAMBURG LONG AGO.
SHE SINGS,
CARRY ME ‘CROSS THE OCEANS
COME SWIM IN MY SEVEN SEAS
I’LL LOVE YOU TILL AFTER MIDNIGHT
BUT I’LL BE GONE, BEFORE THE MORNING
CRACKS HER CROOKED SMILE
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
WOKE UP TO THE PRESS GANG
TO SLAVE FOR ABSENT ROBBER BARONS
TRANSPORTED OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD AND BEYOND
AN EXISTENCE WE CANNOT CALL LIVING
FUNCTIONING WITHOUT BREATHING
WHERE LIFE HANGS BY THE THREAD OF A DREAM OF A SINGLE NIGHT
FIFTEEN MEN ON A DEAD MAN’S CHEST
DRINK AND THE DEVIL HAD DONE FOR THE REST
SHE JUMPED SHIP WHILE I WAS SLEEPING IT OFF
SHE TOOK THE GOLD, AND THE HEART THAT I DIDN’T KNOW I POSSESSED
RIPPED IT OUT OF MY CHEST
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
BLOW THE MAN DOWN, HEAVE AWAY
HEAVE AWAY, BLOW THE MAN DOWN
TATTOOED WITH THE BLUE NOTES
WHEN THEY WERE BEING FORGED, DEEP IN THE BELLY OF A SINKING SHIP
ESCAPE? HARDLY! … A FREEDOM OF SORTS
ADRIFT IN ATLANTICANA
BREATHING HELL AND HIGH WATER
IN THE COMPANY OF LOST SOULS OWNED BY THE SEA
BLOW THE MAN DOWN, HEAVE AWAY
HEAVE AWAY, BLOW THE MAN DOWN
FAR, FAR OUT TO SEA
A VORTEX OPENED UP AND SWALLOWED ME
SPAT ME OUT IN ANOTHER WORLD
FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO SCORE AND TWELVE YEARS LATER …
I WOKE UP
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Danbert Nobacon 'freak music legend,' 'mischievous political goblin,'got an associate degree in the science of children’s
play in England in the 1990’s whilst moonlighting in the punk rock band Chumbawamba.
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