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The poem here is by Michael Clft, a school friend of mine who tragically died aged 50
It's called "5% sounds" (full poem below)

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FIVE PERCENT SOUNDS by Michael Clift

Stuck in our heads
Wedged in our ears
Shaking the room
Filling the hall
The stadia
The field
The mall
Music answers our call

From the press of a button
To a band taking stage
To buskers on streets
And thousands at raves

Music answers our call

Eating out for the ears
A luxury item
Ubiquitous now
It helps us keep moving
On and around
Upside and down
Eager consumers rocking
To the mallsound

But musics heart
is hurting

A bruised aching pulse
Sends out it’s message
To us all

Hoping to change,
Charge, reactivate
With it’s call

It’s time for good music to return
And stand up
From
Its
Fall

Ignored by many
Embraced by those few
Who are moved by bits motion
Giving colour to sound
Those acute aural faculties
Hearing music all around

It floats through the centuries
Unearthing bones from the ground
Faithful souls rewarded at last
Upgraded to the firmament
Set and ready for a blast

Of good music

Sending sirens to the few
A calling cursed by madness
Calling back they grace us
With strange sounds from
Their beautiful sadness

In hearing magic circles
Spill in their head
Sharing secrets without words
To blurt out in haste

They swear over spells they’ve
Been given and can’t bear to waste
They work on a masterpiece
And break their own hearts

They implode in majesty
They fall apart

But

They leave

Good music

Putting magic into words put to the page
A blueprint of themselves
An aural DNA

History’s bell is chiming
When we hear them
Have their say

With their good music

They hear spaceships land
In their own backyard
Openin their ears

Driven by given sound
The five percenter
Dares to risk
To take a chance
Inspire a dance
Move bodies
In and out of trance

Into life alive
Beyond control
Out of others reach,
Into a world of turning heads
And dancing feet

Into the world

Of

Five
Percent
Sounds

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from CLOCKWORK, released May 5, 2022

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John Ellis Manchester, UK

John Ellis is a musician, writer and producer from the North of England. He runs Limefield, a studio and record label in Manchester.

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