"LISTENING TO THE BAND NEUROSIS WHILE PAINTING THE HALLWAY GREY" - Alex Johns
It makes sense to wear headphones
while you improve your home.
while you improve your home.
What one might wonder, though,
is “what does something
called Neurosis sound?”
is “what does something
called Neurosis sound?”
Right now, it’s how
humanity
enters The End;
humanity
enters The End;
The radiant breaks down into life! they cry;
like a canyon falling in,
the gradient of paint getting thin.
like a canyon falling in,
the gradient of paint getting thin.
They sound like
the sun
one day
changed its mind and decided
to suddenly tumble from the sky,
the sun
one day
changed its mind and decided
to suddenly tumble from the sky,
the medicine men raging from every perspective,
the heaviest band there is.
the heaviest band there is.
Instead of a roller, I’m using a brush,
not because I’m a craftsman,
or old fashioned,
clearly not,
but since I’m desperate
and determined to stay that way,
still wearing punk rock shirts
at this age.
not because I’m a craftsman,
or old fashioned,
clearly not,
but since I’m desperate
and determined to stay that way,
still wearing punk rock shirts
at this age.
I remove the smoke detector,
like a troubling mole,
like a troubling mole,
my brush darkening the off white,
wiping out what was,
what can never be again.
wiping out what was,
what can never be again.
You and me as we were
and
aware of where we should have been.
and
aware of where we should have been.
That’s what they sound like:
The fear the Lord arose
to sneak away in the night,
The fear the Lord arose
to sneak away in the night,
left nothing but a scribbled note,
a last honey-do list.
a last honey-do list.
That’s Neurosis:
music that chews you up into
your own
your own
personal
apocalypse.
apocalypse.
There.
Done.
