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All the Knight's Moves

from A Matter of Mind by Doctor Mirabilis

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There’s fire on the water
There’s tension in the dam
And a line-up for the slaughter
In the abbatoir of calm

I promised to be faithful
To the blessed creed of form
But it seems uncouth and wasteful
To dampen such a sacred storm
You can keep your simple pleasures
Undernourished and outworn
And I’ll deal in greater measures
Of the worshipped and the scorned

You seem to think that I’m craving stability
When I’m dyin’ to burst apart at the seams
There’s nothing holy ‘bout your noble tranquility
Or the jagged edges of your lithium dream
I can see all the knight’s moves from this precipice
And I’ve rediscovered a thirst for the game
The back rank’s ungaurded, yes it’s reckless chess
But oh you know I won’t be a pawn in your name

There’s venom in your vision
And poisonous control
A worship of precision
In the language that you stole

I spied on your reflections
Your spirit’s charcoal hue
Beset on the correction
Of a soul in neon blue
You long for reconnection
With the wisdom that you knew
But you’ve mastered the deflection
From the rueful and the true

You seem to think that I’m craving stability
When I’m yearning for an amphetamine sheen
You’ll be lying low by your lake of placidity
I’ll be flying high as I might with the cream of the cream
I can see all the knight’s moves fom this precipice
And I‘ve rediscovered a thirst for the game
The back rank’s ungaurded, yes it’s reckless chess
But oh you know I won’t bear the weight of your shame

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from A Matter of Mind, released August 1, 2011

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Doctor Mirabilis Nottingham, UK

After shedding the exoskeleton of troubled troubadour JT Songs, Doctor M emerged fully formed and backed by the superb playing and production of Peyton Pinkerton on his first three albums, A Matter of Mind (2011), Exiles (2014), and The Captain’s Chorus (2017). Aims and Methods (2023) signals a new musical direction and the first release recorded and mixed at Doctor M’s own Sublemotion Studios. ... more

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