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lyrics

The Figure Een wrote an opera
About George Antheil
and Ernie Kovacs

Convalescing
In the Old Barracks
Side by side

Figure, Ernie, and George
A trio Trentonian
Percy Dovetonsils
A singer stentorian
Libretto locked away
In an iron mountain
Brought to the stage
By the City of Trenton
The flooding Delaware
So damned diluvian

The stage is full of mud
The mud is full of corpses
The corpses are full of acting
Acting still

The audience erupts
Unalloyed cacophony
The tumult Antheil always craved so
The audience is elevated
A flying ovation
For the crowd
Thirty thousand strong
Is wholly crow

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from Trenton Akes The World Akes, released September 2, 2020
The Figure Een Wrote An Opera
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Erica Corbo: vocals
Eliane Gazzard: piano
Colin Marston: feedback-controlled player piano
GK: lyrics, editing
Figure Een: lyric source

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