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Kind Words Soft Kill

from Singles by Poeticat

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Neil Mach of Raw Ramp: ‘Kind Words Soft Kill’ starts like a backward sliding water flume. The oily water dribbles past your limbs as you ascend into a nervous space.

The voice is chalky and it doesn’t really get juiced until the lacework of stings begins. Then a little tapped rhythm flutters like a hat-rim feather.

The poetry cleverly exploits the knots and crevices in the arrangement.The rhyme often reminded us of Shaznay Lewis’s rap in “Never Ever”.

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​Kind Words Soft Kill​

Kind words soft kill
Built by the man on the moon
I was confused
The splish splash of Norman's land is drawing nearer
And my eyes are heavy to countless languages unknown.

When we first arrived on the island
The touch of a local woman’s hand
Made a lasting impression on my arm
And I have not been able to get rid of those finger prints since.

We slept under the stars in a heap
The ants climbed our feet
Until we ran leaving our belongings behind
Into the mountains and beyond the land
And across the starry sky into the abyss.

Moon-walking towards me
My heart palpitated
Because I wondered if you were going to take to me
But you stopped before you reached me
And dived into the clear blue sky of the earth

And I knew that you weren’t coming back
And that it was over between us
And I thought perhaps I should stick with the other Europeans.

Alone up there
I had the chance to watch all the people moving about the planet in their different ways.
Some of them had clouds of smoke above their heads
So it was harder to make out what they were thinking,
The others' minds were written above their heads in script.
Some had one word,
Others a whole book of thoughts.


They said; I wonder if she likes me and if I’m ok,
I hope to make it to pay day
I wonder if I can make this jump
I hope there’s something nice for lunch
Please stop crying I can’t take it anymore
I think it is time we went to war


I knew the time for me had come.
I turned and looked but you’d already run
I took a deep breath and I blew over the trees
Munched on the hills, Drank up all the seas and
I destroyed earth until I’d had my fill
Now it is all
Kind words soft kill

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from Singles, track released October 28, 2013

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Stemming from London and Lisbon Poeticat are an original mix of honest, thought-provoking poetry and catchy, genre-hopping music. Rebellious, authentic, exciting and theatrical Poeticat’s mind-bending, visceral journey will keep you whistling all the way home.
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