Chapter 22: The New City
January 3, 2010Henry Baum 1 Comment »To set the scene – which contains slight spoilers, but whatever. World War III is over. The survivors of the war are rounded up in a neighborhood in Los Angeles dubbed The New City. Lead character, Eugene Myers, is happy to be alive, as is everyone else, so:
The New City is my home
And I love all I know.
He wonders if this new world might be the beginning of something better – as was the point of the war: to jolt people into evolving, or bring about the Second Coming – as outlined by the fundamentalist President Winchell, or his father, Benjamin Winchell (Dick Cheney), who’s a lunatic of a different stripe. Eugene Myers himself wonders if this might be the makings of something better, as he’s seen evidence of a new type of consciousness, with elements of dreams becoming a reality. So:
In the beginning…
of our childhood
Is it the end of adult vice?
In the beginning…
of our rise
Is it the end of our decline?
The New City by theamericanbookofthedead
Another layering of guitars song, which becomes a kind of wall of sound, but this song represents the finale of the war. Full lyrics here.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:55 am
Love this new song. Very Neil Young and Radiohead. I love the layered vocal idea.
I was listening to shallow lips when in the supermarket the other day and it was so apt to stare at all the shoppers heads and lips. I got dizzy. Theres an intensity in these tracks that makes me think of the next phase or some kind of unkown ending. yet to read the book but this is wetting the appetite…..