by Dada de Dada
Another experiment in placing the words at the front and centre of an audio production. Sauron’s Gaze is almost acapella with just intermittent drums and bass backing (plus a few sound effects) to convey a runaway train that appears to be gathering momentum in our world by the day.
Play the SoundCloud embed below to listen to the result. Choose play ‘Listen from Browser’ button below if you haven’t got a SoundCloud account (free). It is best enjoyed with good speakers or a decent set of headphones. Playing direct from a phone or tablet speaker just degrades the experience and intention.
Lyrics
White heat of conviction Forging lens of truth Witchfinder generals Sharpen claw and tooth Fueled by fraud or fury Tall tales disseminate Gathering momentum Propagating hate Runaway trains Hurtling down a track Locked to the rails No way of turning back Picking up passengers Travellers to hell For Sauron’s Gaze Casts its evil spell
Conspiracy warriors
Congregated thought
Self righteous disease
A truth to be taught
Online obsessives
Gather in their cave
Hearing the echoes
To sacrifice or save
Runaway trains
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back
So mobs now gather
Lunacy is blessed
Martyrs step forward
Victims confessed
Ease of connection
Rewiring our kind
Good and evil
Moulding the mind
Confirmation bias
On easy tap
Fast food outlets
Serving up crap
Algorithms push
Eyeballs collect
Extreme is the normal
No shield to protect
Runaway trains
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back
Conspiracy fills
The compassion well
Village gossip
Becomes tidal swell
Cloaked in compassion
Plots proclaim
Pointing the finger
The ‘other’ to blame
Amplify resentments
Harvesting the hate
Irradiating righteousness
No critics contemplate.
Sin seekers see
Demons every where
Magnifying monsters
Inflating every scare
Runaway trains
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back
Awaken the sleeper Who slumbers so light Blow winds of bias Till embers ignite Perverting protest Embedded within Meme virus growing Recruits to win Runaway trains Hurtling down a track Locked to the rails No way of turning back
Exploiting freedoms
Imprison with lies
In mind dungeons
Deaf to all cries
Intolerance of tolerance
Feed factional fight
Destroy from within
Blinding insight
Runaway trains
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back
For believing nothing
Unless other believe
Built into a brain’s
Waft and weave
Leaves a landscape
The knowing surveys
Preparing the fields
For Sauron’s Gaze.
Runaway trains
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back
Picking up passengers
Travellers to hell
For Sauron’s Gaze
Casts its evil spell
Runaway trains
Hurtling down a track
Runaway trains
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back
Runaway trains
Runaway trains ...
No way of turning back
No way of turning back ...
About
First up, for those less familiar with Tolkien’s multi-layered worlds Sauron is indeed pronounced as ‘sow(as in female pig)ron’. Sauron’s power was to penetrate the mind defences of those who he wished to defeat or control making him a fitting figurehead for this production. Like a black hole he sucked all who came too close into his orbit. Seeking out the ‘receptive to the deceptive’. Those he could not control he sought to destroy. There are currently many actors on the world political stage who could play this part. I explore this theme in more depth in other poetic or musical posts, e.g. Just Tell Me a Story or Freedom’s Dark Mirror or Articulate Shark or In Their Minds v2 or In Their Minds v1 or Truth Dies or The Beast of Expectation. I invite you to read/listen to them as well.