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A song about the Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and his turbulent life. Read more about it here: joeonmusic.tumblr.com/post/634215281281073152/sketches-of-human-beings-vladimir-mayakovsky

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Lightning Telegram

A small prick with a rusty pin
Took his father when he was a teen
After that he washed his hands obsessively.

In the solitude of cell 103
A teenage marxist discovering poetry
Ready to jettison all of history.

Slapping taste in the face
Shooting art through the heart
Trying to manufacture happiness

A bayonet pen, a backbone flute
Drunk with glory, but no parachute
As he fell out of love with this world far too fast.

How strange to be a futurist from the past
Brooding in his yellow blouse with knotted brows
The kind of man to love his best friend’s wife
Then say “Our planet is poorly equipped for delight.”
How strange to be a futurist from the past
Trapped in a love triangle and a communist tangle
Towering above it all and debasing his art
A satirist yearning for acceptance by his targets.

44 years before I was born,
He drew a lead full stop.
How could it have ended any other way?
He was not a man for slow decay

After his second death
He became what he’d hated.
Airbrushed and tone deaf
Crudely, unthinkingly celebrated.

Now send me a lightning telegram, you said it would crush my dreams!
Your revolutionary art put a bullet through your heart.

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from Before the robots told us where to go, released December 3, 2021
Composed and performed by Joe Peacock
Produced by Joe Adhemar

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Joe Peacock Birmingham, UK

I'm a prolific singer-songwriter from Birmingham - a genre-hopping storyteller, whose music has been compared to Bowie, Blur, Costello and many others. Mostly, my songs tell stories that I find interesting and thought provoking. My music has all been recorded at home so far and all money from the digital sales of my music go into paying producers/mixing & mastering engineers. ... more

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