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Hashish

from By The Fire by Thurston Moore

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By The Fire begins with the song "Hashish", so as to suggest what the French poet Arthur Rimbaud referred to as a "derangement of the senses". Rimbaud, in the late 1800s, wrote

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized derangement of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences.”

"Hashish" is a decidedly less dramatic statement than Monsieur Rimbaud's proclamation - it only seeks to present a sense of eternal bliss through love as a narcotic state of being. Which evokes, alongside Rimbaud, the awesome Jimi Hendrix where he intones in his beautiful song,"Power To Love", " With the power of soul/ Anything is possible / With the power of you / Anything you want to do". One does not have to imbibe with any herb or spirit to find the essence of the most high, the soul love of your "soul hope". Smoke it and see.

lyrics

HASHISH

(music by Thurston Moore,
lyrics by Radieux Radio and Thurston Moore)

Day or night no one knows
Feel the full effect of this dose
Is it day or night
I just don't know

Hashish eater please be patient
Feel it girl our hallucintion
Feel the full effect of this dose
Its in you girl yeh my repose

She's the haven of my soul
Is it day or night oh we just don't know
She's my only friend, my soul hope
Hashish scarab come tonight
Will you bring your elusive light
Your love is all that i am needing now
Your drug is all that i am feeling now

credits

from By The Fire, released September 27, 2020
Thurston Moore vocals, guitars
Deb Googe bass
James Sedwards guitar
Jem Doulton drums

Recorded and mixed at Total Refreshment Centre, London England
by Syd Kemp and Kristian Craig Robinson

Mastered by Lasse Marhaug

Photograph by Laurent Orseau

Artwork by Nico Bruggemans

Produced by Eva Prinz / Daydream Library Series

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Thurston Moore London, UK

thurston moore born 25 july 1958 coral gables florida usa, teenage years bethel connecticut then nyc 1977, joins The Coachmen plays cbgb, max's + downtown art-rock dwellings,sonic youth 1980-2014, then chelsea light moving, immigrates to great smoke, foreva love, solo group action, further free scenes, ecstatic peace library, daydream library, animal liberation ... more

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