Name: Get Out Of Your Dirty Horn
Duration: P00H05M10S
Description: Things my father taught me.

Get Out Of Your Dirty Horn

by Sunex Amures

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Things my father taught me.

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I was down with the spiders, when I spied an iridescent sign
among dank cobwebs, found myself a luminescent line

Glides on one foot with their home on their back
Fearful of salt or from aerial attack
Antler antennae, feels around like it’s blind
Emerging in rain to get drunk on a pint

A three-dimensional spiral architect.

Hidden so neatly, in corners or on garden table legs
Tucked in discreetly (strange how you never see the eggs)

A gregarious gastropod, yet in its own shell
Self-reproducing, its numbers swell
Indeterminate gender, non-binary clan
He’s a family woman, she’s a company man

An hermaphodite mollusc; no obvious bollusc.

So we had a séance, asked my father what he did
He knew a special charm to say wherever snails were hid

He could always succeed where all others had tried
to have them peek out from their calcium hides
They would serve as familiars, or even as friends
and keep you enthralled till the darkness descends

In Divine Proportion; adept at contortion

My dad said:

"Snail, snail, a-pooka — get out of your dirty horn!
Snail, snail, a-pooka — get out of your dirty horn!"

[the following words in the charm are redacted]

My friend Tim once named his own one ‘Baz’.

Leviathan of mucus! Come out and make thee mine!
Thy silvery trail shall gleam wherever sun doth shine
Pearlescent interior, exterior like stone
Thine opalescent thread shall betray where you roam
My captain of industry, the Napoleon of slime
The scourge of the brassica, the waster of thyme

Snail, snail, a-pooka — get out of your dirty horn!

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released October 8, 2023
Sunex Amures: bouzouki, bass and electric guitars, keyboards, bodhrán, gunibri slime percussion, vocals, programming.

Words and music: Paul A Murphy.

Recorded at the Badhouse, Sussex, June-October 2023.

In memory of Joe McNally and Dominic Savage, both taken too soon this year.

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Sunex Amures Brighton, UK

Sussex sea-board sorcery.

Paul A Murphy: bass, bouzouki, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, vocals, seance, programming, tape wrangling, percussion.

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