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Genius of Love (Inspired by THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE by Jonathan Lethem)

from List of Equipment by Lusterlit

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GENIUS OF LOVE

A Labyrinth with stunning views
The trumpets herald all the news
And signal every G train’s arrival

Mercury inside your veins
No such thing as retrograde
your certainty it certainly is primal

Projects shine like constellations
The M Train sings through all its stations
Flashing its electrical morse code

Your stormy eyes are everywhere
You’re shooting sparks without a care
And once again you have me in your hold

Oh Superman
Oh genius of love
Oh judge
Oh mom and dad is that not enough

They say be careful, I say look behind you
You cannot change what’s deep inside you
Blowing past the lines of caution long ago

They quickly yoke you when they find you
The barrel of the gun reminds you
How very slow the motion really goes

But in the jaws of hungry Brooklyn
Your superheroes come and took you
Somewhere very dark and very cold

Last time brought down low by the ringleader
But now the frantic fear will leave you
In fact it’s always yet to well unfold.

Oh Superman
Oh Genius of Love
Oh judge
Oh Mom and dad
Can that be enough?

What the fuck you looking at
Under the maze of subway tacks
and all the fortresses of solitude

Heat that blurs subtle distinctions
Gospel drifts from Sunday kitchens
Despair and hope have ways of finding you.

Insular strands they weave together
Strong enough to smash whatever
Plans you had to open all your doors

Love amongst the haunted mirrors
The objects closer than they appear
Here to come and make my story yours.

Oh Superman
Oh genius of love
Oh judge
Oh mom and dad is that not enough

Trying to be little heroes
In our lives of mainly zeroes
Or maybe even sometimes ones

Without the magic realism
Without the story mechanisms
It makes us feel like we are almost done.

But in the jaws of hungry Brooklyn
With your unstoppable momentum
You’ll have a tale to tell if you survive

Through the teeming human clutter
Wisdom comes up from the gutter
How to live and not just stay alive.

Oh Superman….
Oh genius Love
Oh Judge
Oh Mom and Dad
Is it ever enough
Can that just be enough

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from List of Equipment, released March 1, 2017

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Lusterlit Brooklyn, New York

With their songs created for Bushwick Book Club, BBC founder, Susan Hwang and BBC contributor and producer, Charlie Nieland, have joined forces to perform as the new, literature-inspired duo—Lusterlit. Both vocalists and multi-instrumentalists, Charlie and Susan alternate lead vocals and harmonies while supporting each other on guitar, bass, synth, traditional Korean drum and accordion. ... more

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