The Cycle of Untitled #23

  1. Cobalt Blue - As a starting point for life, an almost 'fixed' measure of earth and water tempered (rather indiscriminately) with air and fire, along with a questionable portion of another key element. Apportioned fairly? "Upon a pillory - that all the world may see, a just desert for such impiety." Or it could be the doing of an evil little sprite. As a reference point, you're alive in a place where you don't really belong or want to be. Do you stay or go?

  1. Deadman's Hand - Regardless of where you go or what you do, you're dealt your quotient of luck - good and bad. Struggle all you want; take your lot to any place in the world, the hand you're dealt goes with you. You may be at large but consider your fortune indentured.

  1. Pangaea - Not having a fixed address does not designate an all things unfixed arrangement (of your life). The 'fixed' things are; however, if you shift your focus to the unfixed positives, a whole world, filled with possibilities, is waiting to be shared. Each part becomes an entity with its own set of possibilities as well as the common factors it began with.

  1. Happenstance - The fruit is heavy on the vine, ready to be picked. Some things just happen without your help; however, most of your life is your own doing. The abundance of something relies heavily on its incidence. You can increase your chances of obtaining a desired result by increasing the quantity. Creating the right environment means putting in more time and effort. It's hard work. Will you seize or squander opportunity? To flourish in due time you've got to 'work' it out. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Quantity and quality of seeds and the cycles of death and rebirth are pretty much the grand sum of it. The other little bit is happenstance.

  1. Space Saviour - Relax … you're not alone. Plus your guardian angel's there to catch you when you fall. Can you handle your disappointments; your personal 'failures' and bankruptcies? Can you get back up and try again?

  1. On Angel Street - Acknowledging but not always accepting that, mostly, no one gets exactly what he/she intrinsically desires. You comfort yourself by remembering the days when you didn't let your disappointments pin you down; when you believed or hoped all things would unfold exactly as you planned.

  1. Sunken Sun - Not really what you wanted, perhaps? Sh … it's okay: you'll get another chance. The sun sets only to rise again.

  1. Anchorage - The spurner and the spurned. With your wits about you, you can (finally) see through the former's disguises, and the latter's pain. You're hurt - bitter and angry, too - but you're not dead yet. The damaged living in a damaged world. You give a rat's … about both. Moreover, both won't go down (quietly) without a fight.

  1. Lunar - All of this madness; the periodic bloodletting; the pain and suffering; the … What's it all for?

  1. Operetta - Where does it all go? Earthly life is short. Is it merely variable and quantifiable amusement? Is it an amusing preoccupation? One by one, each (person of each round) is branded and out!

"Ring a-ring o' roses
A pocketful of posies
A-tissue! A-tissue!
We all fall down."

or

"Ring around the rosy
A pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes
we all fall down!"

How many rounds can you go?

Untitled #23 is a (keen) chronicle of the life of Life. A 'Life is Sacred', sacred to life album with its songs in 'cycle of life' sequence. Both (life and the album) are structured kinds of pilgrimages, passing chronologically from point to point; however, one is partly shaped by randomness, whereas the other is not. This is a highly contrived album - full stop

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