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wayneandwax - My Cocaine Museum

from April 2013: Novel Sounds by Underwear Everywhere

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The point of inspiration is the eponymous chapter of the book that shares the song's title, My Cocaine Museum.

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You can find it when you face the sun, close your eyes,
And watch the colored lines dance
Follow them, follow the heat and you’ll get there
All the way to my Cocaine Museum

Unlike the museum in downtown Bogotá
Plumb in the center of el capital
My museum lies at the extreme of the border
Where the ocean meets 400 miles of swamp

Where the air barely moves and the rain never stops
Where slaves from Africa brought to mine gold
From the founts of rivers flowing down mountains
Which run north to south but a few miles from sea

This place that I visited weeks every summer
As gold dwindled down and the cocaine appeared
Spread west over mountains from Amazon basin
Where US defoliants drove cultivation

By 1999, oh they were coming
Los tráficos living it up
In the Hotel del Rio, carousing with police
While one river north grew the crops of the FARC

Though fears have abated, they can’t be discounted
In this sense My Cocaine Museum
It stands with its door, with its door all ajar
on the impending apocalypse



But I am not that interested in museums
Those dead and hostile places
What I’m interested in is gold and cocaine
Where one is dying and one taking off

The end of the earth where the rain never stops
And the trees reach the sky
A history of things and a history of people
Forced to find their way through these things

What sort of things? Heat and rain, stones and swamps
Forests and rivers, colors and islands
And along with the ghosts that haunt the museum
Nature itself is released with the rush

Of the time-compressed magic of gold and cocaine
The time-compressed magic of gold and cocaine

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from April 2013: Novel Sounds, released May 7, 2013
words by Michael Taussig / edits & arrangement by wayneandwax:
wayneandwax.com

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