Transcript of "Sliding Off the Beaten Path"

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 * Lucretia Saint-Saëns

Lucretia: Y'ever ache for a place you've never had a chance to miss? Those hot and acrid nights in New Orleans, not fifty miles from where my father was born, and hardly even thirty, for me... how much has crumbled, by now, into the sea? Like Venice, like Atlantis... Real and unreal, disappearing one by one. Silent as a dream. You're listening to KFAL, Barcelone midnight radio. Hold that levy, and decide for yourself if it's worth the consequences to Drown All Your Witches. It's time for some Antemasque.

[Antemasque, "Drown All Your Witches"]

Lucretia: Dig deep and hit water, if you care to. Mains like vessels and aquifers the organs of what earth you can see. And what happens, when we hit the bottom? Hell, most like, but how high can we claim the water to be, when we are ever-sinking? Break that vertical dam and find out. Beneath the sandbags and the dawn, maybe you'll find the forests that grow upside-down, where the wolves roam freely in the city they founded with their children. Hot nights at the back of your closet, air so heavy you can't move for all the water on top.

[The Mountain Goats, "Up the Wolves"]

[Will Wood and the Tapeworms, "Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In!"]

Lucretia: Wanna climb back out? I can hardly blame you. Start creeping and crawling however you please. The local airwaves may be my turf, but I know how to share... for a price, of course. [Laughs]

[Royal Blood, "She's Creeping"]

[Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights"]

[The Bedquilt Ramblers, "You've Got to Walk"]

Lucretia: Nostalgia is a lonely thing. Memories and the people who share them run away, or push you away. Hard not to miss those quiet dreams, when you fall through the barricade you've built to block the way back.

[Voltaire, "Almost Human"]

Lucretia: Keep your vision forward, your inspiration upward, or you'll have to learn to swim real fast. And if you choose the low path, take care you don't get boiled like a frog in those hot and heavy nights. Sleep dreamless, and I'll see y'all next time.

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