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Chalk Circle – This is about the dangers of emotional survival by self-isolation and severing contact with the outside world. Inspired by the ancient notion of being protected from evil whist standing within a chalk circle.

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Chalk Circle

I've drawn a chalk circle right around me
I'm going to stay in it I a never going to leave
It going to keep you out its going to keep you away
I'm on my own in here and that's how I want it to be

I put out the light and I stay inside
Sometimes its hell just staying alive
You can't touch me you can't even get near
I cant see anything that you describe

I know what it is to be so far down
There's no doubt about it I am underground
I see no evil I feel no pain
Nothing can reach through my chalk surround

I listen to the rhythm within me
I hear only sounds in my head
I do not move I seldom bother breathing
I sometimes wonder if I am dead
I sometimes wonder if I am dead

I am empty just an echoing jar
Remote and untouchable as the north star
My memories are fading into the past
I am now completely insular

I send out no signals, get none in return
I can not remember the things I have spurned
The turmoil is gone and I know only peace
I can not go back for the bridges are burned

I listen to the rhythm within me
I hear only sounds in my head
I do not move I seldom bother breathing
I sometimes wonder if I am dead
I sometimes wonder if I am dead

I know what it is to be so far down
There's no doubt about it I am underground
I see no evil I feel no pain
Nothing can reach through my chalk surround
I sometimes wonder
I sometimes wonder
I sometimes wonder
If I am dead

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from 1st demo album: The Speed Of Sound At Tree Level, released March 30, 2011
John Armstrong

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"Unique and other worldly"- Vive Le Rock!
"New Wave Post-Punk blood powered by a heartbeat of 1960's influences"- Louder Than War.

The Speed Of Sound are:
John Armstrong guitar/vocals, AnnMarie Crowley - vocals/percussion, Kevin Roache - bass guitar & John Broadhurst - drums,

Based in Manchester UK. Unfettered, unchained & independent since 1989.
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