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Faithful Johannes is sure he can remember flying as a child, and also that he was probably invisible sometimes.

Dust is the first song of the forthcoming Faithful Johannes Is Hopeful EP, due out in February 2021

lyrics

Just after dusk
I’m feeling long in the tusk
Like I must not be made of dust from stars
But house dust or rust from cars
My dead skin settles on unplayed guitars
Nightly
While fewer friends invite me for beers
I get cavalier with snubs and putdowns
On profiles that reach no one
A grey person outline
No face
No emotions

School reunion declined
Lied, messaged back said I’d died
Signed off by the loved one I’d left behind
Who keeps my socials open
Says heart was the width and depth of the ocean
Stop posting, move to Nova Scotia
Become a Life Coach, become a slogan
Stop coasting, use lotions
start feeling less atrocious

I’ve a definite memory
Of floating to the ceiling as a child
And moving by will power
From room to room
Un-noticed by the adults below
You might think that I’m lying
But believe me I’m not trying to

I’m in different rooms and places at the same time
Not legion or hive-mind,
but scattered with five kinds
of silence
hide it as shyness
write my own biog
but nobody buys it
like Alec’s book
I took liberties, heck
We both know no one believes
I headlined at Leeds and Bestival
Not even on a small stage as guest vocal
Or that I featured on once upon a time a shaolin
I throw in towels
Shriek at hairy moth owls
I meant Baldwin not Ferguson
In case you misunderstood what I said earlier on

I’ve a definite memory
Of floating to the ceiling as a child
And moving by will power
From room to room
Un-noticed by the adults below
You might think that I’m lying
But believe me I’m not trying to

I didn’t mean to shut you out
Or jam your fingers in the door
I’m sorry, you deserve more
I didn’t mean to shut you out
And jam your fingers in the door
I’m sorry, you deserve more
More honesty
More apologies
More bonhomie
Less hypocrisy
I still cheat at monopoly

credits

released November 13, 2020
Faithful Johannes did everything except the mastering which Martin Trollope did from www.harbourmasterproductions.co.uk

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Faithful Johannes Durham, UK

Sincerity Rapper.

Electronic Sound - ‘The Alan Bennett of Hip Hop’.

Tom Robinson (BBC 6MUSIC) - ‘a great artist’, ‘a rivetingly charismatic live performer’ and ‘if you have any chance at all, see him live’.

Deb Grant (BBC 6 Music / Jazz FM) - ‘clever and authentic and really affecting’.
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