Sinead O'Brien - Taking On Time

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sinead O’Brien - "Taking On Time" from the 2019 album Speedy Wunderground - Year 4 on Speedy Wunderground.

Esteemed London-based label Speedy Wunderground celebrated their 30th release with a new track by Irish poet Sinead O’Brien. O’Brien's work has been published for years, including a short story of hers printed in the London Review Of Books. Punk poet John Cooper Clarke invited her to open for him on a spoken word tour, a moment that changed her life. "He actually introduced me to the music of Mark E. Smith – probably one of my most valuable references ever," she recalled in an interview with Loud & Quiet.

Like The Fall frontman, O’Brien recites her lines with a stoic cadence, an oratorical delivery, though hers is thick with an Irish brogue.

“I would love people to dance to it,” she continued. “It’s the pace. I always try to do things faster than anyone will let me, then it gets pulled back just a tinge. Runaway, that’s my feeling. Always.”

Read the full post at KEXP.org

Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This that I am moving towards the world, this that I am taking on time.
0:26.0	Moving off into the distance to get closer again, moving down the line to start only once again.
0:32.0	Take me to the world, this is easy, to define the limits more clearly.
0:38.0	Take me to the world, this is easy, this that I am.
0:46.0	Disass by ideas, I am no more thinker than a prisoner of dreams.
0:53.0	A plague of enlightenment is no great game, it changed my own creation.
1:01.0	Order and chaos, I stay my name, order and chaos make a daily state.
1:07.0	Disass by ideas, now I take on time, now I take on time.
1:16.0	Everything here matters, everything here matters, it's all in a frame.
1:22.0	Say just this way, nothing should change, forever we're standing inside frames.
1:30.0	To transcend the world of things, we see so truly from inside frames.
1:38.0	Everything here matters, nothing ever happens.
1:45.0	Name the thing, I dreamed of a prison.
1:50.0	Everything I wanted looking I went no way back in.
1:55.0	I watched the elevator rise and fall where the hills should.
2:00.0	I watched the walls where the skies would.
2:04.0	I thought I was brave, that I was from a frame.
2:07.0	Have I missed my cause, or be late?
2:13.0	After death and it dawned at the break of the chains, outside the limelight.
2:21.0	This that I am, moving towards the world, this that I am, taking on time.
2:30.0	Moving off into the distance you get closer again, moving down the line to start only once again.
2:38.0	Take me to the world city, to defy the limits more clearly.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KEXP, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KEXP and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.