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The Left Hand of Darkness

from Starguide by Art Schop

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I love Ursula LeGuin's writing. I'm not really drawn to science fiction or fantasy novels, but LeGuin was such an exceptionally imaginative and fabulous writer that I was along for the ride. I wanted a speculative song for the album, an imagined future, and LeGuin's book The Left Hand of Darkness was a wonderful inspiration

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To my surprise I have landed on a planet so cold
That the seas shine like jewels

The Gethenians come forth, and alone for years
I succumb to the lightness and weep

In the city’s cocoon, they unwrap the layers
To reveal neither man nor woman, a race evolved

Light is the left hand of darkness
These two are one
They lie together, like lovers
At the end and the way

As the days go by I grow slack, seduced by the glow
Though mistrust assails. Am I envoy, insurgent, or both?

Light is the left hand of darkness
These two are one
They lie together, like lovers
At the end and the way

He who I mistrust, I must love
Who has forestalled would now free me
I open to him my mind, as we flee
Across the expanding tracts of ice

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from Starguide, released July 23, 2021

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Art Schop Brooklyn, New York

Contemporary rock that's "a mixture of Murder Ballads, Songs from a Room, and Hunky Dory."

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