Word Associations by Robert Smith
HAPPINESS - forgetting the limits of your own existence if only for a moment...
SONG - the best cure for most things is singing.
ADMIRATION - not knowing; just hoping
SIGN - names and places, and warnings...
WORD - up
QUALITY - tolerance, humour, intelligence, silence wanting to know
"YES" OR "NO" - a phrase i often tack onto the end of a foolish question when attempting to
elicit a quick response from some-one near me.
PARADISE - a cold glass of water in the desert
NUMBER - three |||
OBJECT - something out of context like a severed hand.. a figurehead: the glaze made dull by dust...
MUSIC - dreams
MISERY - futility
MEETINGS - things I have in basements (and offices sometimes)
MASTER - a finished thing or someone who is too drunk to stand
JOB - resignation
IMAGE - lips
HOUR - an adult measurement of time in the day
GOD - fear of death
GLANCE - the best look of all - often through closing doors or drawing curtains
FEAR - wanting to be strong
FAILING - an inevitable
COLOUR - sea-blue (as the sun comes up)... sky-grey (before big raindrops)... night-black (thinking)
CITY - dirty, noisy, crowded, stifling, airless, busy, drab, impersonal
CHILDHOOD - the happiest of times - everything bigger & brighter & lighter & closer
BOTTLE IN THE SEA - hope
ANIMAL - cats & apes
DESTINY - chance / sleep / oblivion
HELL - I still, and suppose always will, see fleeting archaic images such as exist in all old christian
paintings - (but these eternal fires are soon put out by an infinity of nothingness: ie. I don't believe in
hell!!)
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