Signwriter

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TJ Eckleberg

T. J. Eckleberg is a musician, producer, poet and theatre director originally from Sydney. He was the artistic director at Shopfront, an Australian contemporary arts centre between 2004 and 2010. His name comes from Dr. T. J. Eckleburg, a fictional oculist in The Great Gatsby. A fictional oculist, and financier of music producer Yul Singh, named Dr. T. J. Eckleburg also appears in The Ground Beneath Her Feet. He has lived in London, Berlin, and Kyoto. more »

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Bite your nails like a telegraph 
Squint to read the neon signs 
Sitting at the wooden table 
Drinking sake after midnight

You scanned the horizon
Read the jet stream
Peeled open oranges
Dissected seeds 
Threw the dandelions into the breeze 
And didn't it get brighter, signwriter?

And the ducks on the river go round the outside
Round the outside, round the outside
The river flows south and smiling, wide
The night gets dark and the morning brighter
Signwriter

You didn't write back in German
Cause you'd forgotten the numbers and shapes 
You still recall the smell of petrol in the car
After you walked out the gate

You scanned the horizon
Read the jet stream
Peeled open oranges, dissected seeds 
You threw the dandelions into the breeze 
And didn't it get brighter, signwriter?

Your whiskey grin
And talk of winning
If you stack the cards right
You can build a house
And the words come slowly from your mouth 
Windows wide open
A smiling river facing south

You scanned the horizon
Read the jet stream
Peeled open oranges 
Dissected seeds 
You threw the dandelions into the breeze 
And didn't it get brighter, signwriter?

Didn't it get brighter, signwriter?

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