The Jungle Woman (song concept) part 1
[a semi-automatic-writing excerpt]…
The Capture of the Jungle Woman (from the point of view the jungle woman).
[…] who are you? what do you want? why are you here? where are you taking me? i didn’t consent. what right have you? i will resist. I will leave you. the moment you turn your back, I’m gone. i’ll never be a possession. you people, your society, all trying to possess each other. i live in a world that is wild and difficult. i live with beasts. i live alone and am not afraid. Not until this day. I’m afraid of you and your ’safe’ world of lies and control. you want to control me, not save me. disguise it however you like — as ’security’, as ‘help’, as ‘education’ — but leave me out. leave me. leave me. i’m not yours — not yours to save, not yours to help, not yours to ‘educate.’
i’ll give you an education, soon enough.
you are backwards people, i can tell. i don’t know your language, but i know when you’re telling lies, the look of deceit in your eyes, the clues you pretend not to see. you revel in being deceived. almost as much as you do in deceiving. i am not one of you. i am not confused. you will get no mixed messages from me. i will make my intentions clear, as i do now, as i cry out in protest, as i pull and fight. you have no right, no right, no right. you’ll be searching again by the fall of night.
what is this movement without feet? what is this, this unnatural beast? a lazy life. i feel nautious. but you don’t care. you only wish to possess. i’ll go back to my home, which is the wild, the earth and the sky. and one day i’ll return to my true home and so will you. we’ll meet again and maybe then, you’ll finally understand.
now is my chance. you’re dumber than i thought. and you project your naivity onto me — a wild animal and a free being! i don’t play by your rules. i never learned them. though i discerned them in under a day. and this is the way that you don’t see. the way is to discern but not to learn. to know but not to obey. i speak to all of you, not only the slaves. i speak to the slaves of the game itself.
now who lets out cries and yells? the ones who ignored mine from the start. i will always be free. don’t you see? it’s too late. you didn’t catch my mind in time, and now you never will. i return to the jungle and now I’m the wiser. thank you for this lesson in humanity, so called. thank you. and may you one day be free.
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are you going to turn this into a song? that would be interesting..keep rockin brooke
yeah, I have this song experiment I recorded awhile ago which has a part about an actual feral woman that was captured, I forget when or where. In the recording I’m just sing-reading from a news clip about it quoted in a Tim Boucher post. I’m going to post the song clip soon, and I’ll link to Tim’s post too, when I find it.
Anyway, I only have a verse and it’s from the perspective of the people who found her. So I want to expand that into a full song. I’m going to have to make it up, though (with the power of pure imagination!), because I haven’t been able to track down any more information about it. I’m really fascinated by the story. It kind of gets to me.
So I wanted to write something from the jungle woman’s perspective as well.. That’s where this stuff comes from. I was sort of ‘tranced out’ while writing it though (”automatic writing” as it’s called), and need to pear it down and make it more ’songy’, obviously.
But in the end there will be two songs about the Jungle Woman — one from her perspective and one from that of her captors/’rescuers’.
So do you think you channeled the jungle woman?
I think I am a jungle woman trapped in a man’s body….or actually a jungle man trapped in a jungle woman…trapped in a man’s body.
But soon I will be a tundra man!
Seriously though, I think you channeled that Junglewoman.
maybe so. it’s what actors do. I think it’s a blurry line between imagination and channeling. I think one often leads to the other.
so when do you split for Alaska???
june.
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