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SHIFTY LOVE

by Shifty September

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Limpet Mine from the album “Bigger than Jesus” 1989 she comes wrapped like a mummy with a tear in her heart / ‘n she can dance like a bushfire / blow you apart / she says witch doctor wrong diagnosis / is it love that makes your fingers move around in a rubber glove ? / there is pain in the air you’re wasted and spent your mind’s fucked up your head is all bent / like a pressure gauge somebody pushed a button and she flew into a rage / she’s mine she’s a limpet mine stuck to the seat like chewing gum / children rocking to the beat in a bus shelter / heaven help her / count the little feet / chewing out the rhythm on the cold concrete / it’s a crime to die / to be poor or to see / more than another a log or a tree in your eye remove the plank from your own and your brother will forgive and throw another stone / give it back it’s a bomb / it’s a hand grenade / they found her at a party in the lemonade / she peaks like a cap and kicks like a mule somebody’s got to tell her that she ought to be at school / she’s mine / she’s a Limpet Mine she blew up in my face / throwing bits of furniture all over the place / she says go back to base and I’ll guarantee / they’ve made another model for humanity / with bits of wood and plastic glue he’s a superhuman baby he can break you in two / he’s got a wrist watch you understand a time bomb hidden in his prostate gland /he’s muscle bound with hair on his face /he’s winning hands down in the arms race / he’s agent orange insecticide stripping down trees no place to hide / he says “case the joint before we leave / take what you can no reprieve “ give him back he’s a bomb he’s a hand grenade we found him at a party in the lemonade / He’s mine / he’s a Limpet Mine / yellow at heart founded a nation that lived apart with it’s head in the sand ostracised praying to a God that didn’t sympathise / he can shit like a brick and brake like as bike in a camouflage suit he’s outasite like FAT Boy one and Enola Gay he’s right on target and here to stay /you can squeeze him through a briefcase push him through your shirt leave him on a train til he’s ready to burst / he’s a mine / we’re Limpet Mines living in a country that’s blowing apart.
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Shifty Records, the Alliance Française of Johannesburg & the South African History Archive (SAHA) present SHIFTY SEPTEMBER:

A Heritage Month tribute to the Shifty Records music label, combining exhibitions, documentary screenings, panel discussions and concerts to celebrate the Shifty story of musical activism in the struggle for democracy in South Africa.

Shifty September took place in Johannesburg throughout September 2014 to celebrate Shifty's 30th birthday, the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking Voëlvry tour, and to mark 20 years of democracy in South Africa.

The intention behind the Shifty September programme was to:

Celebrate Shifty's legacy by drawing attention to its rich history and back catalogue at events and with multiple compilation and commemoration album releases throughout the month, culminating in the SHIFTY HERITAGE MUSIC FESTIVAL: Viva la Différence! at the Bassline on 24 September 2014;
Use the Shifty Story as a lens to consider the role of protest music in the making of democracy in South Africa through exhibitions, discussions and screenings;
Provide wider public access to this history of musical activism through SAHA's archives (to be available for public consultation at Constitution Hill and online from September 2014);
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