Week 45 of "good composer/dead composer"--an ongoing collaboration between composer Simon Brown and filmmaker Josh Deane. The project consists of 52 music videos made and released over the course of a year--ending in a massive art show featuring Simon Brown's music, all of the videos, and visual art made especially for the occasion.

Video guest directed by Ivan Sokolov

LYRICS
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there’s an old man who watches the town
he watches and waits and writes everything down
nothing escapes his old eyes they’re so sore
and the stories he writes are all metaphors

battles he can’t stop and ones that he can
nothing escapes the man’s trembling pen
he’s a receiver, a crumbling believer,
he’s been there forever and ever and ever

children around him hop scotch and wear glasses,
throw pitches, pass passes, and run from mathematics
the curious ones ask him bout his odd accent
but quickly are shepherded back to their classes

and no one who’s older than thirty
who owns their own house and makes decent money
would ever consider to ask him a damn thing
they don’t have the time and besides, he is crazy

and so he hosts parties with all of the outcasts
drinks nectar ambrosia and talks of the past
when i first saw him i thought he was kidding
he turns away no one and rules like a king

the king of the crazies the king of the weird
it took me so long to find out he’s sincere
they read all their poems, he lets them go on
and they go on and go on not once does he yawn

and he thanks them and asks them to read just one more
and then we all eat cookies and head to the door
i think about him and i hope he’s alive
cause i’d like to say thank you to him one last time

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