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I LOOKED BACK

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A song about impressions, about our relationship with the physical environment, about our responses to that environment, about us interpreting our place in that environment.

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I looked back by Puppeteer © 2008

I looked back
I saw a boy on a bridge in a playground looking at the sun
Blinding light
To go up is to burn
To grow up is to burn
To grow up is to burn

I looked back
I saw a teenager strolling through town in clothes to some as cool as shite to others a clown
Passing time
To live is to pass the time
To die is to pass the time
To live is to pass the time

I looked back
I saw a young man heading for war, not the kind with sergeant and guns
Marching still to the drill
I’m marching still to the kill
I’m marching and I always will
I’m marching still to the kill

I looked back
I saw a boy on a bridge in a playground looking at the sun
Blinding light
To go up is to burn
To grow up is to burn
To grow up is to burn

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released March 19, 2022
Written by PUPPETEER, played by PUPPETEER, Sung by PUPPETEER.

I wish to thank the great photographer and media artist Kamila B. Richter, whose photograph ":The Great Square Prague" was used as the artwork for this song. It was taken in 2017. You can read more about her work at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamila_B._Richter.

According to Wiki Media, "Technically out-dated mobile phones with low-resolution cameras were used to capture the nightlife on the streets of European, Asian, South- and North-American cities. For Kamila B. Richter the camera’s blurred limited phase image is the proper reflection of reality. The abstract, mediatised reality as content and old master style oil painting technique, which she layers in weeklong work stages to finish her versions of mediatised streetscapes, materialize the tension of contemporary visual culture."

This song was written in 2008 according to the scrap of paper Puppeteer found it on in 2022. It was Copyright 2008 in 2022; Publisher is CD Baby, and Music and Performance Rights managed by BMI.

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puppeteer Chicago, Illinois

who is puppeteer? i grew up of American parents in Paris and London. i became a psychologist by career, remaining a music obsessive, writing songs when i could on bits of paper. raising a family prevented creative outlet of that nature. now, as a divorced skeleton, i spend time when i can writing and recording for this collection of songs, entitled Songs of Love and Earth. ... more

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