• THE SHADOW

• (2022)

Rough Band • Death Walk • Solo • Solar

• Who is that in the shadow ahead?

• Quiet isolation brings earthing and focus.

• Keep looking forward, but sense behind.

• You’ll never be lonely, tied to yourself.

• The Shadow is a simple self-guided Death Walk for sunset. It was featured on the Rough Band website from 2022 onwards. The guide text below, written by O, forms the basis of the Death Walk but all aspects of it are for you to make your own. Distance plays no part, and in fact maybe it’s actually a watch: A Death Watch.

• A SHADOW GUIDE TEXT

• Death walks behind you,

• but your whole life is ahead.

• • Backwards, everything’s backwards.

  • Trip over your shadow.

• Walk with words,

• from atomic fragments and solar suites.

• Step forward,

• with the west warming your nape.

• Tied only to yourself.

• No chord, only you.

• Old long legs of the lane.

• Hide away from the bad,

• count the loves that you've had.

• Forget what is done.

• Move on, move on.