Anthill Cries (Jun '26)

Written by Briyan Fredrick ℗ by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP | briyanfrederick.com © Briyan Fredrick Baker. All rights reserved. Briyan Fredrick: original recording (bass, synths, field recording, tapegermination), 2026 lyric, ai arrangement Tapegerm: cystem, GEMAfreie-welten From Briyan's notes regarding the original 2005 recording: I made a field recording recently of a visit to a local second hand store which you can hear in this piece which is based on the interplay between a spoken word poem found in the OurMedia Collection at archive.org and an electric piano figure from our GEMAfreie-welten cohorts. Guitars and synths are improvised against one another. The score remains unsettled. The grasshopper is mangled. The anthill is dispersed under children's feet. Tomorrow is another day. Anthill Cries The anthill's silent now The anthill's secret vow Between the prey and all the colony On that day Let know man say If evil knows no bounds Outside the sounds We must pretend are not of men Are what we tell Ourselves in hell [chorus] The children do not hear the cries Do not hear the cries Do not hear the cries What the anthill can't deny Inside where the queen… hides All of us in a devil's trust Gathered angels' lust Chant the pilgrims' vain progress Over native land Where we now stand [chorus] The children do not hear the cries Do not hear the cries Do not hear the cries What the anthill can't deny Inside where the queen… hides [bridge] But in our hearts of hearts we hear it Tightening our chests we fear it What in the daylight we laugh and jear In the darkness, all alone we wear A different kind of face That no mask hides or clears The anthill's silent now The anthill's secret vow Between the prey and all the colony On that day Let one man say [chorus] The children do not hear the cries Do not hear the cries Do not hear the cries What the anthill can't deny Inside where the queen… hides Where the queen hides Where the queen hides Where the queen hides The anthill can't deny