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| irn | 8105 |
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| master_duration | 3:46 |
| master_sample_rate | 48kHz |
| master_bit_depth | 24 bit |
| master_channels | 2 |
| media_reference | 001046 |
| media_source | PrideNZ.com |
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| copyright_ownership | |
| copyright_ownership_note | The music, vocals and audio production in this recording were generated using artificial intelligence tools and no copyright is claimed in those elements; lyrics by Gareth Watkins are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). |
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| public_url | https://www.pridenz.com/ewip_can_you_imagine_v1.html |
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| production_date | 01-03-2026 |
| production_day | 01 |
| production_month | 03 |
| production_year | 2026 |
| recording_type | Performance |
| series | Equality: A Work in Progress |
| sub_series | |
| title | Can You Imagine (v1) - Equality: A Work in Progress |
| description | Jim has returned from Sydney to his family home in rural New Zealand after months of feeling increasingly unwell. Before leaving Australia, he had what was then being called an AIDS blood test. In 1985, these tests were still new, and results could take a couple of weeks to come through - sometimes by telephone.The home page for the musical can be found here. The human-authored lyrics and dramatic structure by Gareth Watkins are licensed under the CC BY 4.0 licence; reuse and adaptation with attribution are permitted and encouraged. See the full licensing statement. Jim Hertz:. [Verse 1]Can you imagine, being in a roomBut slightly to the side of yourselfoutside of myselfRemembering how I said I’d never returnAnd yet here I amIn the family living room, a living room[Verse 2]And the kettle’s onThe clock keeps doingTick, tick, tickAnd the phone ringsAnd the doctor’s voicecomes down the line[Verse 3]His words don’t land togetherfragments of clinical and everydaySo I try catching them,grabbing them, one by oneTrying to make them make senseAnd they don’t, and they won’t[Verse 4]There’s something about my testAnd something about infectionBut nothing, I mean nothing about my futureAnd then there’s a pause, a deathly pauseLike he’s holding my breathAnd I’m holding my breath[Verse 5]And then one wordJust oneIt doesn’t sound like any word I knowIt sounds like a sentenceAnd that stops meAnd it stops me[Verse 6]The fridge humsA car goes pastA clock ticks, ticks, boomAnd I only catch fragmentsLittle treatmentPrepare yourself[Verse 7]He then asks a final questionAnd I don’t hear itI don’t hear itBut the message is receivedThe message is received[Outro]And the world sharpensIt’s too fast, too focusedEvery sound too closeClosing me downThe world sharpensAnd I can’t imagine me anymorePlease, let me imagine like before. |
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| interviewer | |
| voices | Jim Hertz (AI) |
| tags | Homosexual Law Reform; 1980s; 2020s; artificial intelligence; homosexual law reform; musicals; chatgpt.com; landr.com; suno.com; Aotearoa New Zealand; Homosexual Law Reform Act (1986); Jim Hertz (AI) |
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| location_name | Aotearoa New Zealand |
| location | Aotearoa New Zealand |
| broader_location | Oceania |
| location_lat | -41.31365732822295 |
| location_long | 174.9663587560924 |
| precise_locality | false |