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Challenger EP

by O'Messy Life

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1. Awkward Animals: We are two continents Two coastal shelf islands With neighbouring tectonic plates You're sending me along your good vibrations And I'm getting the shakes We are true sturgeons Two big city pigeons Two ugly ducklings made good Two plasters stuck upon one lingering question 'Remember when we both were doves' Now it all falls wherever my love Someone get God on the phone- Cry out awkward animals; cry out Weird doves Hearts sort of mangled Our stumps Point out at obscene angles From the place where they're installed With time we get so tangled up They can't ever pull us taut Someone get God on the phone Cry out awkward animals Cry out Weird doves Ardent, we fan out We show up More out of habit than hope now As we scour out the land Now we know there's no real true love We'll take the closest thing you have Someone get God on the phone Cry out awkward animals Cry out
2.
What it is is not a vision Of the earth peeled up like a tangerine And the cars all wrecked and burning As the people scream in pain Nah, it's more mundane Some quiet killer Something more humdrum In the soap suds in the kitchen In the casserole in the oven's heat In how our love keeps slowly sinking From focus in the frame And how I'm to blame Or some quiet killer Something so humdum
3.
Smoke first, then a flash of light Then no feelings at all As ahead of us a light flickers out, Fused filaments in broken bulbs We still keep your old school clothes In a drawer in our room And I still remember your first breath How I held you and I knew then I would be whatever you asked of me For this urge, this feeling Car first then the furnishings New homes for them all As we packed up into corrugated cardboard Ourselves as individuals Hands deep into the fire now Backs as strong as mules Two bodies we tow on Pallbearers of our spent youth I will be whatever you ask of me For this urge, this feeling
4.
Tiny Monster 05:55
I love you Annabel, Suppose no-one else will And I need you now - quiet as a mouse So make no sound As you get on your knees for them With the rubber over there Don't you get it? we get broke up People like us will never be repaired Late afternoon; no visits allowed And the cell walls are cold As a body in the ground By the time that you leave here You will be fully grown Take a good hard look At the evil things you've done You are this tiny monster And a child A dozen years; a new name to protect Still fold up your shirts Before you sleep the way the officers said And sneak out to the loos at work Lock the door just to feel en-caged There are bars you get out from behind There are bars that you never can escape
5.
For My Widow 05:25
It's 4 o clock in the afternoon When the nurse takes them aside And no-one knows what there is to do Now that everything's been tried Then they're alone But for the rising and the falling of your shirt They're alone But for the quiet where the words once were And the rite, the ritual The foam cup tea And the last kernel Of light and love that they don't want to leave yet They remember you in our old front room Back when you still could stand They remember your smile at the doorway As your one good hand Waved off You know no one gets too stay too long Wave off You know no one gets too stay too long My wife My widow There's love you'll leave But life's borrowed They've said goodbye, it's almost time to leave them And I miss you It's four fifteen when the ache leaves you And your slow breathing subsides You're tiny anchors in their hearts And it's time It's time It's time

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released September 8, 2018

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Awkward animals from Sunderland and sometimes others from further away than Sunderland.

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