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Awkward Animals
05:06
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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
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Quotidian Horsemen
03:21
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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
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Oh Surly Bonds
05:52
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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
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Tiny Monster
05:55
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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
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For My Widow
05:25
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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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O'Messy Life Newcastle
Awkward animals from Sunderland and sometimes others from further away than Sunderland.
Current form:
David and Jen
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