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Dramatic Reenactment

from Music for a While by Liam the Younger

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lyrics

I feared myself in the heath
Like hounds
Like falling down
I was a kid and the dogs were forever bigger
Awesome reaching hands of the past
clutching at me in my sleep
To crop and enhance
Magically, always, enhance enhance
Pull back the camera to my memory
Now close up, closer still, until I wake up
and the morning construction begins again

Each scene is a song
Sunlight is a game
A day today
What to do?
Read about collapsing
of all sorts
Rana plaza, C.C.
and nuclear war
God, I’m afraid of nuclear war
Don’t buy new clothing
from a chain store

Watch the crows waiting at a red light
Crows crossing at the cross walk
Are we being encircled?
Is this a threat or a romance?
Friends without a language
An antidote to be poisoned
Letting the snakes bite you
A particular madness
A dramatic reenactment

Spinning out tears
for my own web
Personal historical development
No more suffering for artifice
Drama isn’t negative
Don’t we all live for it?
Boring people get bored
I’m shivering thinking about them
Prayers are harmless
and I’ll pray for you
Talking to people can be helpful too
Not everyone is hell bent on being cruel
But the question that’s nagging me today
How do we forget about the sense of things? or
Can a certain nonsense be meaningful?
The nonsense of spacing out, forgetting to eat
Forgetting to push the fucking button
I’m lost with rationality
In what order, if any,
should we approach the intractable
from our sick-bed?
Until we’ve regained our strength
sabotage the management
It was all a trick and they fell for it
Not reformed or reconstructed
Unreleased from our habits
Probation granted
Let’s skip the border

Where are we going?

Well, we’re going further
Forward without bitterness
It’s later than you think

Doing what we want
for our own good
Stay awhile
Have another drink

So the day to day
keeps going on and on
The landscape churns
Laughter echoes through the halls

Open to fantasy
Putting on disguises
Look at that
We’re invisible

Now more than before
More support
Spilling all your angel guts
across the floor
Not too bad but
always wanting more
I’m that dusk
That perfume of descending air

Running in the grass
Lying in the fields
My heart is in my hands
Feels like I’m dubbing on air

Sunny turns away
August moon day
Heaven waiting underground
Dance like nothing exists

The impossibility
of stopping this awful thing
may exceed and surround us
Filled up with wild fear

But if you say it is what it is
then take a knife to what it is

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from Music for a While, released June 15, 2018

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Liam Betson is a North American songwriter.

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