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Domestic Drama

from Poignant Device by The Sad Song Co.

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lyrics

The whale swallowed me
Why did everyone hold their silence?
Couldn't they see that her violence was waiting for a child to release it?
And that she could only take it out on me?

And she said "there's not room to swing a cat in here
Better buck up your ideas
I'm in need of someone to rely upon
And even though you're close
I don't think you're it"

I loved so, what else could I do but try?

Gave up teaching, went junior managerial at the bank
Decent package, company car, could take me all the way
Just had to give up my soul, my conscience, every third weekend
My social life, my self-esteem and thirteen hours a day

But still...

"It's not good enough, you're not good enough, you're letting us down
Your own flesh and blood"

Sucked up to the boss then hacked his life to pieces
With planted pictures of underage teens
Only sleep three hours a night to do my share of parenting
Who would guess the damage done by under eighteens?

But still...

"It's not good enough, you're not good enough, you're letting us down
Your own flesh and blood"

Tortured me for years, blood running from my ears
All that repressed pain couldn't help but shift the blame
To my own flesh and blood

She bricked up all the doors, she plastered all the flaws
She left a tiny hole to let in air
You'd be mad to crawl through there
You'd have to be mad to squeeze through there

Silently up the stairs, watching outside myself
Being what I shouldn't be
I saw myself beside the cot
I touched his face, his skin was hot
His panicked eyes looked up at me
I know you don't understand
I know you can't understand

1... (wait 'til the movement stops...)
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In the still of perfect sleep I'll remove the mote that's killing me
Do you understand this, all about love?
She's so beautiful, I'm so numb
Her throat collapsed beneath my thumbs
I made the call, I didn't even try to run
From the cell with weird white walls
A cell with weird soft walls
They bricked up all the doors
They bricked up all the doors

Now grey and cloudy like a dream it seems they came to visit me
The world drifts out of reach
My eyes look but they don't see
The whale swallowed me

When you think of me light a candle for me

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from Poignant Device, released October 1, 2007
Structural aid - Mark Kelly

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The Sad Song Co. Oxford, UK

Solo albums from multi-instrumentalist Nigel Powell, previously of Unbelievable Truth, Dive Dive, Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls.

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