That Unwanted Animal
[00:12.19] There’s a second wind coming
[00:14.00] As we lie here in our bed
[00:16.00] It rattles the bones of our fathers
[00:18.01] Carries whispers from the dead
[00:19.53] And you, you light a candle
[00:23.05] And I make sure the bairns are fed
[00:27.82] You turn the telly on
[00:29.33] To drown out your fear
[00:31.83] You make the bed up silent on the floor
[00:34.09] So no-one will hear us
[00:35.60] You try so loud to love me
[00:38.36] But I cannot seem to hear
[00:43.14] Cause you, you touch
[00:45.17] My skin peels off like paint
[00:47.18] But beneath all of our panting
[00:48.94] There’s this noise I cannot shake
[00:50.95] Can’t you hear that scratching?
[00:53.96] There’s something at the door
[00:58.48] But the wind has picked us up now
[01:00.49] We’re hanging in the air
[01:02.52] And as you grip me like an animal
[01:04.54] That you’re about to spear
[01:06.05] ‘Be good to me,’ I whisper. And you say ‘what’. And I say ‘nothing dear.’
[01:14.33] Can’t you hear it?
[01:17.84] It can hear you
[01:21.36] It wants me to
[01:29.14] Throw the plate at the wall
[01:44.20] I’m the paper cut that kills you
[01:46.00] I’m the priest that you ignored
[01:47.76] I’m the touch you crave, I’m the plans that you made, but fuck all your plans I’m bored
[01:51.02] And can’t you hear that scratching?
[01:54.56] I ask your eyes
[01:58.17] I’ve got knuckle burn from typing all these lines into your chest
[02:01.93] And as the belt from your buckle is tightening I make shipwrecks out of my dress
[02:04.98] And the door below it splinters
[02:08.10] And the creature creeps inside
[02:12.38] And we fall into each other
[02:14.20] The scratching grows so loud
[02:15.97] Because that unwanted animal
[02:17.57] Wants nothing more than to get out
[02:19.10] And I scream ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’
[02:21.36] But you, you’re blind, you bleat, you bear your claws
[02:26.53] And you rip my ribcage open
[02:28.30] And devour what’s truly yours
[02:30.06] And our screaming joins in unison
[02:31.86] I cry out to the lord
[02:33.36] Cause if we join our hands in prayer enough
[02:35.39] To God I imagine it all starts to sound like applause
[02:40.93] Can’t you hear it?
[02:44.46] It can hear you
[02:47.73] It wants me to….
[03:08.84] And these plates they smash like waves (Place your hand in mine)
[03:12.39] And on the wind it howls (How long can this last?)
[03:15.69] But that second wind is coming love, it’s coming for all we own
[03:19.46] And on the creature scratches, it doesn’t know how to get out (Let me out)
[03:22.72] And you, you follow philosophies
[03:24.74] But me, I laugh I choke
[03:26.29] ‘Well hello, my hollow Holofernes’
[03:28.05] I wink but you don’t get the joke
[03:30.08] ‘Hold the hand of the god-child’ they said ‘As he falls from the sky'
[03:33.62] ‘Be good to me’ I beg of him
[03:35.40] ‘Be good to me’ I beg of him
[03:37.17] Be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good
[03:40.72] And he replies…
[03:43.99] ‘No no, not I.’
