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Chicken Tonight
02:12
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I’m interested in your dreams
And in your emotions
Ingested your greens
Drank your doses and potions
Mum’s purse was stuffed with
Promotional tokens
Cut out and forgotten
Like my sociable motions
Struck dumb weird blushed face
An unquotable no one
Sucked thumb beard clutched fast
Unapproachable, broken
Brought beers in a bag
Clutched to your side
It split open
Stamped, crunch an explosion
All eyes on the frozen
Figure reposed on the sofa
Supposed to see Sandy there
But she never showed up
We had vouchers for beans
For donuts, Cheshire cheese
I’d breeze round with ease
Like I’m playing the grown up
Aisles seven, five, six
Cross my picks off the list
You get the gist
I’d get kicks from being the
Greatest
Shopper
Best runner
Over long cold summers
My parents confused by the faintest
Doppelganger
I’m present, unbruised drive the ancient
Copper dagger
Into waffle batter
Drop a clanger, act out
Get chewed and spat out
Of the frat house
I was in in a flash
Windows at the back were off the latch
And I forced the gate
Choose love not hate
Check your heart rate
Prostate and phosphates, mate
Hey, so tell me about these dreams that you’re having
You should really sketch them out in a journal or a planner
Don’t worry face down the internal attackers
I like the one with the clown, the turtles and panthers
On a boat, capsized, woe! Though you woke up with laughter
After school I recall your famous small fall
From the top bunk, thud, but kept on with the snoring
Blood dripping from your nose and staining the flooring
No, no, I shouldn’t’ve eaten two full packs of soft mints
Groan, groan, got to get home and get on the toilet
Crude truths ooze loose I always got to the spoilt it
The mood, the taboos or my gainful employment
I used to cruise on skateboards with few friends to follow
Streets all orange and the air full of pollen
I don’t feel like Chicken Tonight tonight
I don’t feel like Chicken Tonight tonight
I don’t feel like Chicken Tonight tonight
I don’t feel like Chicken Tonight tonight
I don’t feel like Chicken Tonight tonight
I don’t feel like Chicken Tonight tonight
I don’t feel like Chicken Tonight tonight
I don’t feel like Chicken Tonight tonight
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2. |
Dream House
02:24
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I’m a disappointment
A fly in the medicine
Or ointment I guess
I dress to impress
But digress frequently
Loopback needlessly
Oh, what was I saying?
I’ve forgotten your name
We moved out of the city
Dream home, felt great
Filtrated our water
Shared vistas and grapes
From the front gate
Up high
But sheltered by pines
The deer were tame
We studied each other’s eyes
Storms came
Almost blew out the fire
Ripped down the fences
Toppled Sitkas and Larches
I learnt card tricks
The biddle grip and overhand shuffle
We replanned, replanted
With no kerfuffle
One cloud-filled night
Drifted off on the sofa
Awoke with a groan to a smoky aroma
Thought I must have let the flames die
Some glitch in my system
Groped my way to the switch
But the power was missing
It was a dream house
My dream wife
I baked bread and muffins
In my dream house
With a pond and a
Green Aga oven
Living my dream life
But maybe always
Something was missing
From my dream house
And dream wife
My ears always ringing
That’s when things got weird
You see
The embers weren’t glowing
They were wet in the grate
Sian went to bed at ten
And said she slept through the night
Stuff just didn’t feel right
I heard moans in the alcoves
Pictures and furniture moving all on their own
‘You’re imagining things’
‘You’re drinking too much port wine’
Red Letters that said I’d missed payments on my court fine
Though I gave Sian the money
To pay it at the co-op
I’d collect my own honey
Take long walks alone
To deep in the forest
Cool though it’s August
Trying to lose myself
And pretty much succeeding
Walks deep in the forest
Cool though it’s August
Trying to lose myself
And pretty much succeeding
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3. |
No Regrets
02:47
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Round these parts they think I’m strange
Cos I’ve an occasional moustache
And I ride a bike that’s beige and knackered
At forty-seven
My best friend’s died
My other best friend’s married
Living in Riga
There’s a cousin, I’m yet to meet her
Was going to head over last year
Maybe next winter
I hear the beer’s stupid cheap
Didn’t make the ceremony
Livid
Had the speech written, suit delivered and everything
I’m gonna to make this right
Gonna to change those lights
Gonna travel wide
Once the dog has died
I’m gonna fix the front door
Gonna start to try
Gonna work on my core
And drink less wine
Skips outside museums
Are surprisingly thin pickings
Though I got a whiteboard from one
Used it to plot and plan
Plus an info panel on
Mespotanian agricultural practice
Hangs in my bedroom
High up above the mattress
It’s always the big toe
that breaks through the sole first
Worn smooth
Slickest as seasons switch
Underfoot on mud and ice
How does Condelisa Rice
Sleep at night
With what she’s seen
Must be like waking from bad dream
Into another bad bad dream
Co op radio has the best tunes
Dance moves smooth, baguette in left hand
Right hand dog chews
I get the blues
Sometimes
Though they disappear,
Take flight
When the sky is clear
There’s a problem with the mirror
And with the bathroom scales too
Were you supposed to call me
Or was I calling you?
I’m gonna to make this right
Gonna to change those lights
Gonna travel wide
Once the dog has died
I’m Gonna fix that door
Gonna start to try
Gonna work on my core
And drink less wine
I’m gonna to make this right
Gonna to change those lights
Gonna travel wide
Once the dog has died
I’m Gonna fix the front door
Gonna start to try
Gonna work on my core
Maybe drink less wine
Work on my core
Make this right
Start to try
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Faithful Johannes Durham, UK
Sincerity Rapper.
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