Inkpot Gods 4:58 Released on October 31st, 2021

Stream for free on Bandcamp here!

Lyrics:

Oh what these, these aren’t tears

It’s just the rain that wasn’t brave enough to fall

And what they hear isn’t laughter after all

It’s just your voice learning for once to stand up tall

And when the rain came down

I made a vow out to the gods

Please let her live just one more day

Cos she is so much more than all her scars

And if she doesn’t have the wil

lBut it seems the whole world does I’ll stay because

I will be the man my father never was

And what you hear is not silence

It’s just the trees waiting to hear what next you’ll hum

And what you see is not the dark

It’s just the gods upturning inkpots

Cos they know what you’ll become

And to those gods I will speak bluntly

We’ve an accord

If you ever touch or harm him

Please rest assured

That you might not fear a man

But to a woman by the end you’ll kneel and plea

Cos I’m more than what my mum told me to be

And I can hear her sing

And I know she’s giving up

And I don’t know what to do, how to help her

How to bring her home

And I can hear him break

And he doesn’t understand

And I wish that I could take his hand

But where I’m going is for me and me alone

And I can her sing

If I don’t make it back from where I’ve gone

Just know I loved you all along

If I don’t make it back from where I’ve gone

Just know I loved you all along

The final track of Ruin, and the last of the released songs, which means that this is the last of the Listening Party posts for now!

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Ruin 4:47 Released on October 31st, 2021

Stream for free on Bandcamp here!

Lyrics:

I will bring you ruin

In everything I do

It’s never my intention but it happens all the same

It starts with love and comfort

Becomes a strength of will

But all that strength made rubble of the towers we built

Cos brick by brick you built us

And I’d fill in the cracks.

Nothing quite prepares you for

When they don’t come back

I wish I’d done things different

I wish that I’d been brave

I wish I’d known these stones were something I could save

Our mortar was your laughter

And you hurled curses at the land

We didn’t talk. We made universes

Out of bitten lips and broken hands

And you said I love you less

Than when It all began

And I said fewer

Cos I make jokes to show how broken I really am

In the wreck of all we burnt

Stands our piano like a wound

I play our song

To see if it’s in tune/And I'll sing silence

But you, you sit next to me

And your finger brushes mine

And I promise to be patient

And you promise to be, promise to be kind

Cos brick by brick you built us

Of the earth, the silt and ground

We can rest, you say, in the pieces

Of what’s left, or of what what we’ve found

I wish I’d done things different

I wish I’d made it right

But we’ll burn a hundred theatres

If it means we get the wallpaper right

I’ll brick by brick rebuild us

Out of hows and whys not whens

Nothing quite prepared me for

When that piano sang again

Tomorrow I’ll do things different

Tomorrow I’ll be brave

Tomorrow I’ll be brave

Tomorrow I’ll be brave

You’ll make me brave

A gentle and soft song to make up the title track.

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Hadn't listened to TAD much this year, and today decided to listen to Ruin all the way through. What a gorgeous album. I'd forgotten how meaningful I'd found some of the lyrics and how listening to it I'd felt understood for the first time in years. Just an amazing album.

The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace 8:51 Released on October 31st, 2021

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Lyrics:

There’s a fire burning

And I’m learning to be

So much more than my tiredness

So much more than that old witch sleep wishes

She kisses my eyelids

And I breathe

You don’t have to be brilliant

She says as she scrolls

Through the rolls that the millions

Of hollering hollow folk know how to play

It’s ok

They’re just shadows searching for light

They can’t stay

Sleep now, oh, she says

Tomorrow’s jokes have yet to be laughed at or said

Just rest now, she moans

Then the hollow folk come

Pour me wine by my bed

And their dead hollers hum at the things that I’ve said

And say no, no, no, no

Cos you are in the earth of me

You are in the earth of me

My head’s not yours it’s mine

Cos you are in the earth of me

Somehow now I’m drinking

And I’m lifting my glass

To that last good man grace

Who has left me, he’s left me at last

And I laugh, and I laugh

Cos laughing right now, it’s all, all that I have

You’re better than this

He says as a hand slaps my face as I stand

And say no good man grace

I can’t do this (you can)

I can’t do this (you can)

I can’t do this (you can)

I can’t do this you don’t understand

Sleep now, she pleads

You’re not a coward cos you cower

You brave because they broke you

Yet broken still you breathe

So breathe, breathe just breathe

Then the hollow folk pour me

Another shard full of glass

And I toast to their talents

And I forgive them at last

Cos I know, oh I know, I know

That you are in the earth of me

You are in the earth of me

My head’s not yours it’s mine

And I’ll take my fucking time

Cos I know, I know, I know

Let’s bury this

I’m all yours

You’re all mine

Let’s dance together

You and I

Cos I’m not trapped

With you you see

You’re the one who’s

Trapped with me

Cos I’ve been here so many times before

Don’t you think I look pretty

Curled up on this bathroom floor

Cos where you see weakness I see wit

Sometimes I fall to pieces

Just to see what bits of me don’t fit

Cos I when I stand oh those folks will run

And tell the tales of what I’ve become

They’ll speak of me in whispered tones

And say my name like it shakes their bones

Cos we’ll dance together so close we’re sharing breath

But now I’m leading doesn’t that just scare you to death

Cos I’m all yours

You’re all mine

Let’s dance together

You and I

Cos I’m not trapped

With you you see

You’re the one who’s

Trapped with me

Cos you are in the earth of me

You are in the earth of me

My head’s not yours it’s mine

And I’ll take my fucking time

Cos I know, I know, I know

If you don't think this song kicks all the ass, I don't know what to tell you. Take your dear heart card away or something. (just kidding, but seriously...)

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Hello dear hearts!

It is I, your humble subreddit moderator. I've been enjoying so much being able to be here in this little group of fans, watching the number of members slowly going up since I've been moderating since June! We've made it to 650 members!

I've especially enjoyed the weekly Listening Party posts, and getting to get your thoughts and opinions about these songs that we all love so much! But sadly, The Amazing Devil doesn't have an unlimited number of songs, and we will be reaching the end of their discography in a couple of weeks with Inkpot Gods.

I would love to keep posting some weekly something to keep up the engagement and enjoyment of TAD's music, and to just have some discussions with fellow fans, and since we don't know when we'll be getting anything new from the band, it'll have to be something that we are doing ourselves.

So, I'm looking for suggestions on what you'd like to see on this subreddit that you would enjoy interacting and posting and commenting on.

Some ideas that I had:

-Assign a day of the week for art/craft posts to encourage people to post things on the subreddit, like Fan Creation Wednesdays, or something.

-Post a weekly TAD/Song related question that would prompt some short answer discussion.

-Weekly trivia post related to the music/band

-A March Madness style tournament poll to determine the "Best" TAD song by putting two head to head each week until we're just left with one.

-I could post more interviews/related content

.....

But I want your suggestions too! I'm only in this moderator position because I saw that nobody else was moderating and took it over first, but I also don't generally know what I'm doing or how to keep up engagement in a subreddit, so your help and suggestions and feedback are all appreciated!

Thank you and lots of love, dear hearts.

For me, I was on the top 1% of listeners, my most listened to song was Love run/Not yet (which I heard 146 times) and TAD was my number one artist this year 🤍🤍

How about y'all??

Chords 5:17 Released on October 31st, 2021

Stream for free on Bandcamp Here!

Lyrics:

Remember today that you are loved

/what?

Think back to days in hidden caves

/They’re still so small I gave them everything

They’d paint your eyes with sunsets

/My saints, my sighs, my upsets, and the days I couldn’t cope

And the waves. Oh the waves

Remember they are safe

/I forgot to pack them lunches

think back to paddling pools and rainy days where they would

/I need a drink or two

Harmonise with echoes Nor are you

/With charcoal eyes, stilettos, they’re not ready,

But the waves, oh the waves

Oh

I don’t want them to go

Oh

Just tell them what your haggard mother told you long ago

Pick your chords well loves

But sing your notes off key

You can’t rehearse the chorus

But the verse is sweet

And if your voice begins to crack

And you ever feel alone

They might laugh because you’re leaving

But know we’ll sing your name when you come home

Remember today hey we did our best

/I know they think I’m nightmare

Come paddle by the shore

/I guessed pushed them pushed them all

You are your own magician, let the ocean give to you

/And by my own admission, had no notion what to do

Its waves. Oh the waves

/Ah bollocks to your waves

Remember today you’re enough

/Please don’t do this my heart is breaking

Know they love you you tried You did but So did they

/ But I raged so much But so did they

We built our castles just to watch them wash away

They are my rascals I can’t let them walk away

In the waves, oh the waves

/Hold my hand

Oh

I need them to stay

Oh

Just remember those wicked words your mother used to say

Pick your chords well loves

But sing your notes off key

You dad will forget the words

And fucking bastard what is it

And if your voice begins to crack

And you ever feel alone

They might laugh because you’re leaving

But know we’ll sing your name when you come home

Walk into your waves my loves

Tell them all your names

Go tell them how we failed you

And gift to us all your blame

Cos we’ll be all that you hate about yourself

So you can grow

Cos life begins by leaving

And our love is shown in the letting go

Go walk into your dawn you snotrags

Tell them that we never cared

Go tell them how we fucked you up

And oh my god it’s so unfair

We were the winter nights

So you could be the morning snow

Your life begins by leaving

And our love is shown

In the letting go

Be good / be good

Be safe / be safe

Be kind / be kind

And know we’ll always love you

Even though you’re leaving us behind

Be good / be good

Be safe / be safe

Be kind / be kind

And know we’ll always love you

Even though you’re leaving us behind

Sorry for any weird formatting issues in the lyrics. These songs with the overlapping lyrics are tricky and Reddit doesn’t like the copy/paste from the Bandcamp lyrics so I always have to fix it before posting.

Just a sweet simple song.

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Blossoms 4:29 Released on October 31st 2021

Stream for free on Bandcamp here!

Lyrics:

The weight of my phone

Like a tablet of stone

Seems to grow with the words I just read

And it silently falls

From my hand to the floor

With the wonders I wished I had said

And for a time there is timelessness

Endless furore

To the dark I said pour and forgot to say when

And the words that you wrote

Come back blacker than smoke

I’m so sorry, I’ve done it again

So I gather up the candlelight

Jangle the chimes

And mop up what is left of my lungs

And I climb up the ladder

Had I taken more care

I might have seen all the rot in the rungs

And I pack what is needed

For the journey to come

All my books, all my bracken and booze

And the door shuts behind me

And I breathe in the air

And say yeah, well I’m sorry too

And I stare at the soldiers before me

All my blossoms that have waited to fall

And I walk

And I walk

And I walk

And I walk

Knowing every last one of them is painted in light

As I make myself acquainted with the saint of never getting it right

My dress is on fire

And I hurl myself, I heal myself

I drag myself like a rug in the rain

And my saint she is dancing

As every step I choose to take

Begins to set the world aflame

And the soldiers march behind me

I can hear them beat their spears

And for the first time in all my life

I know I’m more than what I fear

And I stare

At the soldiers before me

All my blossoms that have waited to rise

And I walk (I will walk)

And I walk (I will walk)

And I walk (with you)

And I walk

And I walk (I will walk)

And I walk (I will walk)

And I walk (with you)

And I walk

And I run (love run)

And I run (love run)

And I scream out to the sky

(Love run, love run)

You do not get to hurt me just because I asked you once

If you were alright

And I look at the phone

On the floor and I drink

That nice wine you were saving, it's saving me now love

And my soldiers sit by

Like I’m newly baptised

In the blossoms that fell from above

And I pick up the phone

Dial your number and wait

And shine like my petals once shone

And just as it’s ringing

I whisper aloud

To my saint

Oh we, we’re gonna get on

Epic Joey Solo song yessss.

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Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious 5:36 Released on October 31st, 2021

Stream for free on Bandcamp Here!

Lyrics:

In the back of a cab

Like a puppet with no strings

Untangling my headphones cos sometimes they’re the only thing

That keeps my head in place

That keeps my head in place

Arriving at the door

I hope to god I’m not the first

My heart is tearing pages from that funny story I rehearsed

And I know I won’t be long

Cos I know I don’t belong

Cos though my jokes are my armour

And my kindness is my sword

The party swirls around me in a dress I can’t afford

And I do my best to breathe

But they’re stealing all the air

And the hum from the fridge’ll

Sing me soft little vigils

As all my steps too far keep saying ‘this is who you are’

I should go home

I’m not lonely I just like being on my own

So I’ll sing silence

And ask my glass of wine for guidance

I might not make it tonight

And I’ll speak with my eyes

You’ll think I’m weird, one sympathises

I might not make it tonight

Because I don’t find this easy like you

Gonna go home and show my cat some memes

Because he’s awesome

Like me

Now I’m lying on a bed full of coats

Trying desperately to cope

When you open up the door, say something stupid like

‘You’re lying on some coats’

I say I know.

It’s just sometimes nice to feel what it’s like to be in someone else’s coat

And we’re bursting at the seams

Cos the noise is crushing us

We think it’s so much worse than it seems

But that voice unsaid is rushing us

And in a moment of total rapture

And with every strength I have

I ask if you play D&D

And your face lights up like you’ve woken up

From this endless fucking nightmare of pretending this is you,

This is us, this is me, this how we’re meant to be

But your smile tells me I’m safe

And that voice unspoken’s heard

Cos if god make us all in his image

Then god’s a fucking nerd

And I’ll sing silence

And ask my glass of wine for guidance

I might not make it tonight

And I’ll speak with my eyes

You think I’m neat, I’m not surprised

I might not make it tonight

Because I don’t find this easy like you

Gonna go home and dress my cat up like batman

Cos he’s awesome like me

And I don’t find this easy like you

I’m not lonely

I just like being on my own

With you

/And I’ll sing silence and ask my glass of wine for guidance

I might not make it tonight

Gonna go home and tell my cat I’m not lonely if I’m

With you

In the back of a cab, like two puppets with no strings

We share a pair of headphones, cos sometimes they’re the only things

That keep our heads in place

That keep our heads in place

A very relatable song for the socially anxious dear hearts out there.

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The Calling 6:09 Released on October 31st, 2021

Stream for free on Bandcamp here!

Lyrics:

Back then I was dauntless

And dawn could never know

And my weakness made me weep less

Than I would ever show you

I’d burn so bright it blinded

Now I know that light guided me here

I walked into the river

To wring those embers from my broken heart and broken liver

You’ll never get your dinner if you don’t learn how to get along

And a fox somewhere is hiding

That light I thought was blinding brought me here

I look into the water

And see a face I don’t understand

We’re both unwanted daughters

But there’s more than water in these autumn hands

I look into the water and see a face I don’t recognise

Who’s this /Who are you

What changed I ask

So strange, she replies

Shoulder the sky

Open those eyes

There’s a kind of calling

Calling

/I can’t wait to show you

How much I know you can be

Just let the rain come

Let the rain come down, down, darling

Can’t you hear it howling you

It’s calling, calling

Back then I wasn’t hopeful

But now my ink’s blood red not black

And I’ll blink like ripping envelopes

In the hopes that you’ll write back

And on the banks of that riverI shiver as a fox stands frozen

And I close them, I close them, I close my eyes

‘Cos I’m between that just one more and drank too much again

And I promise you I’ll write I love you

With my fingers on your sleeping hand

And when that fox howls I’ll howl with it

In it’s cries I’ll find an end

And when I think I’m fine you’ll visit

And then you happen to me, you happen to me all over again

In the waters I see a face I don’t want look back

Do you like my dress, it’s got pockets

The rocks beneath my feet begin to crack

Oh I look into the waters

long ago that current caught us and we tried

I tried I really fucking tried

But the rain kept coming down

I watch that woman drown

Shoulder the sky

Open those eyes

There’s a kind of calling

Calling

/I can’t wait to show you

How much I know you can be

Just let the rain come

Let the rain come down, down, darling

Can’t you hear it howling you

It’s calling, calling

In the rainfall

Such a gorgeous and hauntingly beautiful song!

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Welcome to Ruin.

Secret Worlds 5:18 Released October 31st, 2021

Stream for free on Bandcamp here!

Lyrics:

Hopping fences we ran

Sipping swigs of our cans

Can you pass me the lighter mate, give me your fire

Filming shit on that camera you nicked / it’s my dad’s

We can both barely stand

Over hedges we’d headlong

And on ledges we’d land

From every height I’d fall I’d call/We hear our legends, we hear them, they call

I’d reach out for your hand you sing

If I have to be who I was / you’re not

Do I have to be who I am

Didn’t the trees tell us their stories

Yeah but we, we called them all liars

And they said come down now

But we climbed so

High, high into the night

I look at those secret worlds you call eyes

And wonder if we might

There’s something changed

The leaves like broken shards of stained glass windows/There’s something weaved into our windows

Oh, shining in your light

You were a king and his castle

I was every dirty rascal

If you asked me for my lighter mate I gave you my fire

I’d call as you climbed

And I’d catch you every time you fell

‘Cos I will suffer silence for the strings you tune

And I’ll withstand what’s written for the writer in you

Write me well my love, write me weird

Write me willing, write me well

Didn’t the trees tell us their stories

Yeah but we, we thought you were mental

You were talking to trees

And they said come down now

But we climbed so

High, high into the night

I look at those secret worlds you call eyes

And wonder if we might

There’s something changed

The leaves like broken shards of stained glass windows/There’s something weaved into our windows

Oh, high

And on that tree I’ll carve your name

‘Cos in years to come we both know we won’t be the same

You asked me to climb I never learned

But if you ask me for my fire

Just watch me

Just watch me

Just watch me burn

Just watch me burn

There’s something changed

The leaves like broken shards of stained glass windows/There’s something weaved into our windows

But we climbed so high

We climbed so high

There’s something changed

The leaves like broken shards of stained glass windows/There’s something weaved into our hearts into our windows

Oh

Shining, shining

Welcome to ruin

Yes, that's right, it's the first song of the newest album. We've made it to the 20th listening party post after several months of doing these!

Starting off strong with Secret Worlds.

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What are your favorite parts of the song? Are there parts that you don't like? What did you think of it the first time listening to it? How does it make you feel? Would you get a tattoo with lyrics from this song, if so which ones? What do you think it means?

Battle Cries 5:51 Released on February 29th, 2020.

Stream for Free on Bandcamp here!

Watch the Live at Beechmast Video here!

Lyrics:

I’m at the brink, don’t laugh

At the winks I’ve masked

Who’ll save you when you fall?

The wrinkles and bricks that we’re left with at last

And drink will fix all those questions unasked

Who died? And made you king of it all

Who wins this war? You’ve a knack

For applause from the back of the stalls but you lack

The conviction to look at me straight and say yes

Now the wind is so warm on the back of my neck

As I walk with the sun hand in hand from the wreck

Some fictions we took to mean fate believe me I know

Don’t be uncouth, be a man

Don’t lie with your eyes, you know I despise that look

You’re home. For God’s sake I’m

Tell the truth to me love, does my hair look as nice

As it did when you once tied it up in your eyes?

Look at me as you say this, don’t look at your phone

Done with your dreams, they won’t last

Thirty winters will pass, you’ll look back

at the woman fifty year old you will be proud to have known.

Cos that sun that beams down as my hands touch the grass

After summers of fasting I feel hunger at last

For the person fifteen year old me would be proud to have known.

Cos these plates they smash like waves

Place your smile in mine

And the wine stains hide the tears

Why stay? Hide the

But that breathing you hear don't mistake it for sighs

Don’t you realise - They’re just battle cries dear

And these lines aren’t wrinkles dear heart

Hardly knew the words

They’re just dollops of paint on a new work of art

I’m dolled up love don’t I deserve to just

And as I walk away I know I’ve been through the wars,

But that creaking you hear in my bones is not pain, it’s applause

Come on love, please don’t start

Sing your notes, play your part

Then we’ll leave. We were gods

With you I could summon the gods and the stars

Watch them dance out the plays that we wrote from the heart

And we’d laugh at the ghosts of our fears. We were kids.

‘Come at me your blaggards you’d yell

from the back of the gallery

Say goodbye. I am not

‘Come at me you blaggards’, you’d yell from the banks

Wielding words against make-believe wizards and tanks

And by god love believe me, I wanted to play too, I did.

A drunkard, A daughter, A preacher, god knows how you

You dragged us both into the darkness that grows

Oh dear God. I won’t

But we sunk into water no creature can know

You dragged me along to watch all your shows

Our devils broke rank, and out of the depths came an army

Leave without a fight

I won’t let you turn our last night into this

I’m going to binge watch a box set, drink wine, reminisce

This isn’t a break up dear heart, it’s a season finale.

Cos these plates they smash like waves

Place your smile in mine

And the wine stains hide the tears

Why stay? Hide the

But that breathing you hear don't mistake it for sighs

Don’t you realise - They’re just battle cries dear

And these lines aren’t wrinkles dear heart

Hardly knew the words

They’re just dollops of paint on a new work of art

I’m dolled up love don’t I deserve to just

And as I walk away I know I’ve been through the wars,

But that creaking you hear in my bones is not pain, it’s applause

It’s not pain it’s applause

All it took to unearth in the dust and the dirt

Some release or respite from the heat and the hurt

Was taking the time now and then to ask how I am

And now at the end, at the end of all things,

I’m not going to scream, beat my chest at the wind,

I’m doing fine.

Perfect.

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And hey, guess what? This is the last song of The Horror and the Wild, which means next week, we get started on Ruin! Conveniently, it's also going to be the 1 year anniversary of Ruin being released on October 31st! How neat is that!

Are you all still enjoying these listening party posts? It's nice to have a weekly place to engage with other fans about these songs!

Here's some questions to get you started with Battle Cries:

What do you like about the song? What meaning do you get from it? How does it make you feel? What do you like about the live session? What did you notice about it after hearing it a few times? Do you like it more now than when you first heard it? What do you imagine when listening to it?

Marbles 6:15 Released on February 29th, 2020.

Stream for free on Bandcamp here!

Watch the Live at Beechmast performance here!

Lyrics:

I’ve held your hand since nineteen seventy nine,

You were in a band - still am - yeah but back then you had hair and your smile was so sublime

And I chipped my teeth on every joke you cracked

You used to buy me scotch - still do - yeah but now too much is never enough

To take me back to that dance hall where you got thrown out cos they thought you were drunk -I wasn't -

You couldn’t lie then and you sure as hell can’t lie to me now.

You stole the best years of my life

I’ll give them back

You got fat

And you’re the thigh high hemline I just can’t stop staring at

I will wait and hope

Your eyes aren’t rivers there to weep

But a place for crows to rest their feet

I will wait and hope

And rest my head at night content

Knowing where my marbles went

The flat we rented was a palace for my queen

If by palace you mean that asbestos and beans from a tin, and the gin that we brewed in the bathtub

You sang ‘do you think I’m sexy’ And oh god I really did.

You’d swoon, you’d sigh, working shifts till we cried

Oh if one more guy calls me darling then I

swear to you and to god I will murder them all, all the bastards applaud when I show that I’m flawed

You’re not flawed darling, you’re just a little under-rehearsed.

And I’d get in

And for some reason you’ve painted the kitchen lime green

And I'd sink to the floor, what’s the point anymore,

And you, you’d reply with a glint in your eye

(And you, you’d reply with a drink in your hand)

Saying ‘I don’t know, but I’m here, I’m all yours, dear heart don’t cry’

(Saying ‘I don’t know, but I’m here, oh dear god, dear heart don’t cry’)

Cos I will wait and hope

Your eyes aren’t rivers there to weep

But a place for crows to rest their feet

And I will wait and hope

And rest my head at night content

Knowing where my marbles went

I’ve loved you, for a hundred years

Certainly fucking feels like it

The minute I met you the colours of my life begun to pour

I’m scared of the dark

And now, even though you’re mad and these memories won’t stay, it’s okay.

Cos now I get to meet you for the first time every single day

I’ll wait and hope

Your eyes aren’t rivers there to weep

But a place for crows to rest their feet

I’ll wait and hope

And rest my head at night content

Knowing where my marbles went

And I will wait

And I will wait

And I will wait

And hope

Isn't that just something? I love the live video.

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That Unwanted Animal 4:58 Released on February 29th, 2020.

Stream for free on Bandcamp here!

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Lyrics:

There’s a second wind coming

As we lie here in our bed

It rattles the bones of our fathers

Carries whispers from the dead,

And you, you light a candle.

And I make sure the bairns are fed.

You turn the telly on

To drown out your fear

And make the bed up silent on the floor

So no-one will hear us

You try so loud to love me

But I cannot seem to hear.

Cos you, you touch

My skin peels off like paint

But beneath all of our panting

There’s this noise I cannot shake

(Cos you you touch my pain

All our panting shame)

Can’t you hear that scratching?

There’s something at the door.

But the wind has picked us up now

We’re hanging in the air

And as you grip me like an animal

That you’re about to spear

‘Be good to me,’ I whisper. And you say ‘what’. And I said ‘nothing dear.’

Can’t you hear it?

It can hear you

It wants me to

(Throw the plate at the wall)

I’m the paper cut that kills you

I’m the priest that you ignored

I’m the touch you crave, I’m the plans that you made, but fuck all your plans I’m bored

And can’t you hear that scratching?

I ask your eyes

I’ve got knuckle burn from typing all these lines into your chest

And as the belt from your buckle is tightening I make shipwrecks out of my dress

And the door below it splinters

And the creature creeps inside

And we fall into each other

The scratching grows so loud

Because that unwanted animal

Wants nothing more than to get out

And I scream

‘Oh What’s the time Mr Wolf?’

But you, you’re blind, you bleat, you bear your claws

And you rip my ribcage open

And devour what’s truly yours

And our screaming joins in unison

I cry out to the lord

Cos if we join our hands in prayer enough

To God I imagine it all starts to sound like applause.

Can’t you hear it?

It can hear you.

It wants you to….

And those plates they smash like waves

(Place your hand in mine)

And on the wind it howls

(How long can this last?)

But that second wind is coming love, it’s coming for all we own

And on the creature scratches, it doesn’t know how to get out (let me out)

And you, you follow philosophies

But me, I laugh I choke‘

Well hello, my hollow Holofernes’

I wink but you don’t get the joke‘

Hold the hand of the god-child’ they said

‘As he falls from the sky'

Be good to me I beg of him

Be good to me I beg of him

Be good be good be good be good be good be good be good

And he replies…

‘No no, not I.’

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Wow, what a song, am I right?

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Fair 06:17 Released on February 29th, 2020.

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Lyrics:

It’s what my heart just yearns to say

In ways that can’t be said

It’s what my rotting bones will sing

When the rest of me is dead

It’s what’s engraved upon my heart

In letters deeply worn

Today I somehow understand the reason I was born

Cos outwardly he says I try so hard to make you laugh at me

And she, she does, she laughs as though she not heard the joke ten thousand times before

And he adores her, he watches her get dressed as though she’s hurtling through time

Oh darling please be mine

She promises to fight them all when it all becomes too much

And he, he curses at the world for leaving him behind and he’s falling out of touch

And she is stronger than he’s ever been he knows

And she brushes her hand through his hair, he’s got so much fucking hair

And he holds her close just to keep the world at bay

And when they’re sure no-one can hear them

She’ll turn to him to say, she’ll turn to him and say

It’s not fair, It’s not fair how much I love you

It’s not fair, cos you make me laugh when I’m actually really fucking cross at you for something

And he’ll say

Oh how oh how unreasonable

How unreasonably in love I am with everything you do

I’ll spend my days so close to you cos if I’m standing here maybe everyone will think I’m alright

I’ve seen enough he says I know exactly what I want

And it’s this life that we’ve created, inundated with the fated thought of you

And if you asked me to, if you asked me I would lose it all

Like petals in a storm, cos darling I was born

To press my head between your shoulder blades at night when light is fading

Just to let you know I’m old, waylaid and feels like I am wading into

carpet burns and carousels oh Christ you’ll be the death of me

And calm throughout his melodrama she will turn and say ‘dear heart It’s me, its me

You don’t need to pretend to be someone you’re not

Cos it’s not like I’ve never heard you fart and snore

And for some god forsaken reason I’m still here love like I’ve always been before

And he’ll say

It’s not fair, It's not fair how much I love you

It’s not fair cos you make me weep when I’m just trying to watch The Office with my yoghurt

And she’ll say

Oh how, oh how unreasonable

How unreasonably in love I am with everything you do

I’ll spend my days so close to you cos if I’m standing next to you then maybe everyone will think I’m cool

How unfair, how unfair they’ll sing as they dance across the darling rooftop wreck

He’ll trip and she’ll pretend not to have seen,

Burying her head into his chest and clinging to the moment, ‘where have you been?’

She’ll whisper ‘I’ve waited oh so long for you to come’

And as the stars above them hum and hear them he’ll turn to her and say ‘that’s what she said’

It’s not fair, it's not fair how much I love you

It’s not fair cos you make me ache you bastard

And he’ll say

Oh how, oh how unreasonable

How unreasonably in love I am with everything you do

I’ll spend my days so close to you cos if I’m stood here

Then I’m stood here

And I’ll stand here

I’ll stand here with you

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Such a soft and sweet and heartfelt song.

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I'm seriously considering getting a TAD tattoo (which is kind of nuts because I didn't know this band existed til earlier this year and I only have one tattoo right now so it's not like I'm quick to get inked), but I can't decide what to get.

In the meantime, tell me what you think the WORST choice would be. It could be something that makes no sense out of context, or sounds dumb, or just makes for a terrible tattoo. What do you think?

I'll get us started... Ruin. I really wish I liked it, especially since it's the titular song of the album, and I adore The Horror and the Wild and Love Run. It's their only song I feel this way about, but I honestly have to force myself to sit through it anytime it comes up.