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My Literary Kingdom

from SINATRA by Seldom Party

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Based loosely on the noisy neighbours adjacent to my old bedroom in South London, this is an over-dramatised account of the night when in between the usual heated arguing and emotional swearing were the lines 'PUT DOWN THE KNIFE, JUST PUT DOWN THE KNIFE'.

lyrics

If you listen
you can hear the lover wake
and wake he does,
you can hear the woman cuss -
Into the night and on for a year,
undone by a sympathetic ear,
out of the veil, and the ordinary.

It's a cautionary tale from my Literary Kingdom -
one that I could do without.
It's a cautionary tale -
one that I forgot to mention,
one that rung true as I tell.

Go!
Step back from yourself
put down the knife, the sole disguise that I don't want to mess with.
Go!
Listen to yourself,
these walls are thinner than you first surmised and I want to wake up with my head held high -
that's if we wake at all!

If you listen
you can hear the weapon drawn
make out the lover scorn
glass against the wall... in time
to witness
a crime
committed
what if
she heard me
in haste,
obsurbly
My heart is racing
the time she's facing
these lines
we're drawing
are mighty blurry.

This is a message to myself,
This is a lesson I would rather have gone without.
This is the leverage I wouldn't have lived without.
This is the lesson that I'd rather have gone without.

It's a cautionary tale from my Literary Kingdom -
one that I was forced to tell.
It's a cautionary tale -
one that I forgot to mention,
I want you to live without.
(break a wing don't fly)
It's a cautionary tale from my literary Kingdom -
one that I was forced to tell.
(break a wing don't fly)
It's a cautionary tale from my literary Kingdom -
from my throne it could end well!
(break a wing don't fly)

© 2011 Seldom Party

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from SINATRA, released May 13, 2011
Song: Will Kendrew

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Seldom Party The Patch, Australia

After 7 years in London, another in Hong Kong growing a beard and 4
more recording desert reggae in Central Australia, Seldom
Party now lives, writes and records post-folk in Victoria.
Seldom Party saw out 2011 taking his live show, complete with knives and
balloons, to an eclectic mix of venues throughout Australia. See for yourself at www.seldomparty.com ... more

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