A Disaffection from Husbands by Pale Fire

Last I heard you were living in
Your mother’s house
Just off Southbridge St
And you stay in bed all day
The neighbours are afraid

I am working for the working poor
Paid to greet their children at the door
Tongue tied and terrified
There but for the grace go I

The present tense obscures the truth
Conveys the urgency of youth
Their language shadows the land and sea
Repeat once more after me

Saying no used to be your own
The only thing that you could count on
Now days of skin and bone
Force you to hold your tongue

The present tense obscures the truth
Conveys the urgency of youth
Their language shadows the land and sea
Repeat once more after me

My god we’ll die here
My god we’ll die here
My god we’ll die here
My god we’ll die here

With their words for love and their words for hate
Hope and fear, despair and rage
Their language shadows the land and sea
Repeat once more after me

Round here we’re moving though the cold blue
We’re stricken by the moon
We fall asleep fat and happy
In houses built by guilt
Adulthood is filled with
Imposters and I’m one
One of the very best
We’ll be first up against the wall
Pulled from our kingsize beds

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