Penny Dreadful

by Avian Learning Experiment

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Flashing spark, the darkened fields
A shooting star or lightning strike?
Cuckoos hatch in sleeping homes
Clamour in the rookery as coal fires burn

Sometimes it seems like it’s all mapped out
Feels like we’re trapped inside a doomsday cult
Trying to turn a tanker when the crew’s all drunk
Seems we’re written into a doomsday book

Awakening to a new regime
Not realising just what it means
Somnabulating through wrecked streets
How did we get from there to here?

Sometimes it seems like it’s all mapped out
Feels like we’re trapped inside a doomsday cult
Trying to turn a tanker when the crew’s all drunk
Seems we’re written into a doomsday book

Don’t you ever change
Why don’t things stay the same?
Time it ticks away
If only you had stayed

Four cyclists of the apocalypse
Portending doom again
So I turned up the patio heater
And ignored them

Sometimes it seems like it’s all mapped out
Feels like we’re trapped inside a doomsday cult
Trying to turn a tanker when the crew’s all drunk
Seems we’re written into a doomsday book

If we put the lights out, maybe they’ll think we’re out
We’re scared of our children
Even though we know we made them

Disappointing parents, disappointing children
If the vampire wakes before we kill him
Can we shoot a happy ending?

I was trying to catch your eye before the lights went up
Feels like we’re trapped inside a doomsday cult
Trying to turn a tanker when the crew’s all drunk
Feels like we’re written in a doomsday book

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released January 4, 2011
Iain Radcliffe

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