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Dorothea's Boat

by David Lawrie

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1.
I see her when I swim, Usually late at night . Her eyes; her teeth. Her crooked little smile. Her face: Fluorescent with light. Without trying I catch her eye, But she is hard to get. It's always about The woman I haven't even met. My throat is tight and shining red With the extravagance of this imagination. She is the ocean, all around. I am Megalodon, lost and found.
2.
Dorothea 04:30
In the hazy grey light, when the lines are good and blurry; on the affluent peninsula baboons are robbing purses filled with baby sharks are hiding in the tide is pulling back along the broken stones are breaking less than the moon is keeping secrets. Terrified by what they'll find If the moon might spill the beans when all the planets have been realigned and the earth becomes a circus; make-up artists are making up, all the animals are waking up, behind the scenes the lion tamers are being tamed by tigers. Locks are good, but woe betide, by pushing through the key inside, and peeking through the little gap a secret is dispelled. You see, the circus folk are working hard, with make up running down their faces; busy canning oxygen for the astronauts and divers. Something's getting closer, I can feel it. Something's coming nearer, but I can't see it. Something's getting faster, I'm running, and running, and running, and giving all of my nerve away. Underwater, under all the silly circus people, next to little monsters on the beach: A frothy, curtained bay. Inside: The bigger sharks are angry at the apes are getting braver in the water is inviting them to take a quick look under. Now inside the pantomime, innamorate dolphins hide above, below, behind their masks, enlightened by the moon. In the coral forest, the brighella clown fish start to tell their arlecchino sisters' plans for taking back the ocean. Soon the moon is getting tired, and bored with all the actresses are acting up because they know it's getting past their bedtime so, the orca with her panda eyes, and orders from the moon, arrives to tell them all to get to sleep; or on the three count, leave. Doing what we've all been told, and scattering for fear of all the consequences we've in store for swimming off the shore. And now: The surface is approaching, near, and Dorothea's waiting there. Though, on her boat, she looks away, she smiles, and sails me far away.
3.
Flourine 03:01
4.
Swap the whale and dolphin cries For ambulances; Ambulance with ample time To get to where we are... ...where all the sick are far away, And we can't hear them; We can't hear their hypochondriacal, snarling Callow callouts in the night: Crooked ways to get their way, To waste her time, And waste my time... ...in total imbecilic fashion, With no regard for love, nor passion, Nor anything that's here where we Care. But the moon's still there, So we don't mind at all, and all the animals have gone to get their blood tests for a while, so they'll be in the wild Soon.
5.
Storm Petrel 04:37
I know, I know, I know I appear to be taking Everything so slow, and Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling behind. So you go, you go, You go Where it's bigger, And there's neon: Brighter than the moon, and... ...the sounds are all speeding up, to catch the light. And I'll stay here, To keep me near. But I adore the way You pull me over there. And that's before I've even Stopped to catch a breath of air... ...and all the surreptitious petrel storms Have plotted with the killer whales To build a tidal wave As big as it can grow; And bring it crashing down To stop the ebb and flow Of all the automation; Traffic Lights, Tremendously, And turn the day to night. I know, I know, I know, I know. If I go, I go, I go, I go, Then you'll take it In your place To come Back Here. (come back here) It won't be in a year, But give it two or three. When you'll be ready, So I'll take you back with me To where the autumn comes A little soon, But that's OK Because I've got the moon... ...to tell me everything I'll ever need to hear About the universe, And how to keep you near. The universe, And how to keep you near.
6.
Bromine 02:12
7.
Over, Under 04:49
It's too far; Too hard; Too damn hard. Too late; Too slow, Close my eyes. Over, Under; All around: Creatures, teachers - lost and found. So long, Farewell to all these earthly people: my pillars and my peers. They've served their purpose but now it's time for me to get the hell away. Over, under, any way I can get to where I've got to go with gravity, or air, or no, or somewhere else entirely, and now. I'm levitating, and elevating, It's escalating quickly so I steal some feathers to fashion wings and fly. Every time I pass her by I show her things, I take the time to win her over, and maybe make her mine. Because she's got the oxygen, and apparatus, too. And everything so I won't need to wonder why I go there; why I try... ...so hard, So hard. So damn hard, when I'm too late; Too slow; Far behind. Over, under; All around. Searching for what's lost and found.
8.
Species 05:11
Take your eyes, and mine, And all the colours they've seen between them. And we could make A landscape. We'd use the best of both; The best of everything we know, And fill the gaps between With your complexion: my esteem for us. Take the time we've got; The time to come, and throw it in the air. See the night time come to life Nocturnal: You and I. See the night time come to life, The satellites will watch in spite Of everything we do to cover up, But not to care, because The astronauts don't know to use The instruments, With which, they're meant to spy... ...on us, and all the species We've chosen to make. Chosen for the attributes We can recreate. Chosen for the intellect And passions they can show. Made to be as perfect As we can fabricate. Made to be as perfect As we can fabricate. Take your eyes, and mine, And all the colours they've seen between them. And we could make A landscape. A landscape. For us.
9.
I want to be of the sea and of the air, and delicately dare. But I'm irritated by the ways I get in trouble, and cannot fly or cannot dive. In my sleep I fight winning battles; Aerial and submarine. I don't run away (run away). Walking on water, Carrying air. Walking on water. But as I shove to the ground, this hopeless love Below and up above Are irritatingly the things I'll never be Never breathe And never touch. In my sleep I fight winning battles; Aerial and submarine. I don't run away (run away). Walking on water, Carrying air. Walking on water.
10.
Sometime after all the afterwards and somewhere else... ...I am taking back a step or three If you'll come, too. Bring your camera with for evidence Because this won't last much longer than the Time it takes for your eyes to adjust to the light; to the night; to the frightful things you conjure up inside your head, inside your head, inside your... Twisting round to take the serpent by the fangs, and Bring her down to slither with the humans on the ground. When the time is almost bigger than, bigger than, bigger than you can understand, Use the weapon you are Holding in your hand. Feel the nickel in your palm; Raise thw palm with all your arm; Pull the trigger nice and tight Then hope that this is all inside your head, inside your head, inside your... Peel back your eyelids. Do it slowly. Do it with the surest fear that Everything you did before Was real enough, you can't be sure that every word you thought you said might not have stayed inside your head. Everything you did before Was real enough, But don't regret That the words you could have said Might not have stayed inside your...
11.
Chlorine 03:02
12.
Mid-night, mid-flight I stop And I pull over. Mid-night, mid flight I stop; Red-light cripples, Alzheimer's and drivers. Mid-night I stop; Not a soul, nor the devil to keep me still. The sane man - he passes me by And the red light won't even care, or remember. Mid-night, mid-flight I stop And it's getting me down. Mid-night, mid-flight I stop And I can't come around. The in-flight film is atrocious - It's out of sync, it st-tutters and bugs me. The outside temperature's falling And everything looks much better without the frost. Everything looks much better without the frost, And everything gets much better when I Look at the clock, look at the clock, look at the clock, Look at the clock, look at the date. Pick up the pace, pick up the pace, pick up the pace, Pick up the pace, pick up the time. Mirror behind, mirror behind, mirror behind, Mirror behind, mirror your face Mirror the time, mirror the time, mirror the time, Mirror the time, mirror the place. Everything looks much better without the frost. Everything tastes much sweeter without the cost. Maybe I'm not making much sense at all, Either way I won't make it stop. Mid-night, mid-flight I stop Paying attention to signals and warnings. In my head I'm unbreakable If I'm already broken in pieces. Acceleration and hand break turns And long term aviation, And stationary traffic, I'm passing by With imaginary turrets and land-mines. Middle of the night and it's terrible That no-one's around to witness the things That I couldn't do in the daylight When the red light might gun me down. But the star-light is silent; The moon keeps smiling down and he flicks me a wink, And the red light is feeling less angry Because I made a deal with her brother. And she shouldn't really care because it's quiet, anyway. And I never really cared because I know it's best to Look at the clock, look at the clock, look at the clock, Look at the clock, look at the date. Pick up the pace, pick up the pace, pick up the pace, Pick up the pace, pick up the time. Mirror behind, mirror behind, mirror behind, Mirror behind, mirror your face Mirror the time, mirror the time, mirror the time, Mirror the time, mirror the place. Everything looks much better without the frost. Everything tastes much sweeter without the cost. Maybe I'm not making much sense at all, Either way I won't make it stop.

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released March 9, 2015

Produced by David Lawrie.

Additional spanish guitar on "Traffic Lights at Night [Yumiko]" by J. W. Greenwood.

Mastered by Andy Wilson

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