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The Creaking Colony

from False Positives by Dan Wilson

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Words - Dan Wilson
Music - Sannergata (Andreas Monk & Matti Hansen)

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THE CREAKING COLONY


The gulls are crying
The heat electrifying
Steaming upwards from the sewers
Through the traffic
Circling crows
Like static
Bikes toot horns
From every angle torn
Rip through the blazing sun
With fortified naval guns
You gaze out to sea
Drink in the shade of
The gypsy’s tree
In this quaint old
Creaking colony
Tonight the circus
Comes to town
The fasting broken
In moonlight’s crown
Now weary souls
In shadows stalk
An orchestra of birds squawk
Victorious ants return from battle
The baby reaches
For her rattle
Rats slide back below
You sit and watch
The grass grow
They’re dressing the stage
And testing the lights
You feel a thousand
Insect bites
Ignite the aching
Still unsettled scores
The weight that pulls
Us from down below
Tricks you into
Letting go
But binds us tightly
To the stone
A home made prison
Of your own undoing
The body prepared for viewing
When even here on foreign soil
The same old scabs and boils
We pick
Tied to our shared history
Creaking with the colony.

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from False Positives, released January 29, 2021
Music - Sannergata (Andreas Mork & Matti Hansen)
Roland Synths/ drum machines/DDA mixer

Words - Dan Wilson

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Dan Wilson Liverpool, UK

Dan Wilson is a singer songwriter. Vocalist and guitarist with Dan Wilson & The Counterfactuals and The Cubical.He is also a vocalist with Basque collective Los Separatistas, and a writer of poetry and short stories.

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