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My Favourite Disguise

from Love Island by Louis Brennan

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My Favourite Disguise

Is this the real thing?
Is any of this real?
Does anyone know what they’re talking about?
Can you trust the way you feel?
Critical analysis
Emotional paralysis
It’s a joke
With no punchline at the end

Is this the real thing?
The digital abyss
If a tree falls in the forest now
Does anybody give a shit?
Insidious technology
Consumer ideology
Wags the dog around here these days

But it’s not your future
And I don’t have plans
It’s really no skin off my back
Who’s out there
Kissing babies
Greasing palms

Inflatable rafts
In the straits of Gibraltar
It’s someone else’s problem
It’s someone else’s daughter
I act like I care
‘cause I know that I ought to
But really I’m empty inside

The first in the latest series of lies
Brought to you by my favourite disguise

Is this the real thing?
Or somewhere in between?
Am I sat getting drunk on a park bench?
Or in some recurring dream?
Self-destructive tendencies
Slip into dependencies
Depression and anxiety
Make your friends into enemies

Is this the real thing?
Or is it all for show?
Some local lads in loincloths
Who didn’t want to draw the dole
Performative morality
Ethical brutality
We’re sorry we missed your call

But it’s not your problem
And I’ve got my own
You can lead a horse to water man
But you’ll still die alone

Questions of decency
Political expediency
National identity
Auto-idolatry
The songs on the radio all sound the same to me
Maybe I’m empty inside?

A hollow construction of ego and pride
When I’m wearing my favourite disguise
Can you see through my saccharine smile?
When I’m wearing my favourite disguise

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from Love Island, released October 28, 2022

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Louis Brennan London, UK

London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. His folk however aren’t the field hands and travelling minstrels of yore but the repressed middle managers and ennui-ridden urbanites of late-stage capitalism. They populate tales of bad sex, drunk commutes and interpersonal claustrophobia delivered in Brennan’s cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly intimate ... more

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