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The Nobel Prize

from Love Island by Louis Brennan

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The Nobel Prize

I am a hateful and negative man
Bitter and riven with envy
Even when my cup is overflowing
I only see it as empty

I can’t enjoy in my friends’ success
Jealousy wraps her tendrils round my chest
I get drunk and behind your back
I’m telling everybody your material’s hack

So why can’t the world just recognise my genius?
Surely the highest honours await
Beckett and Yeats, turn in their graves
At their countryman’s fall from grace
Has the academy made a mistake?

When I win the Nobel Prize
Then I won’t have to apologise anymore
To all my pathetic friends
As I take my place
In the pantheon of great men

When I win the Nobel Prize
And the public finally recognise me
They will show their gratitude
Offering their firstborn daughters
As virginal brides
When I win the Nobel Prize

I am a selfish and petulant man
Given to bouts of irrational rage
Crocodile tears in the aftermath
Regretting my actions for days

I never worked for a thing in my life
But I had my hand on the till alright
The roof over my head and my loving wife
Somebody else always paid

So why is the world so slow to praise
The last true artistic Caucasian male alive
Heaney and Shaw return their awards
In a posthumous show of support
The salons of London and Berlin and Paris are distraught

When I win the Nobel prize
Maps will be redrawn, history revised
They will build statues in my likeness
Titanium steel and rippling biceps
When I win the Nobel prize
I’ll be on the television every single night
Singing my uplifting hits
To the newly liberated proletariat
When I win the Nobel Prize

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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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