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Love Island

from Love Island by Louis Brennan

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Love Island

Well you spent last night on the fold out bed
With thoughts of leaving in your head
You need some more protection
From these outbursts of aggression

And I wake up to an empty room
And the weight of a morning come too soon
Spend Tuesday afternoon
Staring at the television

And nothing ever happens here
The valleys in between the tears
Are flooded with inertia
‘til the next time that I hurt you
‘So what’s the point?’ you say
If I’m not trying anymore

You say something’s got to give
No, this shit can’t last
Surely the future should be better than the past
Notwithstanding what evidence suggests
For love in the time of datasets
But life is rich with contradictions
And here I am of my own volition
Watching the tears stream down your face
Was it something lost
That you can’t replace?

But innocence cannot endure
The body will eventually reject the cure
As long as we’re complacent
They’ll be lining up replacements
So what’s the point
If we’re not trying anymore

There is no cash prize
No way for the public to decide
On love island
We’ll be consumed by the rising tide

I said wait a minute baby
Now hold your horses
Good people like us don’t get divorces
Just keep your feelings to yourself and your actions discreet
Don’t let the public be complicit in this act of deceit
Because the paperwork’s piling up
There’s numbers to crunch
They say we ought to start meeting other couples for brunch
And I can spend a year in another man’s skin
Living on diazepam and television

But repetition breeds contempt
When your lover is just somebody who helps with the rent
And nothing is for certain
But the fact that we’re both hurting
So what’s the point?
If we’re not trying anymore

There is no cash prize
No way for the public to decide
On love island
We’ll be consumed by the rising tide

There is no hotline
No recorded message on the end of the phone
On love island
It’s just you and I alone

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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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