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Naked And Afraid

from Love Island by Louis Brennan

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Naked and Afraid

We searched for words amidst the rubble
With which we could describe our new landscape
All barren and saline

Trying to reconnect lapsed synapses
In a universal monoglot
We sought a brand new patronymic
With which we could define

Those courageous pioneers
On the shifting frontier
Where the vision and the market coalesces

Oh the old tongue was dead
An anachronism in the heads
Of it’s last native speakers
As they approached obsolescence

I lay down where once I had stood
I bit down on my lip
Just so I could taste the blood
Of arteries connected to the heart
A cipher in the flesh
A flashlight in the dark

Hold on to something

All my friends were there
All carefully arranged
Through cellular connections
The value of our intersections

Rank and file to top brass
The snipers in the long grass
The ballast of tradition
The bias of our ammunition

Naked and Afraid
We called out to be saved
As a subset of a subset
With overlapping special interests

Oh the old god was gone
But the liturgy it lingered on
The host and holy water
The pulpit and the altar

I abstained where once I partook
I closed my eyes
I could not bear to look
Still every leaf connected to the root
The surety of nature
The frailty of truth

Hold on to something

Hold on to something

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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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