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Silence

from Dead Capital by Louis Brennan

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    London
    Get on Top
    Silence
    Selfish Lover
    The Narrative of Self Defeat
    I walked Away from a Glittering Career
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    Get on Top
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    Selfish Lover
    I Walked Away from a Glittering Career
    Home Sweet Home

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lyrics

You are socially liberal, fiscally conservative
You say live and let live
Or let die
Why should I
Pay for the lifestyles
Of those that never tried?
We all make choices
Under the weight of compromise
And I made mine

But you are confident enough about your presence in the world
To extend your neuroses
To your little boy and girl
Now she’s standing in the mirror
At eleven years old
And sees her body as an object
That society will mould

But if we’re all to be commodities
Then we might as well know
Our place in the market
Before anxiety takes hold

I can’t sleep at night
Oh unless I drink just the right
Amount of beers
On the night bus home
From my dead end job
To my sub-let home

And there’s no future here
Amidst the waves of mediocrity
The uniform appearance
Of alternative consumer choice
When I open my mouth
There is only one voice

And I am silent
I am silent

Now I’m standing in the ashes
Of the person that I was
And in a moment of sobriety
See the severity of the loss
While you’re butchering semantics
Trynna tell me black is white
I just bite down on my calloused tongue and remain satisfied
With the moments of self-loathing
When I begin to fantasize
About random acts of violence
And all the people I despise

Now you’re hooked on cheap pornography
Desensitized to sex
You’ve got a useless liberal arts degree
And thirty grand of debt
But your open letter’s going viral
You’ve got twenty thousand likes
And you think you’re a fucking environmentalist
Just because you ride a bike
But you show no solidarity
When the transport unions strike
You say the age of collective bargaining
Was in nineteen-eighty-five

I can’t sleep at night
Oh unless I drink just the right
Amount of beers
On the night bus home
From my dead end job
To my sub-let home

And there’s no future here
Amidst the waves of mediocrity
The uniform appearance
Of alternative consumer choice
When I open my mouth
There is only one voice

And I am silent
I am silent

I can’t sleep at night
Oh unless I drink just the right amount of beers
Right now it’s up to five
And it’s beginning to leave traces
On my body and mind

But there’s no future here
In the century of the self
I am consumed by the fear
I am haunted by the ancient doubt
When I open my mouth
Nothing comes out

I am silent
I am silent

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from Dead Capital, released February 23, 2018

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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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