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The Big Tomorrow

from Love Island by Louis Brennan

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The Big Tomorrow

I spend fourteen hours on my feet
I come home and feel the springs
In the mattress
Through the dirty sheets

But I don’t have the money
Or maybe it’s the inclination
Maybe I lack the self-respect
To affect the situation

And though everything we think we own here is only borrowed
Still we waste our time standing in line
Waiting for the big tomorrow
To come

Now I’ve got no one but myself to blame
For this hubris of identity
All this bitterness and shame

So I’ll be waiting tables
While your friends all reproduce
I’ll play the part of the nihilist
To another empty room

Just to feed the pyrrhic flames of constant sorrow
Looking for a brand-new way with the old cliché
While I’m waiting for the big tomorrow
To come

Seventeen
Try not to blow your load
Before that thing’s out of your jeans
You lied about your age to make the transaction less obscene
A lonely, older lover’s fantasy
It’s a hard act to follow
You’ll be cashing in those chips come the big tomorrow


I spend fourteen hours on my feet
I spent the best part of a decade
Learning how to smile convincingly

But to these economic migrants
I’m just a profligate display
A decadent reminder
Of how the west has lost it’s way

‘Cause every penny must be counted
And remitted
Building brick by brick for the big tomorrow
It’s only for the really committed
And that’s not me

Thirty-two
Who do you string the line for now?
And who do you tell the truth?
When the artifice overtakes
The Venn diagram breaks
All the pieces of your mistakes
Leave you hollow
And I’m still waiting here
I’m still waiting here
For the big tomorrow

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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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