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The Narrative of Self Defeat

from Dead Capital by Louis Brennan

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    Bit Part Actor
    The Culture of Resistance
    London
    Get on Top
    Silence
    Selfish Lover
    The Narrative of Self Defeat
    I walked Away from a Glittering Career
    Home Sweet Home

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    The Culture of Resistance
    London
    Get on Top
    Silence
    Selfish Lover
    I Walked Away from a Glittering Career
    Home Sweet Home

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I’m still surprised
That the rest of my pride
Hasn’t crumbled
From keeping this sinking ship on the sea

When your vanity tames
Every lame
Attempt to be humble
You’re a sociopath with a Narcissus streak

It’s the oldest conceit
The narrative of self defeat
Washing the feet
Of every Mary you meet

Carrying that cross
A monument to what you’ve lost
C’mon Boss
Why don’t you give me a break?

You’re a well made fake

I can’t believe
I’m attending the needs
Of an infant
What about all those big books that I read?

A spoilt little boy
Who would rather destroy
All his playthings
Then film your wife while she’s giving him head

But still I repeat
The narrative of self defeat
I’ve been keeping you up late
When you should be asleep

Carrying that cross
A monument to what I’ve lost
C’mon boss
Why don’t you give me a break?

I’m a well made fake

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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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