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(Beep! Beep! Beep!
Snooze
Beep! Beep! Beep!)

Waking from uneasy dreams
Fall through a fracture in crazy-pave dreams
(Ripped at the seams)
Flailing to stop the alarm
Hand crashes down and it shatters apart
(That's just the start)
Should've just stayed asleep! It's just cogs and circuits now!
Like an ungrateful-king! Kill-the-messenger!

I think I am not on form
This is not my finest hour

Cracks spreading out like a frozen lake
So very dangerous, being awake
Not so much "if it breaks" more like "when"
Over and over and over again
He was condemned to be from the start
A victim of entropy, falling apart
Disaster, calamity, casualty
Apathy, atrophy, entropy

The floor buckles under my weight
And it folds like a tablecloth pulled through a drain
(Over again)
And people will follow me down
Like grains in an hourglass they fall through the ground
(Like it was sand)

Breaking down! Taking all with him!
Crash and burn! Smash and turn to dust!

His shadow, disorder and chaos and hurt
He's wearing catastrophe like a shirt
Leaving destruction wherever he goes
Like Buster Keaton's collapsing house
He was condemned to be, from the start
A victim of entropy falling apart
Like today's warranty has expired!
Du Musst Amboss oder Hammer sein

Falling apart

I think I am not on form
This is not my finest hour

Well, time will heal
But time will hurt as well
And when I
Go to help, it all will
Go to Hell and back again

I can't think straight (go back to bed!)
Oh my head aches (not just your head!)
Crashing! Collapsing! (It never ends)
I'll wreck my world (and destroy your friends)

I'm a mass of nerves
Throwing the day awry, and I (and feel that I)
Make it worse, and
I am a fool to try to apologise

I don't mean to (yet all the same)
I can't help it (who should we blame?)
Don't come near me (disaster king)
I'm falling apart (like everything...)

Everything turning to ash in his tread
Wishing that I had just stayed in bed
Decay as his touch leaves an acid stain
Over and over and over again
Unravelling hurricane centred on me
Catastrophe, atropy, entropy
He was condemned to be from the start
A victim of entropy, falling apart
Disaster, calamity, casualty
Apathy, atrophy, entropy
Even the ground is no longer my friend
Refusing to swallow me up in the end

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from If Every Day Were Like This One, released May 15, 2020

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John Callaghan is an unusual songwriter / performer of thoughtful and spiky electronica from Birmingham (UK).
More of his songs can be found at bleep.com/artist/153 (the stuff on Warp Records, basically, including "I'm Not Comfortable Inside My Mind").
He is 173cm tall, weights 73kg and has a blood pressure of 110/60Hg. ... more

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