that unwanted animal
(this song has me in a chokehold, thanks artie)
{CATTY PORTER}
there's a second wind coming
as we lie here in our bed
{MISSY CARTER}
it rattles the bones of our fathers
carries whispers from the dead
and you?
you light a candle
{MASHA POPOVA}
I make sure the bairns are fed
you turn the telly on to drown out your fear
{ELLIE MAXWELL}
you make the bed up silent on the floor
so no one will hear us
{LAURA EASTON}
you try so loud to love me
I cannot seem to hear
{LUCIE DAVID}
cause you, you touch my skin peels off like paint
but beneath all of our panting there's this noise I cannot shake
{RACHEL STARK}
oh, can't you hear the scratching?
there's something at the door
{LAURA EASTON}
but the wind has picked us up now
{LUCIE DAVID}
we're hanging in the air
and as you grip me like an animal
that you're about to spear
"be good to me" I whisper
and you say
{LAURA EASTON}
"what?"
{LUCIE DAVID}
and I say
"nothing dear"
{RACHEL STARK}
can't you hear it?
it can hear you
it wants me to
throw the plate at the wall
{ELLIE MAXWELL}
I'm the paper cut that kills you
and the priest that you ignored
{TAMARA LINCOLN}
I'm the touch you crave and the plans that you made
but fuck all your plans, I'm bored
{MISSY CARTER}
can't you hear that scratching?
I ask your eyes
{MASHA POPOVA}
I've got a knuckle burn from typing all these lines into your chest
and as the belt from your buckle is tightening
I make ship wrecks out of my dress
{CATTY PORTER}
and the door below it splinters
as the creature creeps inside
{LORELEI & FRANKIE}
and we fall into each other
{ALL}
the scratching grows so loud
because that unwanted animal wants nothing more than to get out
{GEORGIE ROGERS}
and I scream
"what's the time, mister wolf?"
but you, your blind, you bleat, you bear your claws
{CATTY PORTER}
and you rip my ribcage open
and devour what's truly yours
and our screaming joins in unison
{SUSIE MAXWELL}
I cry out to the lord
cause if we join our hands in prayer enough to god
I imagine it all starts to sound like applause
{MISSY CARTER}
can't you hear it?
it can hear you
{RACHEL STARK}
it wants me to
{SUSIE MAXWELL}
and these plates, they smash like waves
and on the wind it howls
{LORELEI QUINZEL}
cause that second wind is coming, love
it's coming for all we own
{FRANKIE QUINZEL}
and on the creature scratches
it doesn't know how to get out
{ELLIE MAXWELL}
and you, you follow philosophies
oh, me, I laugh, I choke
hello, my hollow Holofernes
I wink but you don't get the joke
{LUCIE DAVID}
"hold the hand of the godchild" they said
as he falls from the sky
{FRANKIE QUINZEL}
"be good to me," I beg of him
{LORELEI QUINZEL}
"be good to me," I beg of him
{SUSIE MAXWELL}
be good
{ELLIE MAXWELL}
be good
{WINNIE WILLOWS}
be good
{LAURA EASTON}
be good
{LUCIE DAVID}
be good
{MASHA POPOVA}
be good
{CATTY PORTER}
be good
{ALL}
and he replies
"no, no, not I"
