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The Execution Bell

from Songs from the Orange Room by Platitude Queen

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(The ringing of the execution bell.)

You kiss my nose. I kiss you on the chin.
This is how all our arguments begin.

In silence, in total silence and with,
More than the slightest sense of listlessness.
Not forgetting myself.

Accumulated over centuries of waste.
No happy endings and no pleasant aftertaste.

To know you’re here and living well.
A newfound sense of self-worth and the ringing of,
The execution bell.

And if there was another way to be this ungrateful,
I’d write it in my own blood upon your door,
And then sever my tongue so that I could say no more.

The story of a life, a life you lived.
You’re not always right because nobody is.

An ox’s heart, with angel wings.
A broken glass and sixteen thousand other things.
For each a hymn.

A sacred failure, we will not apologise,
For interrupting everybody else’s lies,

With simple songs and lots of wine.
One hand to raise your glass and one eye on the time.
I’m doing fine.

And if there was another way to be this ungrateful,
I’d write it in your own blood upon my door,
And then sell my belongings and put myself under the floor.

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from Songs from the Orange Room, released November 26, 2021

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Platitude Queen Stockton On Tees, UK

Platitude Queen is a folk project by Teesside based musician and certified daft apeth J. S. Gordon (formerly based in Leeds).

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