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Things Start To Unwind

from Rave on Andy White (reissue) by Andy White

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THINGS START TO UNWIND

I got back to Belfast
checked the street and my plan
saw a band-aid covering the cancer
saw a mother carrying the can
saw eleven lords a leaping
over the house of lost time
saw twelve cabinet ministers
rehearsing a mime
and a hundred hungry children
rose up and cried
if God and the government ignore us
things start to unwind

I stopped off in a bar
where the in-crowd hang out
it was littered with
remembered embraces
there was a sign on the jukebox read
play in case of drought
the Mona Lisa shook her hands in the air
and she died
the fragile intellectual
looked at his girl and smiled
he sent his words to her like letters
she got them before he arrived
I gave them a card
which said on one side
things start to unwind

I called round your place
the moon was deciding whether to rise
you said you’ve got the wrong house
but I was thinking of what was inside
with your snakeskin affairs
and your precious antiques
I knew I’d been there before
the wolf was upstairs drinking
the sheep crawl past your door
an official-smelling envelope
blew in with the rain
and it tangled up my mind
the sirens scream I love you
as things started to unwind

The sirens scream I love you
our memories floundered on the rocks
we were one step ahead of the police
they were rounding up
everything that talked
we had to stick together
to search for the rain
you carried a novel a revolver and
an empty picture frame
there was a dry wind blowing
across the land
as you turned up your collar and sighed
as we drove into the night
things were starting to unwind

There were three generations reclining
on a three piece suite in the hall
and a three piece suit on a hoarding
and a picture of a parrot on the wall
like a hook line without a sinker
the men are lost for words
like a hookline without a singer
it all seems so absurd
’tis the plague of the time
when madmen lead the blind
faith
is undermined when
things start to unwind

There was unease in the air
and nothing on TV
the unease an explosive for tomorrow
cash in your security
like a memory
unlocked from a love letter
you once sent to me
let the light affix its beam
take away this falling dream
in this green and pleasant land
where the blind
lead the bland
drop me a letter
throw me a line
strike that light get on the road
when things start to unwind

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from Rave on Andy White (reissue), released October 15, 2018

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Belfast songwriter, has guitar wants to travel. Latest album - Good Luck I Hope You Make It

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