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Nocturnal Babe

from Or Else The Light by Louise Connell

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There was a stirring in her belly when you were a seed
You would kick and punch and wriggle with shapeless hands and feet
In the dark warmth of the night
And though, and though
Though you'd sleep all through the day
Sometimes she'd try to wake you
Her nocturnal babe
You grew and slept like a baby
Though she knew you reversed the truth in that saying
And when in the night she still felt you move,
Though you'd left her long ago,
She’d consider trying to wake you
But you were still too young and she was too old
Nothing reminds you of time like a clock in the night
As you hear it reaching day
She’s going to break, I mean
She’s going to wake you
And, so it goes, she needn't have told you at all
Her minutes crept up and the alarm bell tolled
You wedge your eyelids open with matchsticks,
With “no-hope” written on the stems
'Cause when you sleep she seems so real
And if memory hurts you deep
Then at least forgetting's one less thing you have to feel
In one life you danced within her
Cling to the hope that life could be fairer
Because nothing reminds you of time like a clock in the night
Nothing reminds you of time like a clock in the night
Nothing reminds you of time like a clock in the night
As you hear it reaching day
She’s going to break, I mean,
She’s going to wake you
She’s going to break, I mean,
She’s going to break you
Because nothing reminds you of time like a clock in the night
As you hear it reaching day

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from Or Else The Light, released July 24, 2015

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“A diverse, deep-vein double album which vaults her into contention as one of the most insightful and pertinent songsmiths, anywhere, to have emerged in recent years.”
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