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Dreams of Losing Teeth

from Murky EP by Samuel Idwal

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    The Murky EP on a white disc, packaged in a handmade sleeve cut from cartridge paper, written and decorated by my hands before being tied up. Each sleeve bears a unique design and is numbered for posterity, making each EP individual.

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Tim Barrow (cello). Huge thanks are due to Tim Barrow for his ridiculously beautiful cello performance, and for learning the parts in all of two minutes, like the pro he is. The Ahhhhs in the song mimic the sound of a man with no teeth singing.

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When I opened up your letter
And I read the contents therewith
I threw it down and trembled
I would not understand it
Its scrawlings were not comprehended
I burnt the paper and the seal
And scattered the ashes

I had a dream that evening
As I lay in a cold bed
Of myself in a forest
Between dark, withered trees
and dead logs the second me stands
He turns round and he's holding his teeth in his hands

I dreamed the same the next night
Of my double trapped deep in the woods
Trudging a winding track
Its twilight beneath the branches
The sunlight got stolen and filthy
There's nothing there to guide you out or back to safety

Still he clutches each tooth tight
Coloured a dirty, grimy off-white,
Jagged and sharp as a knife,
Flecked with red at the roots and the crown
Stripped of his power to clamp down
On anything that would strike him, this man has lost his bite

I want to be up to my neck in cold water
Or leaping across an expanse
With no clue as to whether I'll make it
Like the poor fools who wandered before him
Their bones never found or awakened
Its a black cloud and I can't shake it

I dreamed a new dream last night
You found me in the dark woods
And fashioned me new teeth
Incisors smelted from iron
Four canines honed to a point
Molars of carved ivory plated with silver

To insert them caused me great pain
But my life I now could sustain
You led me out and we fled far away
and we never came back to the forest

credits

from Murky EP, released June 13, 2012
Tim Barrow (cello awesomeness)

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Samuel Idwal Leicester, UK

London based singer-songwriter with new EP 'Brightbark' out now. Contact: samuelidwal@gmail.com

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