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The Beasts

from The Beasts by By Toutatis

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Written by Daniel Cochran

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Gorse-tangled in our ancestral pile
Oh brother and I
Two mollusks in one shell
No evening callers for six long years
No offspring or soft wives
Just our shared hours

Oh brother we set off to hunt
Our horses feagued to make them spry
Although for want we did the task with our own hands
The locals spread word of our ride
Then bolted doors and shooed the docile cows inside
And you always the keener eye
Saw branches stir and shot your load towards the shade
A fine report it fell in one
We closed to get the fox that tore our chickens’ throats

So throw the carcass in the bag
Our prayers were never clean
A hopeless heart's a heavy anchor
Over the pathless seas
And we will never claim your love
And so it’s off to hunt once more

So newly feagued and pissed as hell
We rode bravely across the fell
Like men we were…like greater men we were before
A scent and a nose in the air
A quickening of hoof and of hand
The next was mine…and just like you I hit the mark
The mastiff ran forward to find
An otter with dark and damp pelt
A kill no good but for the hungry dogs sat by

So throw the carcass in the bag
Our prayers were never clean
A hopeless heart's a heavy anchor
Over the pathless seas
And we will never claim your love
And so it’s off to hunt once more

“Fuck this” you said and cocked your rifle clumsily
Before I could find voice you shot the mastiff up its arse
It fell at once
And laughing beyond care we dragged the sorry trio home
Tied up with sodden rags
Draped over braying horse

And when we both were home
Surrounded by our prey
With needles, thread and butcher knives
…They called us the beasts of Acklam
Well our heraldry is rusty
But we’ll give them a sigil worth the name.

I read a book when I was young
About a mammal with a beak
They said it had been made by men
And anything can be done by men
And everything will be done by men
There’s nothing won’t be done by men
So call the papers in and
Oh brother, we’ll hit the wine again.

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from The Beasts, released August 31, 2015
Recorded by Stephen Norman at Green Dragon Studios

Mastered by James Mottershead

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