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Written during a very low point (just before the recording of "Mother" when the band's fortunes were soon to improve). The song is about not being able to predict when things might all go horribly wrong.

lyrics

I never woke up this morning,
My tether is at the end of elsewhere.
There's a big black dog yawning
And it's sitting in my favorite chair.
I saw my prospects portrayed before me
As a sad and solitary house,
With icicles hanging from its doorway
Like teeth in a great grey mouth.

I couldn't bury you
Deep enough.

A strange new brand of confection
Is rotting all Wisdom's teeth.
A dying man addresses his reflection
And says "Better you than me."
But a breath as persistent as gravity
And corrosive as a wasted second
Unfurled from the lap of some deity
Where that abominable animal beckoned.

I couldn't bury you
Deep enough.

I'd stolen a dead man's wrist watch
And was living by his time not mine,
I adapted my past to suit a flimsy ideal
And laid a false floor on that fault-line.
I know all things cast a shadow
Regardless of sort or size
But the part of me I once left fallow
Now yields a tree that's obscuring the sky.

I couldn't bury you
Deep enough.

I no longer believe in medicine
And I'm struggling with that fourth wall
Since that animal appeared in my bedroom
Howling its territorial call.
It said there's no flame it couldn't douse
As it snuffed out the light over my thoughts,
It opened me up like a doll's house
And I wept until I was hoarse.

There are some things you just can't hide from
There are some things you just can't push down
Deep enough.

credits

from Memoir Noir, released March 12, 2012
Louis Barabbas (writer) - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Fran Lydiatt - Accordion, Piano, Vocals
Matthew Cleghorn - Lead Guitars
Tom Cleghorn - Drums, Vocals
Biff Roxby - Bass Trombone, Tenor Trombone, Vocals
Dan Watkins - Bass Guitar

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Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six Manchester

Between 2006-2016 the Bedlams relentlessly peddled their peculiar brand of Dirt-Swing, capturing the imaginations of every species of listenership, winning support from the likes of Supergrass, The Mighty Boosh, Har Mar Superstar, UB40, Mark Steel, The Hell’s Angels and BBC Radio, inspiring stage invasions, dancing in the aisles and a confused mixture of exhaustion and bonhomie wherever they went ... more

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