Cats and Dogs (a tender mess)

from by Theories of Everything

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Months in the making, this is our magnum opus epic complete with banjo, 80s Goth guitar, home-made choir and borrowed orchestra. Also, our closest-knit lyric collaboration to date: a mystical dissertation on life, love and the crazy art of communication.

lyrics

Cats and dogs are raining
There are tidal waves and earthquakes
But I can feed myself
And I can feed myself

While communicating
There are viruses and updates
Do I delete myself
Do I believe myself

Oh

Stories in the telling
There are lines I want to throw away
Did I repeat myself
Did I repeat myself

Love and sense is making
There are rhymes and time to make mistakes
So I can please myself
If I release myself

Oh

There was a date, an address
And a heightened fear of things that haven’t happened yet
It could be one of those days
It could be one of those nights

Nights, a tender mess
It was a moment to remember what I can’t forget
It could be one of those days
It could be one of those nights

Honeymoon is waning
There are werewolf and vampire tales
But I can scream for help
And I can see myself

Mum and dad were shaming
The scenarios are worst case
But I can free myself
I free myself

There was a date, an address
And a darkened fear of things that haven’t happened yet
It could be one of those days
It could be one of those nights

Nights, some tenderness
It was a moment to remember what I can’t forget
It could be one of those days
It could be one of those nights

credits

from Tender Mess, released 05 October 2011
Trumpet: Samuel Ashelford

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Bastard love child of Radiohead, Patti Smith, Sufjan Stevens and Lynsey de Paul

Theories of ... more Everything are:

Gregory Atkinson:
ex Ups & Downs
Big Heavy Stuff

Meera Atkinson:
Writer/poet
ex Citadel solo artist

Thomas “The Professor” Ashelford:
ex Ashtray Boy
Big Home Orchestra
Disband
The Yokos less

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