The Scars Featuring Tam Dean Burn - Late Home
Live at La Belle Angele, Edinburgh 15/12/23
Video credits - Stephen Brown, Eva Pokrywka, Shona Mackie & Calumn Mackay
Written by John Mackie
Alarm as always - break too soon.
Shiver to shift … first brutal dawn and sad starting motor.
Flicker, sick light - Mop slick corridors - change relays
Avoid the always bully and open that frozen gate – once more.
All resilience and stand forward - All alive and humming.
Prize reluctant torpor from screenworld now ….
Eject the cat, (sharp predator,) to serve its truth of stealth and death.
Climb the stairs.
Dream,
Ridiculous and brave.
That lost past - almost in reach … well, what “MIGHT” have been.
Ridiculous and brave.
Dream short, dream wide in contrast, and demand some slim vision - of it all.
Late home again.
Late home again.
Late home again.
A feral motion at the corner of his eye – it’s just a flicker
It’s just the same as it always was – Well, isn’t it?
Yeah there’s too much treacle under the bridge
There’s too much fairy dust on Disney
There’s to much too much too much to dream on
It’s ridiculous and brave.
And the years? The years erode it ….. it’s a brittle parchment
As faded as a father’s memory – it’s a sort of “state of grace.”
Late home again.
Late home again.
Late home again.