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The Skill Of Coagulation

from Save Your Breath by Rowan Lewis

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The first track I properly recorded at university.

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I’m in credit for a lot of talking
It’s all gonna come out someday
I’m losing sleep over sleeplessness
I’m speechless over everything I say

The cat that’s got my tongue is a sabretooth
And I feel sick.

Not a medicine in the pharmacy
There’s not a remedy to reveal
Not a single scrap of anatomical knowledge
That could ever help me heal

Mutely seeking out someone to answer for
The marks at fourteen.
Oh, flooded fourteen.

‘Cos there’s a whole lot of damage and casualties unaccounted for
There’s a clog from the skill of coagulation you taught her
There’s violent turbulence stagnating beneath the surface
And you’ve disturbed the water

Promise myself I won’t pour my heart out
Drain it dry within a fortnight, yeah.
Trembling worry of oversharing
Speaking out of turn, running out of air

Waiting for the second hand to hit 12 again.

‘Cos there’s a whole lot of damage and casualties unaccounted for
There’s a clog from the skill of coagulation you taught her
There’s violent turbulence stagnating beneath the surface
And you’ve disturbed the water

There’s blood thickening in the veins of every absconder
And speech turning solid between every son and daughter
Non-categorised are left wordless to wonder
Who disturbed the water

Time heals wounds, but not terminal illness
I feel worse every single day
And if someone asked “well, what’s the problem?”
I wouldn’t have a single thing to say.

Hoping the second hand’s gonna hit 12 again

‘Cos there’s a whole lot of damage and casualties unaccounted for
There’s a clog from the skill of coagulation you taught her
There’s violent turbulence stagnating beneath the surface
And you’ve disturbed the water

There’s blood thickening in the veins of every absconder
And speech turning solid between every son and daughter
Non-categorised are left wordless to wonder
Who disturbed the water

You put pressure on a slash and tried to pass on the info
There’s a clog from the skill of coagulation you taught her
Drag her up, drag her up, drag her up from beneath the surface
Disturb the water.

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from Save Your Breath, released February 1, 2016

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Rowan Lewis UK

I'm a 20-something songwriter from the UK. These are the things I record in my living room.

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