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Keep the nightmares out

from Before the robots told us where to go by Joe Peacock

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This is the fourth single to be released from the album, with its release coinciding with the album release on December 3rd 2021. It tells the story of American poet Anne Sexton, who was a contemporary and friend of Sylvia Plath, yet much less well known. You can read more about it here: joeonmusic.tumblr.com/post/634344827653341184/sketches-of-human-beings-anne-sexton

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Keep the nightmares out

She played the clown, the carpenter, the nurse and the witch
A woman who felt every bump and scratched every itch
With her ear close to her soul, she listened hard and long
Her sickness stifled all the joy that she had known

The daisies thanked her for her admiration innocent and white
But picket fences couldn’t keep the nightmares out
Her eyes full of terrible confessions and mouth stained by an old kiss
But still Anne skipped around in post poetical bliss.

She said that love was like a cough and you just can’t conceal it
But lost in her mind without a map she could not feel it
Writers are phonies who don’t live by their own insights
But when your life goes backwards it’s hard to keep up the fight

The trouble with life is that people are strangers
And the joy that isn't shared dies young
She was the crazy one who thought words reach people
But then she left the engine on.

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from Before the robots told us where to go, released December 3, 2021
Lyrics by Joe Peacock
Music by Joe Peacock and Joe Adhemar
Performed by Joe Peacock
Produced by Joe Adhemar

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I'm a prolific singer-songwriter from Birmingham - a genre-hopping storyteller, whose music has been compared to Bowie, Blur, Costello and many others. Mostly, my songs tell stories that I find interesting and thought provoking. My music has all been recorded at home so far and all money from the digital sales of my music go into paying producers/mixing & mastering engineers. ... more

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