Star Date from Mangle by Laurie Shaw

Star Date

A print of the Virgin Mary on the fireplace
A shell of it’s former self
Into the sea, Into the sea
This is a forbidden space
A chimney shaft with two trapped spirits
A dinner table lifts on it’s own
Me and the Faerie Queen
Check in at a Trident Holiday Home
Into the sea, into the sea

Bound by enchanted chains and we’re in deep trouble
(I am the ivy climbing up the garden wall)
Keeping up the pretense we’re a runaway couple
(I like you beside me I don’t think you know at all)

Down on a Dark Skies Reserve
You can see the stars leaping like wood frogs
Over the lough and into the hollyhocks
Then into the sea, into the sea

Bound in a hotel suite in a bit of bother
(I am the perfume climbing up the bedroom wall)
We put on Most Haunted and watch Derek Acorah
(I like you around me, I don’t think you know at all)

• Alternative
• alt rock
• pop
• rock'n'roll
• Kenmare