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Lot's Wife

from Seduction by The Sedatives

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Lot’s Wife

Don’t look too closely at this glow between our eyes
or the whole damn thing goes up in smoke.
Don’t watch my hands as they stretch towards your side
or you’ll be forced to pass it of as my little joke.
Keep your eyes on the wineglass as you raise it to your lips.
Keep your eyes on the kitchen’s Denby-ware.
Keep your eyes on the cover of the simmering soup-tureen.
Keep your eyes from my maniacal stare.

Don’t look...don’t ask...don’t examine what could be.
Keep up the illusion, this alkaloidal trance,
this pretence of a normal summer eve.

Try not to see the love that’s lying on the table,
else the veil that protects it rends in two.
Pretend that we’re adult, responsible and stable;
a pair of suburb-met good friends, and you
should keep your eyes on the clock that’s ticking slowly.
Watch the slightly chipped varnish of your nails.
Stare through the window at the shadowed linden tree.
Keep breathing steady...breathe... exhale.

Don’t talk....don’t think... don’t ask if what we’re doing’s somehow wrong.
Just act out the part, this distal courtly dance,
and listen for allusions in a song.

And when I walk away I won’t take a glance behind
or let the sweet smell of your breath cause me to halt.
Lest the Merlot in my gut should acquire a bitter taste
of juniper and quinine and of salt.
Keep close to your breast the coal forbidden to take flame,
If your eye cause you to sin just wear dark glasses.
And I’ll deny the lust that dare not speak its name,
such sentimental passion always passes.

Music and lyric © David Banks 1999

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from Seduction, released December 24, 2015
Vocals and instruments by The Sedatives (Bjørn Frengstad and David Banks)
Recorded and pre-mixed by The Sedatives
Mixed by Jonny Cole at The Mill Studio, Norfolk
Mastered at Philosopher's Barn, Norfolk
Music and lyric © David Banks 1999

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The Sedatives Chesterfield, UK

The Sedatives are Bjørn Frengstad and Dave Banks.

They first sung together as members of the mythical "Groundwater Boys" in Trondheim, Norway, and continued to write and play following Dave's return to Chesterfield, UK, in 1998.

They have toured their music throughout western Siberia and selected pubs in the eastern Peak District of Derbyshire. ... more

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