that unwanted animal
(this song has me in a chokehold, thanks artie)

{CATTY PORTER}

there's a second wind coming
as we lie here in our bed

{MISSY CARTER}

it rattles the bones of our fathers
carries whispers from the dead
and you?
you light a candle

{MASHA POPOVA}

I make sure the bairns are fed
you turn the telly on to drown out your fear

{ELLIE MAXWELL}

you make the bed up silent on the floor
so no one will hear us

{LAURA EASTON}

you try so loud to love me
I cannot seem to hear

{LUCIE DAVID}

cause you, you touch my skin peels off like paint
but beneath all of our panting there's this noise I cannot shake

{RACHEL STARK}

oh, can't you hear the scratching?
there's something at the door

{LAURA EASTON}

but the wind has picked us up now

{LUCIE DAVID}

we're hanging in the air
and as you grip me like an animal
that you're about to spear
"be good to me" I whisper
and you say

{LAURA EASTON}

"what?"

{LUCIE DAVID}

and I say
"nothing dear"

{RACHEL STARK}

can't you hear it?
it can hear you
it wants me to
throw the plate at the wall

{ELLIE MAXWELL}

I'm the paper cut that kills you
and the priest that you ignored

{TAMARA LINCOLN}

I'm the touch you crave and the plans that you made
but fuck all your plans, I'm bored

{MISSY CARTER}

can't you hear that scratching?
I ask your eyes

{MASHA POPOVA}

I've got a knuckle burn from typing all these lines into your chest
and as the belt from your buckle is tightening
I make ship wrecks out of my dress

{CATTY PORTER}

and the door below it splinters
as the creature creeps inside

{LORELEI & FRANKIE}

and we fall into each other

{ALL}

the scratching grows so loud
because that unwanted animal wants nothing more than to get out

{GEORGIE ROGERS}

and I scream
"what's the time, mister wolf?"
but you, your blind, you bleat, you bear your claws

{CATTY PORTER}

and you rip my ribcage open
and devour what's truly yours
and our screaming joins in unison

{SUSIE MAXWELL}

I cry out to the lord
cause if we join our hands in prayer enough to god
I imagine it all starts to sound like applause

{MISSY CARTER}

can't you hear it?
it can hear you

{RACHEL STARK}

it wants me to

{SUSIE MAXWELL}

and these plates, they smash like waves
and on the wind it howls

{LORELEI QUINZEL}

cause that second wind is coming, love
it's coming for all we own

{FRANKIE QUINZEL}

and on the creature scratches
it doesn't know how to get out

{ELLIE MAXWELL}

and you, you follow philosophies
oh, me, I laugh, I choke
hello, my hollow Holofernes
I wink but you don't get the joke

{LUCIE DAVID}

"hold the hand of the godchild" they said
as he falls from the sky

{FRANKIE QUINZEL}

"be good to me," I beg of him

{LORELEI QUINZEL}

"be good to me," I beg of him

{SUSIE MAXWELL}

be good

{ELLIE MAXWELL}

be good

{WINNIE WILLOWS}

be good

{LAURA EASTON}

be good

{LUCIE DAVID}

be good

{MASHA POPOVA}

be good

{CATTY PORTER}

be good

{ALL}

and he replies
"no, no, not I"