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Bloodsucker

from Creatures of the Night by Antipodeans

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Night horrors and insomnia

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The night is long and sleep is not my friend
A hint of rest is all I need
The night is dark and full of loathsome beasts
I am the target of their greed

There’s something crawling up my trouserleg
Maybe a cockroach or a centipede
One of the venomous varieties
There’s something buzzing at my windowpane
Yeah a mosquito or a tsetse fly
Probably carrying the plague

The sun has hung his hat upon the sky
The moon’s a mirror of my skin
I hear the scuttling of tiny feet
I feel the beat of tiny wings

A single sheet is like a tourniquet
I lose my pillow lest I suffocate
I am as naked as the day
The shadows crowding in around me
The worries scratching at my wall
I wall myself into my cave

The clock’s tickin like a hammer on an anvil
The fly’s buzzin like a chainsaw cutting down a tree
Time crawls like a bloodsucker, like a soulsapper

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from Creatures of the Night, released March 18, 2021
Words & Music Antipodeans 2021. Recorded at Grovehill Studios and Mastered at the Hackey Sack

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