Napoleon Complex

from Marriage Material by Lorkin O'Reilly

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Allan

Bullhorn blows black anorak
Long day in wait bus shelter back
Feeling the daylight and its passing me by
Well I need to make time this evening to write

Spoke to my mother last night on the phone
Her birthday’s coming up and I’m gonna fly home
Spend a long weekend walk in the park
Meet her new boyfriend change the oil in her car

She told me that Dad has a house across town
He’s living with a girl, she’s from Amsterdam
Says she don’t see him, she couldn’t remember
Well I hope that I see him when I’m home in September

Then I fell asleep next to the phone
I love her more than I let her know
I love her more than I let her know

So bullhorn blows and the black crows appear
I heard uncle Allan’s getting out in a year
He’ll live with my Grandma out on the coast
At least that is what his lawyers have proposed

He’s been locked up for most of my life
He murdered a child in 1999
Soon he’ll transition to a halfway house
Were all coming to terms with him getting out

And I think about his son he is my cousin
I love him to death but I don’t see him often
I love him to death

So bullhorn blows black anorak
Long day in wait bus shelter back
Feeling the daylight and its passing me by
Well I need to make time this evening to write

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from Marriage Material, released August 20, 2021

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Lorkin O'Reilly Dublin, Ireland

Lorkin O'Reilly is a singer-songwriter who writes reflective narratives that fall naturally into the musical spaces he creates; warm, confessional sounds, with nods to traditional folk music. He came to the United States from Scotland when he was eighteen, and settled in New York's Hudson Valley. He currently resides in Catskill. ... more

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