Name: The Truant
Duration: P00H04M03S
Description: The Truant is one card in a pack of cards that are Transfigured, a live event by Oceanallover.

The Truant

from Transfigured by Oceanallover

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The Truant is one card in a pack of cards that are Transfigured, a live event by Oceanallover.

lyrics

The Truant (A Sea Shanty)

I’ve gone out fishing, looking lovely in net
caught cold stone napping, carborundum and wet
life grinds me sharper, makes me keen to forfend
takes off the dull edge, all beliefs re-suspended.

Truancy officer, fair-weather flake
look me up dress me down
I’m a card, no mistake.

You came to see me as someone to see through
sent you a postcard so you’ll take a view too
I signed the contract with invisible ink
I may leave a small smell but I won’t raise a stink.

Truancy officer, fair-weather flake
look me up dress me down
I’m a card, no mistake.

Diminishing dial tones, my bell ringing out
all calls unanswered within and without doubt
my wherewithall isn’t where I put it down last
I’d go out to find it if I could be assed.

Truancy officer, fair-weather flake
look me up dress me down
I’m a card, no mistake.

Pass the wine, Ouzo, the crass pop tune cheeries
so good at decline, so bored and so leery
chin to the future, the now and the then, then
this void in my head space was made and now mended

An absentee landlord whose front door is broken
a heart that is half of an underground token
gestures that keep me in isolate beauty
separate thusly my needs from my duty.

Truancy officer, fair-weather flake
look me up dress me down
I’m a card, no mistake.

credits

from Transfigured, released October 1, 2019
Lead Vocal - Fionnuala Dorrity
Music - Fionnuala Dorrity
Words - Alex Rigg

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Oceanallover Scotland, UK

Oceanallover are a dance, design and theatre company making original and exciting new work. We collaborate with a wide range of musicians working across many styles.

oceanallover.co.uk

discography

Sluff (the second)

Sep 2023
Sluff (the first)

Apr 2023
Common Lizard

Sep 2021
Transfigured

Oct 2019
Orographic

Sep 2018
Sea Hames

Nov 2017
Not to Scale

Feb 2017
Bellmouth Papercone

Nov 2016
POLLEN

Dec 2014

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