Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Black Dissimulation lyrics

Sweet ill health has hidden from me Events about which one has no memory Whether it is to protect or deny One is not told and one asks not why The noise near the trees gathers into a block One drinks just to where one is able to talk Tries to confuse things that surely occurred By stretching and acting like one hasn't heard Blank indiscretion and testing of lines At the end of a farm there to kick it To find a young dog, swollen and bald And to giggle and poke it and stick it To sit in the drive and pull a head down Or to push in the way of an oncoming blow To take wine on holidays when no-one's in town To dislike someone and let them so know Let it burn out this morning at home The stove and the kitchen; the howl and the steam And lay on the couch sometimes resting alone In order to utter a decorative scream Discussed and disgust, and a pretense of light Persistent denial, waylaid in the night Ignoring the stupid and hating the silence Disliking the prurient, disdaining the violent Denying the rice and accepting the drink However it comes at the start of a fall Take it whenever you get it; you think You're unlucky ever to get it all You're rude to the relatives, cold to the friends Unpleasant to God when he comes by the house One tries to across as the storm it begins And goes to the inlet to see things out