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Rusted and Unchanged (inspired by Ray Bradbury)

from The Horror Hymns of Creepy Cove Vol. 2 by Peter Laws

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There's a strange old man.
Sitting in my TV.
And when I try to be a better me.
He taps the screen so I know he sees.

He's a very clever man.
He keeps my book of failures.
He was there at my ultra-scan.
Guiding my behaviours.

CHORUS
Cos I am rusting and unchanged.
A padlocked, junkyard, old gate.
A silent house by the river.
But the river runs to the sea.
And in the centre, a magic dream.
A purring rocket.
Quivering.
Bouncing netted children.
Like flies inside a web.

But as the moon slides by.
I think about the petals.
All the tip-toed days of loss.
Awarded with his medals.

And this is not an easy thing.
For me to flip the station.
But tonight is the night I start
A different conversation.

CHORUS
Cos I am rusting and unchanged.
A padlocked, junkyard, old gate.
A silent house by the river.
But the river runs to the sea.
And in the centre, a magic dream.
A purring rocket.
Quivering.
Bouncing netted children.
Like flies inside a web.

MIDDLE
And I feel like...
I could skip the riot and not be found.
I could swim the river and not be drowned.

And I feel like...
I could swing this rocket over Mars.
And the stars would let me be.

CHORUS
Cos I am rusting and unchanged.
A padlocked, junkyard, old gate.
A silent house by the river.
But the river runs to the sea.
And in the centre, a magic dream.
A purring rocket.
Quivering.
Bouncing netted children.
Like flies inside a web.

I am rusting and unchanged.
I am rusting and unchanged.
I am rusting and unchanged.

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from The Horror Hymns of Creepy Cove Vol. 2, released May 27, 2021

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Peter Laws is an author and journalist specialising in horror and the unexplained. He is the creator of the horror themed church service podcast Creepy Cove Community Church as well as the host of scary true stories podcast, Frightful. www.peterlaws.co.uk/link-in-bio ... more

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