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Secret Dream Wife

from Ruthless Window by James Walsh

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Twee-pop! Track two is when I realised this was a thing that would actually happened. The lyrics came to me very easily: peripatetic lifestyle, perfect video games, the perils of living one's life online. This is probably the most obviously lockdown song on an album with a lot of lockdown.

The other thing to mention is this weird inability to cry at things other than "Up", "Wal-E", and "It's a Wonderful Life". I need more tears in my life.

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Another month in a brand new town
Barely leaving the eiderdown
Suckling and needling away… heyyy

You twist and turn as you face the truth
Your avatar is a troublesome goose
And all your love is melted to the screen

Permanent present unreal future
Your head is small but the ego suits yer
Looking for some meaning in the dirt and the muck and the air

You cry at Pixar but not your own life
No one’s as cold as your secret dream wife
The fear is always that there’s nothing there

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from Ruthless Window, released February 12, 2021

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James Walsh London, UK

James wrote his first song in 2009, when his then partner bought him a ukulele for his 30th birthday. He wrote a song about Laika, the first dog in space, and then got distracted by other things. This is his first attempt to write a coherent album of songs, but now this particular monkey is off his back he hopes to write a second album before the year is out. ... more

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