Jacob Davies
'Vivian Goes Home' - Who is Jacob Davies?
Recorded version of 'Vivian Goes Home' as part of EP 'Who is Jacob Davies?'.
'Vivian Goes Home' can be found in poetry collection 'The Things They've Never Seen'
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Words - Jacob Davies
Read by - Jacob Davies
Edit - Jacob Davies
Music - Amber Spill & Megan Wofford
Woman's Voice - Hannah Murray as Cassie Ainsworth
Words
'Standing solemnly by the kitchen sink
Oh god, what must his parents think?
Second place stands tall, and riddled with delusional shame,
With only a hat to hide away from, the agony outside the window frame.
Martha petulantly cries for second place
In a wretched call of desperation, a plea for some taste
Of course, he runs obligingly so,
Stricken by internal woe.
She sits and cries with him at the bar
Ripped jeans know, the game has gone too far
A life unfolds, the day draws to a close, taking time to grieve,
Over what could’ve been.
Torn sleeves and empty dreams
Line up with sly smiles, in Vivian’s head
The freedom of movement in her light stepping feet,
Is clouded by sheer, northern dread.
As Martha comes alive, with him at the bar
A sickening memory of life, can be seen enter from afar
A face of vexation rears its dominant head,
As the first place that haunts him, steps in instead.
For you are all the landscape now,
As Vivian sits alone in the rain.
Her head rolls in agonising seduction
As second place is made to watch, from aside… from above
The cruel and sickening game
Some people call love.
Vivian’s head rolls freely as fragility is cast
A stomach in knots, lined by vodka shots
The sun rests upon sunny, apple blonde hair
The living symbol, the living sign… of an afterthought.
Martha waves goodbye to second place
His emotions now cast away, to outer space
Run-away far he does, from the fickle dancer
He calls loud for Vivian, but silence is the answer.
The only hand now to lay on her shoulder
A gentle touch of rain
The only day she was truly in control arrives
Sirens patrol the plain
Suicidal heartbeats, they flatline all the same
As Vivian, goes home again.'