Name: A Stitch in Time
Duration: P00H03M32S
Description: The Bullyman dies.

A Stitch in Time

from A Stitch in Time by The Madding Crowd

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The Bullyman dies.

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A stitch in time
a stitch in time
clings to another stitch in time
and all the stitches will combine
to make a tapestry.
A tapestry that starts at birth
depicts the best times and the worst
it strips you to your soul
and makes you answer to yourself.
Now all the decades fly on by
as every little stitch in time
endows the bags beneath your eyes
with decades-worth of hate;
the kind of hate that will not speak,
the kind of hate that makes you weak
the kind of hate that makes you scream
behind stone countenance.
The stitches were fresh at the start
and almost as pure as your heart,
the oldest stitches, dimmer now,
these days, can't quite be seen.
Now all the stitches reek of sin
they reek of fear and ravaged skin,
you stink of waste, you stink of shame,
you stink of all you loathed.
You'll stink that stink until the end,
when stitching slows and health descends,
and only then you'll see in dreams
the early tapestry,
and you'll regret the wasted time
that characterised your decline,
you'll beg for one more shot at life
but there'll be no more thread.
Oh, then at last,
you'll be no more,
and then your smile will be restored,
for death's the only time in life
you ever got to win.
It begins...

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from A Stitch in Time, released May 26, 2014

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The Madding Crowd Manchester, UK

The Madding Crowd are a psychotropic Glam-Punk 4-piece from the council-neglected cauldron of north Manchester, England. They formed in 2010 with brothers Ben and Dominic Corry on vocals and guitar respectively, and their cousin Claud Corry on bass. This nucleus has stood firm since. In 2018, after a 2-year hiatus the band returned with the mercurial Sam Smith on drums. ... more

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