While We Slept At Last claims to be an album of twelve entirely new songs, “Monday Afternoon” is in fact a reworking of one of Marika’s earliest songs, called “Here I Lie”. Watch her perform it on a rooftop in Camden back in 2011 for Bristol Couch below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp6fmUD-DwI
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[Verse 1]
I have no head
The forest floor is my bed
The leaves that fall I use as a blanket
For my bones are as cold as lead
The weight of all those hungry mouths
The things they said
[Verse 2]
I have no eyes
The forest floor I despise
But I will not be gone in the morning
I'll lie, still here, I'll lie
You said to meet at the edge of the trees on a Monday afternoon
I waited 'til the noon
[Chorus]
Lay on your back, breathe it in
The sickly sweet of my rotting skin
And you followed the road
And it was just our dust
Just our dust
[Verse 3]
The trace of your steps
Leads right to where I took my breath
For the last time it lingers forever
As a ghost of where we last met
The stars were not so brave to show
What they don't know
[Chorus]
Lay on your back, breathe it in
The sickly sweet of my rotting skin
And you followed the road
And it was just our dust
Lay on your back, breathe it in
The sickly sweet of my rotting skin
And you followed the road
And it was just our dust
Standing there in the frosty air (Lay on your back, breathe it in)
I knew our time had come (The sickly sweet of my rotting skin)
And you followed the road
And it was just our dust
Just our dust
Just our dust
[Verse 4]
I feel no pain
The blood is frozen in my veins
And although you were here in the morning
My skin was cold before you came
My skin was cold before you came
Monday Afternoon was written by Marika Hackman.
Monday Afternoon was produced by Charlie Andrew.
Marika Hackman released Monday Afternoon on Mon Feb 16 2015.