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A Lover's Body

from Love in Tyburn's Shade by Without History

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A Lover’s Body

Black mud
Dried Blood

Dragged him through the streets in windings
Just two more girls with a sack of dirt
Stumble safely through the darkness
Just two more girls invisible and poor

Room full of corpses
Air full of rot

Every slab a corpse
We dump our faceless burden on the stone
Every slab a loved one
But only this a rich man’s tomb as well
They’ll all go to the surgeons
Cut up and despised
I scan the row of faces
And suddenly I recognise

When last I saw him Newgate pale
He held me tight as cord round bale
His cheeks alight with fever’s fire
His chains wrapped tight by that fucking liar
And now he’s dead and cold on stone
His eyes as milk, his skin like bone
The lips that kissed me
The mouth that engulfed me
A home for rot and worms

The hanging was tomorrow
Why’s he lying here?

The bastards killed him early
The bastards rushed him here
Threw a rope around his neck
And brought true my worst fear
There’ll be no grave to mourn
Just pickled flesh for the surgeons
A rope to snap his neck,
Another faggot broken for the fire

He called me Sally and held me as a girl

Never feel him spend inside me
Never feel his breath upon my neck
Never feel his hand on my breast
Never share his warmth in winter cold

He should not be here
“Mother, why’s he here?” I scream
She holds me, begs me look again
She holds me, begs me look again

“This isn’t Tommy, he’s in Newgate still,
“Your eyes deceive you, your lover’s still alive”

The illusion fades, a stranger lying there.

“Tommy will never lie in this place…”

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from Love in Tyburn's Shade, released April 15, 2022

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Without History Wales, UK

Without History is one trans girl, her bass guitars and her looper. Exploring trans history through neofolk and post punk inspired music these songs try to imagine the lives of our trans ancestors in all their messy queer detail.

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