Allan from Marriage Material by Lorkin O'Reilly

Allan

Bullhorn blows black anorak
Long day in wait bus shelter back
Feeling the daylight and its passing me by
Well I need to make time this evening to write

Spoke to my mother last night on the phone
Her birthday’s coming up and I’m gonna fly home
Spend a long weekend walk in the park
Meet her new boyfriend change the oil in her car

She told me that Dad has a house across town
He’s living with a girl, she’s from Amsterdam
Says she don’t see him, she couldn’t remember
Well I hope that I see him when I’m home in September

Then I fell asleep next to the phone
I love her more than I let her know
I love her more than I let her know

So bullhorn blows and the black crows appear
I heard uncle Allan’s getting out in a year
He’ll live with my Grandma out on the coast
At least that is what his lawyers have proposed

He’s been locked up for most of my life
He murdered a child in 1999
Soon he’ll transition to a halfway house
Were all coming to terms with him getting out

And I think about his son he is my cousin
I love him to death but I don’t see him often
I love him to death

So bullhorn blows black anorak
Long day in wait bus shelter back
Feeling the daylight and its passing me by
Well I need to make time this evening to write

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