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Shapeshifter

from Moondays EP by De Selby Codex

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I can get the mistletoe and yew berries from the garden, but what you might call secret ingredients I have to liberate from sick friends or teenagers in the underpass. When I've brewed it up nice and thick most goes in the freezer for storage, but I can't resist having a wee swig there and then. I knock it back and pass out almost immediately. When I wake I'm someone else, every step a swagger and voice full of bravado. I can change at will: to some people I'm the thoughtful, sensitive soul; with others I'm brutal. I'm plastic. I skin-walk my way through different lives, re-creating myself to fit in with what friends expect or forging a new self with people who don't know me at all. You know what you need from me. I know that you need a friend. We all want to be something, shapeshifters to the end. I'm a strawman. When I'm in company and the snow begins to fall I can't help assuming shapes in order to snare people, striking attitudes like a scarecrow on no man's land, reducing their opinions to the absurd as they parry and thrust at an empty form. I change for everyone: I've been a local boy and a man of the world, an old hand and ingenue, shifting shapes with mistletoe and yew. You know what you need from me. I know that you need a friend. We all want to be something, shapeshifters to the end.

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from Moondays EP, released July 4, 2012
Barney Curry/Niall Ó Siadhail/Tim Curry/Guido Cattabianchi

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If the voices in your head could sing, program a synth and bash some instruments, this is what they’d sound like. Niall Ó Siadhail, Barney Curry and Jamie Shaw are travel agent, tour guide and customer service operative respectively on a musical journey down your auditory chimneys. Smoke alarms at the ready; Victorian sweeps need not apply. ... more

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