David Keenan ~ The Boarding House (Live from Groningen)

"The Boarding House" - Live from Groningen
Captured by Adam Heffernan in a Lutheran Church, Groningen, Netherlands. The venue had emptied by this stage, I saw an opportunity to play the synthetic ivories, a song about the need for skin on skin in a rented room.
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Lyrics:
I entered a room filled with elbows and knees
A lantern was hanging by a surrealist painting
I opened my mouth, shrapnel sailed through the air
Tonight I want to lie with someone who doesn't care
Tonight I want to lie with someone who doesn't care
If my laces are tied or my background is poor
Is this too much to ask, take this lock of my hair
And lead me to a lover up the creosote stained stair
Her skin was the colour of an Italian summer
Her eyes carried sadness and hope in equal measure
Her head of tangled curls remained untouched by chemicals
An ancestral trait that made her mother proud
She said she lived by the ocean but she longed for the fields
For other streets and other alleys where more crimes are committed
She commented on my lips, then we slowly undressed
I called upon the nine sisters while she called out my name
Tonight I want to lie with someone who doesn't care
If my laces are tied or my background is poor
Is this too much to ask, take this lock of my hair
And lead me to a lover up the creosote stained stair
Now naked I sit staring on the edge of the bed
Come back down to me boy, for my feet are getting cold
Though your mind be a hive
Your beige body needs it's rest
I just sucked on a cigarette like a child on a breast
Tonight I want to lie with someone who doesn't care
If my laces are tied or my background is poor
Is this too much to ask, take this lock of my hair
And lead me to a lover up the creosote stained stair.

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Undoubtedly the very finest talent that i have uncovered this century.
I wish everyone could discover him, even the King of Ethiopia.

[@yunkanjini]

David Keenan, you are one of my favourite human beings I have never met.

[@Ph5oebe]

God this is gorgeous

[@fiercefella]

Beautiful

[@georgelorimer6335]

That was beautiful David, thank you. Onwards now ❤

[@joansherwin4119]

Wow 😍

[@giacomocarbone6898]

Beautiful mate, i love the remake of your old video... very creative. I cant tell you how much i appreciate your art, it inspires me as an artist

[@riverdonoghue9992]

Amazing

[@amandafeliciano542]

Wow this is beautiful!