Flat Of Angles Part 3 - Benedict Cumberbatch.mp3

[00:00.28]And now for the third part of four-part late night tales story
[00:03.44]Flat of Angles
[00:04.74]Written by Simon Cleary
[00:06.10]And read by me Benendict Cumberbatch
[00:08.31]I just can't access my thoughts
[00:11.80]Or put them into words
[00:14.06]I think now my brain recycle been awaiting deletion
[00:17.33]Still no reply to my text, I send to its...
[00:20.08]Oh, let me see
[00:21.85]9:48, and it's now 10 o'clock
[00:25.68]She hasn't texted to me in response
[00:27.30]To my imploring, longing, yearning message
[00:29.72]Full of wiring sudden grief
[00:31.44]Thus, morning!
[00:33.83]How are you?
[00:35.08]I enjoyed our journey in the dark so can't wait last night!
[00:39.22]Back at my place, looking forward to the gig tonight
[00:42.03]What time can you get there?
[00:43.33]Where is Rhythem Factory?
[00:44.95]Have a great day!
[00:47.47]Kiss
[00:50.20]As many questions as possible all crying out for response
[00:52.94]Surface lightness, reflective even
[00:55.16]Asking after, referring to events our showing her I'm thinking of her
[00:59.15]The kiss bow
[01:00.56]That was contemplative for a good five minutes althought we held hands briefly
[01:05.40]Near McDonald's on the Earl's Court Road last night
[01:07.50]I don't know that was to forward the kiss, too presumptuous now
[01:11.69]But, her touch, sent a clean electric impulse through me
[01:16.37]Up my mind, into my brain
[01:21.25]It cuts through the K, the sodium light
[01:25.27]The rain I longed to protect her from my arms
[01:30.42]Now he's check of the message this phone results
[01:33.17]A little clutch of pain somewhere of the sanity is heart
[01:38.94]The snails are climbing all over the wall in my bathroom
[01:43.68]There is a bush outside the window
[01:44.97]When it rains if I've left the window open
[01:47.32]Which I need to, sometimes 
[01:50.29]They crawl in
[01:52.86]The iridescent tracery they leave on 
[01:54.91]Unknown journey sparkles in the bob light
[01:57.06]I take a Tesco-bag glove and gather them
[02:01.89]Bundle them out the window
[02:08.27]My time spend with you before the war
[02:14.68]She said she was going to Spain, hoped it wouldn’t rain
[02:17.16]Heard it wouldn’t rain. I wanted to go too
[02:18.96]She said she was a solo traveler
[02:20.83]But it was her rule
[02:21.85]She goes on journeys alone
[02:23.75]With plenty to read
[02:25.20]Recommend some books, so that perhaps a thought of me would go with her
[02:28.03]Perhaps I am the only thought she had
[02:29.56]Or more probably, she never thought of me, as I did of her
[02:33.59]I wanted to say these things
[02:35.95]But there was always a wall around me
[02:38.12]I could never tell people how much they meant to me
[02:40.19]I could tell others how much I hated some people
[02:42.09]But could never even tell a friend I appreciated their company
[02:45.24]Until I’d had 10 cans, then it would descend into a stereotypical drunken
[02:49.44]“You’re my best mate, you are.” 
[02:51.72]So we opened that bottle of absinthe, and sat on the couch
[02:59.58]I knocked a copy of The Face onto the floor
[03:04.05]The Face 
[03:04.75]And cleared away a few cans with my boots
[03:06.04]We turned to face each other there
[03:07.20]An my knee touched hers
[03:10.15]I looked at our knees together
[03:12.58]Hers at the top of the black leather boots, hidden in grey woollen tights
[03:15.33]With little bobbles on them
[03:18.40]Her knee moved imperceptibly away
[03:22.91]But I felt it
[03:27.13]I looked up to her face
[03:28.33]As she said “Drink a shot with me, and look me in the eye as you do.”
[03:32.11]We did
[03:35.90]I didn’t feel the effect of the alcohol
[03:38.77]But her eyes gave me a warm glow
[03:43.05]I was swallowed by them
[03:45.48]As she swallowed the green liquid
[03:48.41]I couldn’t get enough
[03:50.84]We did it again and again
[03:54.94]Rinse, then repeat
[03:58.42]As needed
[04:03.03]Well, we were fabric for a drama bass night
[04:05.72]We were about to bow about four
[04:07.83]Just getting our coats, when we were
[04:09.19]Tim getting some sorts of trouble
[04:10.89]With the coat room attendant, he lost his ticket
[04:12.42]She said "we'd have to wait until the end to get the coat
[04:15.72]So we had to sit outside
[04:17.14]By the meat market, in the freezing cold
[04:19.92]At least wear our coats
[04:21.73]Until 8, when it was finally over
[04:25.41]Tim's was only coat hanging around in the middle of this desert
[04:28.15]And then Tim, put his hand, in his jeans' pocket
[04:31.77]And pulls out a sweat rubbish ruffled ticket
[04:34.60]Saying "I had it all along"
[04:37.89]Doug, saw this, he just screws his hands up into his face
[04:41.59]Forces them to his side
[04:43.76]Shaking, grating his teeth, groaning
[04:47.71]Moving off slowly, muttering "fuuuuuuuu(ck)"
[04:51.90]"Fuuuuuuuu(ck)" Oh no, my number will be on her phone
[04:57.70]They’ll know
[04:59.44]I need to get round there and delete the calls
[05:03.83]So it
[05:06.46]Out of the strong, came forth sweetness
[05:16.36]It says that on the tins of Lyle’s Golden Syrup
[05:18.93]Have you ever noticed that?
[05:20.20]It has a picture of a lion, dead
[05:21.64]Surrounded by bees, buzzing around
[05:23.50]And feasting on the lion’s innards
[05:25.27]It is from a Biblical story
[05:26.29]Someone was going somewhere
[05:27.42]Saw the lion dead in the sunshine
[05:29.00]And carried on
[05:30.10]On his way back
[05:30.97]The bees had started to form a hive within the lion
[05:34.42]And were creating honey
[05:36.34]Hence out of the strong...
[05:41.17]I have enough here to join her, to join the lion
[05:45.29]I can’t walk around the block once more, again
[05:52.00]I’ve been doing that for years, and I have never escaped
[05:57.87]I don’t even know why I’m doing it
[06:01.57]I’m going nowhere, like those snails, except out the window
[06:10.00]The streets are full of mercenary eyes
[06:12.54]Veins full of evil serum
[06:16.00]90 degrees from window
[06:18.88]Right down to its gables
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