First Conversation
See-saw, the first conversation
Conventions of this turn taking
Glottal stops and verbal ticks
Tripping out the missives
And pre-scripted well wishes
You need more than words sometimes
To demonstrate what you can’t describe
My umms and ahhs are walking around
What I wanted to say
Fix a drink and take sip
Inebriate these giddy nerves
That start to inhibit
You need more than words sometimes
To demonstrate what you can’t describe.
In the Script
You say I’m not in your script
It doesn’t matter to me because you’re in mine
Blue moon rising from your mind
Come back to where you know
As I’m not tired
I forgot those words and half of you
But you’re the sound that I still hear
You lift me up and out my love, my dear
Remember to forget
I’m hiding in your case tonight
Moving out of the door so you won’t forget me
I should have been more around
To say those words
I forgot those words and half of you
But you’re the sound that I still hear
Come and be my life and my love
And remember to forget
Would you remember to forget
Take the chance to forget.
Always Now
No more I’ll intervene
When enough is as much as the past to me
Dog eared; our history
I’m tired and I’m weary of revisionist theory
Oh these crazy situations
That we find ourselves in
I’ll love you always now
In cerulean lights of morning
When there’s no resistance
I’ll love you always now
As early as October came
We can trace beginning, middle and end
Beyond summer’s bragging warmth
In winter’s bright blue weather
Is where we have loved the most
Oh these crazy situations
That we find ourselves in
I’ll love you always now
In cerulean lights of morning
When there’s no resistance
I’ll love you always now
Come in from the cold, I’ll love you always now
Come in from the cold, I’ll love you always now.
At the Controls
So you came in through the wrong door
Entered the room and crashed the party
Showed the heart of a robot, wrote it down
Until the disguise fit your abstract soliloquy
That meant nothing to me
When you were in control you messed it up
Took a fading light and lower dose that just don’t feel right
Big ideas and all the real ones
Await their take off in a one track mind that likes to run away
On itself to save face
Well I’ve had enough of these moments
For they’re always taken on the back foot
So for once let’s be selfish, write it down
And disappear, take that holiday
The one way ticket
When you were in control you messed it up
Took a fading light and lower dose that just don’t feel right
Big ideas and all the real ones
Await their take off in a one track mind that likes to run away
On itself to save face
At the controls, you’re turning this ship around on your own
And burning directions.
West With You
To say you’ve lost your joie de vivre
Well you know that is fine
I just hope it’s not on account of all this time
Spent living in a place
Where there’s just no light
Though you make me want to figure it out
We forget the names of days
Hanging on in this safe place
We forget the names of days
Hanging on in this safe place
Is it enough
Contribute nothing and do no harm?
Take me West with you
Come on come on
If I could replace this fear with trust
Take me West with you now
I want to lift my head up but I can’t find the strings
As weak as I am
You make me want to fight for this thing
Give in, it’s so easily carried on
It’s an abstract work, the picture not that clear at first
Is it enough
Contribute nothing and do no harm?
Take me West with you
Come on come on
If I could replace this fear with trust
Take me West with you now.
Not the Victim
You say you’re trapped in a lonely place
But it’s only in your head
Help yourself to life
Come on now
You’re not the victim now
Come on, come on
Wake up
If you carry on like this
Then you’ll be no better than the others
Closing your mind
You’re almost there now
So sunken your eyes
You’re almost there now
Feeling so small
You’re almost there now
You’re drowning in your own apathy
You’re a real work of art
But you chose your own path
So come on now
You’re not the victim now
Come on, come on
Wake up
And you’re almost there
But you just don’t want to reach it
It’s the way that you feel
So long, so long, goodbye
Life’s too short to be sad.
Oh Vincent
Your posthumous respect and fame
In one of many interiors
Well I recall where we sat
Though you dismissed it
So you trust, commit
But it’s not the modern way to live
At all
You’ve had your friends
And now you’ve got your enemies
Standing in your own light field lately
Oh Vincent cut the reeds that line the roads
You’re clearer now and closer somehow
Many a rejection leads life to pictures
A work that you will conclude
A fail safe escape route
So you trust, commit
But it’s not the modern way to live
At all
You’ve had your friends
And now you’ve got your enemies
Standing in your own light field lately
Oh Vincent cut the reeds that line the roads
You’re clearer now and closer somehow.
Between Stations
I want to say this again
There’ll be no sound of reaching over
When I open my eyes will you be there?
When I open my eyes wide
Hey slow down
And don’t panic now
Just say that again
Oh such a thing
I want to let go and forget
About tomorrow and everything else
Now you’ve made a break with those stabbing pains
That were making you sick
But before too long we are back again
We are back again
And I wonder how it might be
Closing our eyes
As everything is fine now
Hey slow down
And don’t panic now
Just say that again
Oh such a thing
I want to let go and forget
About tomorrow and everything else
Just say that again, oh such a thing
And be with me between stations.
Final Correspondence
I dropped you a line
As some of the things I couldn’t say
In a final correspondence to a friend
Hurry up now, daylight’s wasting
Describing the scene from memory
Is harder than you’d think
When the days are all but clear
And it’s your laugh that I long to hear again
So it sounds familiar
Now I’ve missed
The final collection
The casket letter will remain
On the mantelpiece
Behind your picture
Describing the scene from memory
Is harder than you’d think
When the days are all but clear
And it’s your laugh that I long to hear again
So it sounds familiar
Pull the other one
You’re surely mistaken
Only partial recall now
Through these cobwebs as a veil
On your face.
Trick of Light
I see your
Antiquities from
Foreign shores
They’re out on display
Reminding us of more sentient days
With each one a tale
That won’t be spoken
Because you’re not coming back
It was a trick of the light
Brightened up your eyes
But not your cognition
And it’s hard to tell you anything
As you are just not there
You’re just not there
You were once
Of elephantine
Recall
They’re out on display
Reminding us of more sentient days
With each one a tale
That wont be spoken
Because you’re not coming back
It was a trick of the light
Brightened up your eyes
But not your cognition
And it’s hard to tell you anything
As you are just not there
You’re just not there.
Say Something
Wish I were an hour away
When I’m thinking of all these things
They’re always near
If you are where I think, I think
It doesn’t really matter now
It’s all history
Say we won’t go there again
Because I will not go
Sunshine drive your way to her
Fight, oh fight, why won’t I fight?
I guess I’m not a fighter
Glitter on my face
From the night before
I cannot wash it all off
Can’t say
Why don’t we just go there again?
Why don’t we just go there again?
Because the different times
Blend into the scenery
We’ll all get along
Summer’s retreat is so near
I can feel it in my bones
Just say something now
Say something now.
Meet Me At The Pictures
Three hour films, no intermissions
Down at the Duke of York’s
The peripheral vision is all that I came for
So how long now ’till the lights go up
And the cause/effect concludes the plot?
In your eyes I see it all
We walk home through sideways rain
To discuss the night’s mise-en-sc’ne
Down in your basement, rewinding the mix tape
Drunken ballarats
White Russian, I’m happy now
So how long now ’till the lights go out
And will I ever be enough
Enough, my love?
I walk home through sideways rain
Guess the disorder won the day.