MOVIESCREENS

Play the part blue, play the act cold
Play me sideways, it don’t matter
I gave up on consequence
See the redshift turn to blueshift
Throw me a bone, it don’t matter
It seemed too hard anyway

Tell me don’t stop till your head drops
Break it right through the still weather
And leave me with my delay
Reach the right wave
Kill the old days
Send me your love in static
I cried for you yesterday

Too many times
The moviescreen burned a little bright
The moviescreen bled a different lie, a better lie
Be happy now
The moviescreens grew with lighter steps

Too long went by
And I sold my soul for a better lie
And it left me hungry too many times

CENTURY

Fear your century won’t last

Here I grieve
The battles won
Your love is cold
The words won’t flow
It’s safe to run

Here we bleed
I wouldn’t stay
You wouldn’t go
Now I cant hold you here

Fear your century won’t go

Here we bleed
I wouldn’t go
You wouldn’t stay
For I might run

BRIGHT LIGHTS WILL HARM NO-ONE

Don’t hesitate and wait for signposts to raise the stakes
Your hands around my slow escape
Time implodes then starts again, and forms in shapes

Pale as water and paper thin
These subtle meanings won’t make the grade
I bought a rainbow to guard your sky
In my defence, I don’t know why

Sounds we didn’t share
Five years gone and you still act like you don’t care

Eyes roll into the sun
Bright lights will harm no one
Speak now my hummingbird
Laughter won’t count as words

We’ll pass the parcel
Till the music stops
But we won’t dance till we’ve forgot
We can’t be single and we can’t be whole
And the bitter truth is we can’t be both

NAUTICAL SONG

Don’t you fire the warning
Don’t you fire the warning sign
You have only minutes
And I have only seconds to find
That we’re supposed to be here
That we’re supposed to find life in the eyes
But if you turn the axis
You’ll find that I am on your side

You’ll stand to ask the question
But lie the answers on their side
I need time to grow arms
I need time to push your world aside
But if your world still wants me
I’ll take the biggest steps I can find

Its forever till we know

Louder, louder
Everyone so quiet, so still
Wait for explosions to thrill
I’m out for a second chance to feel
Taller, taller
When did you grow so hard to find
You changed, but I held on
Too much too late
We both pretend
To stay the same
We both pretend
To face the day
We all pretend to stay the same

Do you hold your secrets close to your every night?
Are you happy with less?
Do you think you have years to decide?
I made holes in my lungs
I made holes when I screamed to come home
Head to Toe I’m waiting
Head to toe I’ll wait till the end
For my mind holds the facts
But my feet wont walk anywhere but here

You say go slow
The nightmares, they never need know
They tell you to keep quiet
They tell you stand still
But life won’t go slow
The nightmares they always know
They’ll wake you when you sleep
They’ll shake the ground at your feet

MY RADIO STAR

Hide the scary face in the dark
It will come for you when the lights go out
It says “you’ll never have the strength to awake, my radio star”
Pay the pretty girl with a song
It will wear you down till you hear no sound
And every time your heart skips a beat
Remember I lied

You’re out of time

Chasing all the facts through the sky
It’s been so long now that I learnt to fly
But I placed my shiny prize way too high
My radio star

It had to be pure
It had to be something
But I wasn’t quite sure how the wires in this world worked
They buried the quiet and they buried our secret
But I wasn’t quite sure now
I wasn’t quite sure now

It’s hard I know
Its hard but you can’t hide

HALF HORIZON

Half light
Sit on satellites
And move in spite of the half light
Built a tower that’s flawed to fail
Your adult armour grows a shader stale

Stare at the half horizon
Be sure that you want to lie there
Break every bone to save your half life

Jump into the jaws and think fast
Your shadows a duller creature
I’d break every bone to raise you
I’d break every bone to raise this from you

My whole life
I feared this my whole life
I wanted to save your life (your half life)
Don’t hold what’s old
Don’t hold the old
Don’t fear your half life

WAR PIGEON

Bend your surprise round the human disaster
Feed her with thoughts and a tired lullaby
Hypnotised steps to the lull of the birdsong
With me you’ll waltz to the sounds in your head

I bought my luck and I bought my time
I had my chance and lost a mile
Now I won’t be long, just time to sigh
I had my chance and lost both times

These city ruins breed the human disaster
She knows she’s been drunk if there’s dirt in her nails
And listens to birdsong to find her way home

I bought my luck and I bought my time
Won’t you lead me now?

FOG SKY NUN

Into the heart we go
You said I didn’t want it anyway
Into the past we flow
I’ll save it for another day

But if you’re the one for me…say please

I found
She said and he said,
I never had a chance never had a chance
I’ve never had more than this
Well maybe once
And it took me by surprise, took me by surprise
It took me by

Forever the angry tongue
You said I’m too headstrong to love again
Well slip into someone else
And blame it on the old romance
But if you’re the one for me say please

I don’t need to fear a million miles from here

17

Calm disciple, the symmetry of touch
Unmasked in fiction. I breathe you in
I drank your poison and spun its gold
But I don’t feel so rich
It all depends on you

Don’t be so shy
I held your life
It’s who I used to be
Lay down at 17
Don’t be so shy
It’s who I used to be
Gave up at 17

Don’t raise the dead
I won’t back if you say…

We lived through the ice age to carve our angel wings
And my feet start to tingle as we reach for higher ground

STALKING MOON

Stalking moon don’t laugh at me
For my heart was heavy and sank at sea

Treading water in thirsty seas
Tides please take me to where my heart still grieves

Please tell me now it was the right thing to do
Please tell me now it was the right thing for you

BPD

Lies opened up this road
The only place the truth has left to go
And when your love falls short I wait
But your gone

Tied to the rootless half
The half that self destructs
When its missed the mark
And if my eyes weren’t stuck on someone new
Then I’d fire

I had time to choose
But this thing that breaks me
I couldn’t bear to lose
I know your will got tired and I froze
Now your gone

Stop, I wouldn’t mind at all
But you build disasters and never watch them fall
And when your life falls short
I won’t mind
Now I’m gone

AS OUR BLOOD SEPARATES

Brave my little world
Wrapped up with string and curls
Now its all I’ve got
Got the rest of our lives to exhale this dust

I’ll roll out the corpses
She’ll run out on me
She'll run out on me

Play this tug or war
Pulled apart by a dead mans rope
Now I can’t slow down
I’ll make mountains and castles but their only stone
Gotta reconnect
Clocked too many miles in that dead mans head

I’ll roll out the corpses
She’ll run out again
She'll run out again

Guilt won’t slow this angry march
What’s one plus two?
It holds the thrill

I will let you down
I will let you down

What of love and lies remain?
With time our blood will separate

Then I will hesitate
Then I will hesitate

CARNIVAL SONG

Paint your colours over my old life
Your blue inks brave now
Your blue ink says “I’m alive…now won’t you try”

Hear my good advice
Your build this way and you’ll never change

Hide your conscience under your disguise
Your too high to function
Your too blue to paint over eyes
Just mine

Twist my arms round tight
At midnight we fight and secretly smile

The cost of my desire
Its always too much, then never enough

Pull my arms round
Pull my arms round tight