- Ash Wednesday
A gale of psalms from the chapel doors
Some trembling song stretched heavenward
And carried on the cold wild wind
Lingering in March
Steadied hand on steady glass
A toast to absent company
Bartered blood and borrowed brass
- Colombian Fireworks
Red-eyed and desperately sad,
A girl in Columbia whispered to Cesan
'My sister is dead. My sister, whose life was mine.
What can I do?'
Cesan took her trembling hands and warmed them between his own.
'Water and ice,' He said, his eyes shining. 'Ice and water'
- Flirted With You All My Life
I am a man
I am self-aware
And everywhere I go
You're always right there with me
I flirted with you all my life
Even kissed you once or twice
And to this day I swear it was nice
- Foreign Thoughts
She says she barely sleeps
And if she does it's fitfully
Hears footsteps in the leaves
And if she dreams she dreams of
The sounds you'll never speak
The words left out between the beat
Of clashing teeth and tongues
The roar of background hum
- Guising
The words spilled out my cloudy head
You were eloquent and elegant instead
When I took you into the game
You hadn't been before so I had to explain
And then on halloween
Faces painted white and guising the streets
A pair of ghosts from door to door
- Headlights
We breathe out and the words in the smoke fumes grow
Out our mouths, I'm leaving in a bad way, in a bad way
Acquaintances and friends comparing compliments all night
A flash of skeleton grins, discordant noise, the talking dims..
- Here Is Where
The city sleeps but we're awake
We spirit home before the break
Of dawn upon the streets
In which we live and love and breathe
And half the high-rises have turned to dust
The Fairfields now are scrap and rust
The sirens sing, the west wind howls
What once was here was holy ground
- I Like The Lights
Words that I forgot
In an ear too thick to breed
In an alfabet of lust
and in a language I can't speak
Lets take a shortcut trough the square
I like the lights they put up there
Shiver in the cold
- In Excelsis Deo
Well i can't wait for Christmas
Been buckle-knee'd and listless. And you say
That you've been wishing weeks away
We hung the lights out in the street
Twisted round the bows of trees
The choir sung it's holiest refrains
- Joined Up Writing
in the darkness
and the static's in your hand
and the warm sense of solace that blows round the ground
and the ()
and the clouds that you can't see
as (your/her) chest fills the frame
as (your/her) chest fills the flame
- Midfield Maestro
I'll fade away
And you can say you never saw my face
Or that you never heard my name
If I show up at your house
Then please don't scream and shout
Its only cause i don't know where to go
And my tongue gets tied in knots
- River
Walking by the river, going home
(We're together, shoulder close)?
Singing loud enough to wake the dead.
Out of tune and out of breathe.
and I'm heading the wrong way back
Every callous word I take it back
My tongue was loose my tongue was slack
- Says Aye
So now you've found the light that you kept forgetting
Cold hands and starry eyes that could brighten up the night
And fold in change
But when we're buried in the earth
Those starry eyes won't fade
Just say yes, say yes, says I
Aye
Aye
- So Stay Close
You found home, it was all that you'd been told
My love, o our blood like the river flowed
So stay close
Let it glow, let it spark
Fast and slow
Burning bright in the dark
- South Street
Stayed up late, we tried to dream ourselves away
We've been growing up with grace, been wondering if I should stay
Well if you say so
Heaven knows she's not quite who she hoped she'd be
And heaven knows I disagree
She's not in time and don't misspeak
You wild and worldly boy
- This Feels Like
This feels like
I'm the list that you're brushing off your brand new sleeve
Heartless inclined
To be patient while I work out how to work you
With these average grade hands
Controlled by imperfect wits and thoughts, tied up in knots
With your clothes, legs and the plain white linen
White snakes in the garden hidden
- We Were A Roman Candle
It's 10 to 5, you probably should start walking,
Or else you won't get home before it gets light,
So if the Earth should spin right off its axis
And roll out into space you'd be wrapped up tight,
So if it all came tumbling down,
You wouldn't be aware, you wouldn't hear a sound,
- Youngblood
You've been twisting, turning in your sleep
Your nerves all cut to ribbon, you can barely eat
You're far from home, far from home
Hearing voices on the underground
They built you up and, boy, they will cut you down
And break your bones, break your bones
- Your House Was Aglow
Your house was aglow
Blazing through the smoke
I saw you walking out the flames
I heard you still look the same
As you did when I knew you then
Bright as a full cloudless moon