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【01.Thirsty】

I came to under a red moon

Thirsty for water

My eyes were like shovels in the soil of the sky

Digging in to the night to find solace

Burying emptiness

I was heart-broken

Vomiting memories

Because I'd promised her everything

Then I did what I could not to recognise anything

So, here I was

Marching the town like a priest in my rapture

Muttering spells

So desperate for tenderness

So raw from the grating of senses

The way the day drinks every drop of my strength

It's relentless

I was digging out pence for a length of bad whisky

Me and my friends

Or at least

The others who slumped at the bar without peace

They embrace me as kindred, but

Something is missing

So, I was sat there at the bar with my forehead on my wrist

Thinking I had given all I had in me to give

When I saw her

Cross the floor like a firework exploding in slow motion

She touched me on the shoulder

And I started to live

But I wasn't ready yet

I wanted sucker punch and numbness

The chase and the conquest of dating by numbers

The safety of keeping my distance and feeding

My hungers

She spoke of a truth that I could not confront

And she offered a peace

That my war didn't want

Because I liked being fangs and destruction

Suction and froth and dysfunction

I was dreaming

Talking too much with my friends in the evenings

I laughed very loud as if I was extremely happy

You should've seen me

Now, I knew she sensed a glory

I could feel it in the way that I was standing

Two feet taller, like I'd never been afraid

I didn't want her to know I wasn't everything she saw in me

We walked each other home

And didn't kiss

We walked each other home

And

【02.Keep Moving Don't Move】

[Verse 1]

Close the curtains, light the incense

Inhale the thick clouds with your eyes closed, your nose burns

On your knees in the corner of a strange woman's room

Her naked feet like tree roots in this undergrowth

Frankincense, Frankenstein, Francophile, Philistine

Frankly, we are killing time

Wake it, bring it back to life

Kneel, bathe in warm water

Your bodies dirt turns the bath-tub as grey as these walls

Notice, bathe at moonrise and sunrise

And when you switch off the telly

Wrap your head in clean towels

Curl up like a found thing

A dead insect collected

Between the pages of an old book written

In a language you can’t read

Now dry the inside of your elbows in painstaking ritual

Three times clockwise, three times anti-clockwise

Don't breathe in until there's no air left in your lungs

Keep moving, don’t move

Keep moving, don't move

[Refrain]

Seven point two billion humans

Seven point three billion humans

Seven point four billion humans

[Verse 2]

The rain falls like troops

Like troops, the rain falls

Open your coat in it, shiver and cough

Your skin's like a dead thing, dying

Your feet like pond weed, the rain falls like troops

Walk up the hill, post-pub trudge

Laugh to it, live to it

It's coming to pass, my country's coming apart

The whole thing's becoming such a bumbling

Open the front door, your key is an arrow

Now turn three times in the hallway

Peel off your clothes, socks last, socks last

Stand naked and push your twig fingers

Through the wet bracken that storms by your ears

Stand naked and shiver

Now dress in warm things that smell of your body

Lie in a cross on the rug, watched by the dog

Let his mild concern be comforting

As you stare at the bottom of the chair

Drink rum from a curved glass

That you stole from a place that you hated

Eat raw food standing up at the fridge

Stroke the phone screen with your thumb

Like a mother trying to wipe clean the face of her only child

That blemish, that black dot that will not come clean

The first sign of the plague

Absorb the ache of all your friends

And sleep with the light in your brain burning UV all night

Wake tired, eat bread, eat oranges, eat bus stops

Eat traffic jams, eat shoes, eat shop windows

Eat the chair you're sitting on, eat the paperwork, eat the table

Eat the idea there was ever more than this

Eat the beer, eat the takeaway, eat the toothbrush

Eat the boredom, eat the breakup

Eat the phone she's hasn’t called

Eat her ringtone six times, six times

And when she answers, eat the scilence in your mouth

Eat the pillow, eat the blankets, eat the Moon

Eat the screaming drunks, eat the bad dreams, wake up

Eat the alarm, remember to chew

Are you doing this, too?

[Refrain]

Seven point four billion humans

Seven point five billion humans

Seven point six billion humans

[Verse 3]

Open your arms and their legs

And your teeth and their jeans

And your ribs and their eyes

And your skin and their brain

And push two lonelinesses together

And create more loneliness

Or create god and come inside each other

Walk through the city alone in a stupor of love

Create god, touch everything

Nod at strangers like a daffodil with a severed head

Your face is a trumpet, blow the futile brass part

Sit across your lover’s lap and scream into their mouth

Where's love?

Create god, but where’s love?

The last real pub in the south is surrounded by wankers

And they're coming in close with their cards out

So, let's link arms

Be prepared to go down with your ship, your ship's sunk

Be prepared to go down

Stick your hands out of the car on the motorway

Feel the wind pushing its face into your open palms

Keep moving, don’t move

Keep moving, don't move

Keep moving

【03.Brown Eyed Man】

[Verse 1]

Don't move a muscle, stay exactly where you are

They took my friend

They cuffed his wrists

They beat him in their van

He hadn't done a thing

But when they came, of course he ran

And they pursued and they were rude

And he said nothing

He bit his lip

'Cause if you speak, you'll feel their feet

But if you don't

You'll still get hit

[Refrain]

What's the matter with you

My lovely brown eyed man?

How come I can feel you shaking

When I take you by the hand?

What's the matter with you

My lovely brown eyed man?

How come I can feel you shaking?

[Verse 2]

They want me bad, now bad I'll be

They keep me poor

They make me sick

They feed me with desires for

Things that I don't need or want

Stick their needles in my arms

Expensive things I can't afford

They show me rooms furnished with gold

And then they close the doors

[Refrain]

What's the matter with you

My lovely brown eyed man?

How come I can feel you shaking

When I take you by the hand

What's the matter with you

My lovely brown eyed man?

How come I can feel you shaking?

[Verse 3]

I'm the child of the gimme-more nation

When they want something

They launch an occupation

They plunder and they pillage

They call it liberation

They're bombing and maiming

Stealing and taking

But they lock me up

And they paint me a demon

For trying to do right by my beautiful children

They're killing for money

They're crippling countries

They're just doing it all

Beneath the flag that says

Freedom

Now, what's the matter with you?

You're lying if you think

That my pain isn't your pain

Because when I'm hit, you flinch

[Refrain]

What's the matter with you

My lovely brown eyed man?

How come I can feel you shaking?

【04.Three Sided Coin】

Retell the old tales

Retail’s complete hell, we need some detail

That’s why I’ve been staring at the stem of this plant

For like the last day and a half, the last day and a half, the last

Now the three sided coin buys the bow legged calf

And we’ve been sucking out the milk

From its mother’s teat incessantly

So come on, pump us full of nothingness

And hear us sing the melody

And watch us dance the thin line

Between the in thing and integrity

Vacuum-packed, shrink-wrapped, wartime spam-bots

Following the stories of the day

In a hands-off, dandruff-in-your-sandwich kind of way

Infinite distraction

Now the distance between objects

Can be measured out in fractions

But the distance between people

Is a scale that we can’t balance

We’re frail, our hearts haven’t had time to try fathom

The scales of old dragons are nails in gold coffins

This island of England

Oh, England

We set out from this place

For murder and murder

And then we squared it away like it did not occur

Now when people are lost, they need people to join

But beware of the three-sided coin

And when people are hurt, they need people to blame

But beware of the fear you can't name

I take the bins out, it’s raining

The kids are on the pavement with their hoods up

Waiting for buses

And on the radio, someone’s complaining

Saying until now, they never discussed it in public

Same thing as yesterday

Careful with the hot tap, cold to burning in a second

Clothes on, stare in the mirror

Aware of the process of life slipping out of the eyes

Deodorize

Mentholated paste on the bristles

Scrub the enamel, now shoelace

Hands like somebody else’s

Where are the hands from before?

I was 10 years old once

Life got quiet last night

Station platform

Coffee from the man in the hut with the stutter

I see a friend from school, but we ignore one another

I flick through the papers instead

Aching legs, pounding head

I can’t wait for the weekend

I’m staying in bed

In the mouth of a breaking wave

In the mouth of a breaking storm

Shaken, thinking something is coming

The sky’s an unusual colour

The weather is doing unusual things

And our leaders aren’t even pretending not to be demons

So where is the good heart to go but inwards?

Why not lock all the doors and bolt all the windows?

All I am are my doubts and suspicions

I against you against we against them

This is how it begins

And this is how it will end

【05.I Trap You】

Love is a self-made thing

I am free

I stare at the air and I see patterns

And your name is a song in my chest

The taste is metallic

How many billions walk this planet?

I feel them, I feel them

You show me my mass

Love is an endless sky

An endless cliché that imagines itself to be deep revelation

An open face, n open palm, n open plain

All open

The more that we close it the less that we know it

And just ‘cause I know it

Don’t mean I know how to show it

They’re taking everything from us and telling us nothing is ours

But here we are, dancing

You make me a microscope

You make me a map

I called it "love," I should have called it "trap"

"I trap you," I should have said tenderly

At the end of a long day

While we kept each other desperately stagnant

"I trap you so much"

Yes, I want you to be happy, but don’t threaten my happiness

Can’t you see I’m walking this threadbare tightrope?

Made out of dental floss stitched together with strands of tobacco and dog hair

And it stretches between two precious fantasies

My fantasy of me and my fantasy of you

And beneath, in raging red chopped razor teeth states of fury

Are all my insecurities

And all the little lies I like to tell myself

And every other reason that I can’t see the truth

"I trap you so much!"

I should have whispered in your ear as we fell asleep

Bodies unbound, sheets soaked, hearts hammering

If I see it clear, will it stay clear?

Will it be clear when you’re here?

I don’t want fear, I don’t want greed

I want freedom, I want to be free

I want you to be free, I want to nourish

I don’t want to feed like some ravenous mouth

With no guts, only greed, endless appetite

Need, need, need

You can’t free me, I free me, I breathe

If I am in pieces, is it easier to see?

I think I am whole now

I think I am more whole

But I still check my phone 17 times a minute

To see if you called and I missed it

Trap

Love is a self-made thing

Love is a self-made trap

【06.All Humans Too Late】

But what’s to be done

When the only way to defend ourselves

From what we’ve created is to merge with it?

What can be done to stay human?

The racist is drunk on the train

The racist is drunk on the internet

The racist is drunk at my dinner table

Shouting his gun shots and killing us all

They still live

Those kind and their dead are still living

And yes, the anger is rising, the fury

The which side are you on?

The when will the guilty be called to account?

And what can we know of affection?

I walk in these graveyard days

And I watch how the pixels proclaim

What they sell to be health food

And we’re dead, all of me knows it

We should be preparing ourselves

We should be meeting the stages of death in our dreams

Noticing all that we sense in a fond way

Aware that the ears and the taste buds

Won’t work when the soul goes out

We should be down on our knees in the dirt

Dizzy in rocks, on coastlines, shivering

We should be fasting two days out of seven

Sleeping in shifts with the others who share our households

To make sure that, at all times, someone is up with the candle

Instead, we are online venting our outrage

Teaching the future that life is performance and vanity

Post a quick death threat

Drunk every evening

Sick from the radiated meat

Sucking on pork ribs and summoning pornography

So that we can cum when we fuck

Our partners don’t know us

Our families are strangers

Our friends make us nervous

There is a well in the pit of the city that we dance around

Sucking and slime-banked

WhatsApp group chat, beers in the sunshine

Behind the noise, you can feel it

The heat from this well

Our minds are racing into the dead

We hurl everything

Against the stop of the blank hand that muffles the mouth

But we can’t win

"I see how blind I’ve been," said all prophets, too late

All humans, too late

【07.Hold Your Own】

But, when time pulls lives apart

Hold your own

When everything is fluid, nothing can be known with any certainty

Hold your own

Hold it till you feel it there

As dark and dense and wet as earth

As vast and bright and sweet as air

When all there is is knowing that you feel what you are feeling

Hold your own

Ask your hands to know the things they hold

I know, the days are reeling past in such squealing blasts

But stop for breath and you will know it's yours

Swaying like an open door when storms are coming

Hold

Time is an onslaught, love is a mission

We work for vocations until, in remission

We wish we'd had patience and given more time to our children

Feel each decision that you make

Make it, hold it

Hold your own

Hold your lovers

Hold their hands

Hold their breasts in your hands like your hands were their bra

Hold their face in your palms like a prayer

Hold them all night, feel them hold back

Don't hold back

Hold your own

Every pain

Every grievance

Every stab of shame

Every day spent with a demon in your brain giving chase

Hold it

Know the wolves that hunt you

In time, they will be the dogs that bring your slippers

Love them right and you will feel them kiss you when they come to bite

Hot snouts digging out your cuddles with their bloody muzzles

Hold

Nothing you can buy will ever make you more whole

This whole thing thrives on us feeling always incomplete

And it is why we will search for happiness in whatever thing it is we crave in the moment

And it is why we can never really find it there

It is why you will sit there with the lover that you fought for

In the car you sweated years to buy

Wearing the ring you dreamed of all your life

And some part of you will still be unsure that this is what you really want

Stop craving

Hold your own

But if you're satisfied with where you're at, with who you are

You won't need to buy new make-up or new outfits or new pots and pans

To cook new exciting recipes for new exciting people

To make yourself feel like the new exciting person you think you're supposed to be

Happiness, the brand, is not happiness

We are smarter than they think we are

They take us all for idiots, but that's their problem

When we behave like idiots, it becomes our problem

So, hold your own

Breathe deep on a freezing beach

Taste the salt of friendship

Notice the movement of a stranger

Hold your own

And let it be

Catching

【08.Lessons】

[Verse 1]

I see the truth

Even here, in the lies of the city

It comes for me with its hands out

When I can handle it the least

When the madness has consumed me

And I’ve mistaken it for my nature

And I have given myself over to the things that leave me weak

Each day I wake with the fury to change things

But with each hour that passes, that fury subsides

I’ve cramped myself in to such tight little boxes

I hope that I live, but I’m not sure this is life

[Refrain]

I've seen the lions turn to cubs

And I've seen the hunters turn to prey

The lessons will come again tomorrow

If they're not learned today

I have seen the lions turn to cubs

And I have seen the hunters turn to prey

The lessons will come again tomorrow

If they're not learned today

[Verse 2]

All things are singing, life is a chorus

It all gets so deafening sometimes

Exhausted, my ears have grown numb

To the song in all things

But sunlight on water

Kissing at the bus stop in the rain

Or the wind through my fingers when I raise my palms in the dark

It sings to the parts that are still wild, still untamed

I thought I’d learned my lesson once

I learned it till it thumped my head to numbness

Yearning it would let me rest

And then I learned it more, I learned it again

And then, just when I thought I had it done

I found myself mid-mistake, realizing I’d not yet begun

[Refrain]

I have seen the lions turn to cubs

I have seen the hunters turn to prey

Our lessons will come again tomorrow

If they’re not learned today

I've seen the lions turn to cubs

And I have seen the hunters turn to prey

The lessons will come again tomorrow

Cause they weren’t learnt today

[Verse 3]

You would think that over time

Our lessons would be learned

But time and time again, we find

Our lessons have returned

And even though we've sworn repent

And promised no repeat

We find ourselves back here again

With the same old ragged drum to beat

Saying, how many times must we be shown

The outcome of the pattern?

How many times must we be shown

The outcome of the pattern?

【09.Firesmoke】

[Verse 1]

My visionary is a vision

I watch her dancing by the window

And it rips my flesh to ribbons

And the whole world is just ripples

In the middle distance

I listen to her hips

I push my kisses to her lips

We move like we were born to move

The night is teeth and pistons

And there is something in this tenderness that makes me want to live

Firesmoke

[Chorus 1]

Her mouth sets free this captive

Come close to me

Free me

Let me untangle the madness that knots you

I drop to my knees and crawl across you

I tell you I've got you

It's firesmoke

[Verse 2]

So go on, give me three days of your body and mine

Time is a blind eye and I see your mind in my mind's eye

You make me immortal

You take me to space

You are a planet

A place I've not known

Your body is home to rare gods

I kneel at their temple

I'm blown to bits, gentle, ferocious

We are open

Explosives have nothing compared to these sparks

So let's fall apart

And then lie with me, breathing in the den of the dark

It's firesmoke

[Chorus 2]

Your mouth sets free this captive

Come close to me

Free me

Untangle the madness that knots me

You drop to your knees, you crawl across me

You lick your lips softly

It’s firesmoke

[Verse 3]

The fire rises between us

And makes us get on the wrong trains

Walk the wrong way

Makes strangers smile greetings on Lewisham way

I bathe in this fire

It warms without burning

Compels without force

And it turns without turning the world

So, please, you keep your purpose

Your poise and your journey

I'll be by the fire

Thinking, nothing I've learned can prepare me

For everything else that needs learning

Is this how it feels to feel certain?

'Cause for so many years my love's been a burden

But now comes this fire to cleanse and restore us

To fuel us and calm us and push us both forwards, forwards

【10.Holy Elixir】

[Verse 1]

I touch the beginning

Animating animals and tree Gods

Scratching out legends in cave walls

The days pour down into nights as we watched

We mapped stars with peaks, we fought beasts

We caught food for the feast

And we walked to a breast to receive the bound wheat

The grass, black and strange

As we razed plains to ash

We laid claims, exchanged grains, and made pacts

And we clashed, and we strained, and the rains lashed

The young maids were brave, but they were made to lay flat

The old ways were too ingrained to make the reins snap

We laid traps

We gave our names back to the Saints

We sang out thanks and complaints

We burned fat, arranged bones into flames

Each bird a great catch

Our songs were spells, and our spells were plain facts

[Verse 2]

She laid down in the road where the people go by

And declared herself willing to try

I laid down beside her

But all I could see were the feet as they walked over me

That's when she told me, "I was holy elixir"

She said "I thought I knew the world, but it was only a picture"

She said "We’re all written in the holiest scripture

It's just we're living in this time that says no inhibitions

Get yours, keep going the distance, no limits

And don’t bother protesting because nobody listens

Besides, all your solutions dissolve under scrutiny

And you can't stand a note of derision

Instead, seek approval to justify your existence

Have opinions, but have no resolve or conviction

Just keep your head down

Breathe the fumes and indulge your addictions

Routine is healthy, ignore the affliction

The cost to the soul and the constant constriction

Don't consider too closely, have no intermission

Keep throwing your fists in slow repetition

Most of us manage, what makes you so different?

Now, you seem a bright spark

Go ahead, take the road with the pilgrims

Head for the temples of democracy

Freedom, growth, reason, liberty, hope

But don't pay attention to what's hanging from the rope"

She said, "Decode the language, unfold the symbols

I'm told disciples got lost in the hillside

Following intellect, they let go of wisdom

And now they'll tell you the soul's a closed system

They sacrificed instinct to phony ambition

And now what they hold in their fist has become all that there is

But total existence needs meaning and myth

Many misjudged the way and got lost in the mist

Your loneliness is the symptom, not the sickness"

[Verse 3]

The moment her lips said "peace," my peace melted

I became a memory, I felt myself peel

I was atoms, Magnesium, Calcium

I was real

She said, "We are born of collision

We are divisions of a bigger vision

And yet, we run around like hamsters

Spinning the wheel

Spinning the wheel

Spinning the wheel"

[Verse 4]

I was on my knees then, begging for pardon

I was old and clothed in white garments

In a vast red desert where the rocks were dark blue and varnished

And a voice said, "This is the garden

Now you better start sowing or there won’t be a harvest"

[Verse 5]

I came to under a domed roof

The light was cold and clear and fragmented

There was people, moving, I watched them

I saw a muscle of school girls performing

I saw the ticket woman massaging the small of her back

And a young gent, neat as a crease in his work clothes

And the light, light as breath on the dirty, old track

【11.People's Faces】

[Verse 1]

It’s coming to pass, my countries coming apart

The whole thing’s becoming such a bumbling farce

Was that a pivotal historical moment we just went stumbling past?

Well, here we are, dancing in the rumbling dark

So come a little closer, give me something to grasp

Give me your beautiful, crumbling heart

Another disaster, catharsis

Another half-discarded mirage

Another mask slips

I face off with the physical

My head’s ringing from the love of the stars

There is too much pretense here

Too much depends on the fragile wages

And extortionate rents here

We’re working every dread day that is given us

Feeling like the person people meet really isn’t us

Like we’re gonna buckle underneath the trouble

Like any minute now, the struggle’s going to finish us

And then we smile at all our friends

[Refrain]

It’s hard, we got our heads down and our hackles up

Our backs against the wall, I can feel you aching

None of this was written in stone

There is nothing we’re forbidden to know

And I can feel things changing

Even when I’m weak and I’m breaking

I’ll stand weeping at the train station

‘Cause I can see your faces

There is so much peace to be found in people’s faces

[Verse 2]

I saw it roaring

I felt it clawing at my clothes like a grieving friend

It said there are no new beginnings

Until everybody sees that the old ways need to end

But it’s hard to accept that we’re all one and the same flesh

Given the rampant divisions between oppressor and oppressed

But we are, though

More empathy, less greed, more respect

All I’ve got to say has already been said

I mean, you heard it from yourself

When you were lying in your bed and couldn’t sleep

Thinking, "Couldn’t we be doing this differently?"

I’m listening to every little whisper in the distance singing hymns

And I can, I can feel things changing

[Refrain]

But it’s so hard, we got our heads down and our hackles up

Our backs against the wall, I can feel your heart racing

None of this was written in stone

The currents fast, but the river moves slow

And I can feel things changing

Even when I’m weak and I’m breakin'

I stand weeping at the train station

‘Cause I can see your faces

There is so much peace to be found in people’s faces

[Verse 3]

It’s not enough

To imagine we’ll be happy when we’ve got enough stuff

All this stuff is blocking us

I’m neat with no chaser

I’m all spirit, but I’m sinking

'Cause the days are not days but strange symptoms

And this age is our age

But our age is rage sinking to beige

And yes, our children are brave

But their mission is vague

Now I don’t have the answers

But there are still things to say

I stare out at my city on another difficult day

And I scream inwardly, "When will this change?"

I’m beginning to fade

But my sanity’s saved ‘cause I can see your faces

My sanity’s saved ‘cause I can see your faces

[Refrain]

It’s hard, we got our heads down and our hackles up

Our backs against the wall, I can feel your heart racing

None of this was written in stone

The current’s fast but the river moves slow

And I can feel things changing

Even when I’m weak and I’m breaking

I stand weeping at the train station

‘Cause I can see your faces

I love people’s faces