Friends, brothers, insignificant others
Repressed over-tested messes and stifled lovers
Depressed, didn't get the blessin, tossed the rest
Down the plug as you chug as much wine as you possibly could
Down the fine line between your trachea and your heartbeat-battered ribcage
Mid-page you stop to read back
This is when you freeze, and you bleed, but you see black
Blood, oozin from where we would
Normally have a gauze placed formally over the enormity of this wound by a PHD-posessin personnel member
Loomin out of white light and hard to remember
A very distant cousin
From a huge unmanageable incestuous family of misled red-painted dazed bleetin sheep
A seed that you sowed but you did not reap
And now you weep for all you did not keep?
Deep into each night that you did not sleep?
Rid not me of my freedom
Give not me thy disease and all your reasons to refuse the movin on of each season
I teach treason to your spiritually stunted offspring
For the real leaders of believers are not kings
They sit barefoot in the bog beneath the rain and watch their flocks sing
I could barely lift my gifted fingers to my wasteful wallet with all the time that your watch brings
Watch
Things
Get lost
In
The frost
So thin
That coats the immeasurable cost of your sin
With each agitated car horn honk I know an angel's lost its wings
And we've been washed away on a tide of big city life
Terraced houses, high-rise flats
Terrorist suspects and high-flyin twats
Fences, railings, stop signs, locks
Police, thieves, PVC windows
Parking attendants, prostitutes, Primark, yuppies,
Domestic violence, neglected puppies,
Greggs, Friday night puke on the stiletto-scuffed pavement
Self-absorbed miss-the-mark criss-crossin wavelengths
Oh my god, I don't know where the day went
Friends, brothers, significant others
Strand yourselves in lands of lovers
Not wives, not girls that get off with guys
But souls seen through translucent eyes caught in the light
Limbs entangled in the falling of night
Tastin the salt of tears on each other's lips
Healin hands on fruit-bearin hips
Foreheads leanin against each other
I'm sure it's there
I'm sworn to set sail
My small boat will be pushed forward by the gale
Come rain, come hail, I'm not afraid to fail
I'm not afraid to sink
Cause whichever way I get there
I'll be greeted by a rainbow, and washed in sun
No-one will know my name though
All they will know is my energy
As we heal by herbal remedies
No longer needin to hear the screech of hurtful threnodies
The Earth will be given all
In a world that nurtures no enemies

(Frozen in our sin
As we are thrown by winter winds
All we need is a place
To thaw our limbs)