00:42I came to, under a red moon
00:47Thirsty for water
00:49My eyes were like shovels in the soil of the sky
00:54Digging into the night to find solace
00:58Burying emptiness
01:01I was heartbroken
01:02Vomiting memories
01:04Because I'd promised her everything
01:07Then I did what I could not to recognize
01:11Anything
01:12So here I was
01:16Marching the town like a priest in my rapture
01:19Muttering spells
01:20So desperate for tenderness
01:24So raw from the grating of senses
01:27The way the day drinks every drop of my strength
01:31It's relentless
01:34I was digging out pence
01:36For a length of bad whiskey
01:38Me and my friends
01:39Or at least
01:40The others who slumped at the bar without peace
01:45They embraced me as kindred
01:48But
01:48Something
01:49Is missing
01:52So I was sat there at the bar with my forehead on my wrist
01:57Thinking I had given all I had in me
02:01To give
02:02When I saw her
02:05Cross the floor like a firework
02:08Exploding in slow motion
02:11She touched me on the shoulder
02:14And I started
02:16To live
02:20But I wasn't ready yet
02:22I wanted sucker punch and numbness
02:25The chase and the conquest of dating
02:27By numbers
02:28The safety of keeping my distance
02:31And feeding
02:32My hungers
02:35She spoke of a truth
02:37That I could not confront
02:39And she offered a peace
02:42That my war
02:43Didn't want
02:46Because I liked being fangs and destruction
02:49Suction and froth
02:51And dysfunction
02:54I was dreaming
02:57Talking too much with my friends
03:00In the evenings
03:01I laughed very loud
03:02As if I was extremely happy
03:06You should have seen me
03:10Now I knew she sensed
03:12A glory
03:13I could feel it
03:15In the way that I was standing
03:17Two feet taller
03:18Like I'd never been
03:20Afraid
03:22I didn't want her to know
03:24I wasn't everything she saw in me
03:28We walked each other home
03:31And didn't kiss
03:35We walked each other home
03:38Close the curtains
03:40Light the incense
03:42Inhale the thick clouds
03:45With your eyes closed
03:46Your nose burns
03:48On your knees
03:49In the corner of a strange woman's room
03:52Her naked feet
03:53Like tree roots
03:55In this undergrowth
03:56Frankincense
03:57Frankenstein
03:59Francophile
04:00Philistine
04:01Frankly we are killing time
04:03Wake it
04:04Bring it back
04:05To life
04:06Kneel
04:08Bathe in warm water
04:10Your body's dirt
04:12Turns to bathtub
04:14As grey
04:14As these walls
04:16Notice
04:18Bathe at moonrise
04:19And sunrise
04:20And when you switch off the telly
04:22Wrap your head in clean towels
04:25Curl up like a found thing
04:28A dead insect
04:30Collected between the pages
04:31Of an old book
04:32Written in a language
04:33You can't read
04:35Now dry the inside of your elbows
04:39In painstaking ritual
04:41Three times clockwise
04:43Three times anticlockwise
04:45Don't breathe in
04:47Until there's no air
04:49Left
04:50In your lungs
04:51Keep moving
04:53Don't move
04:55Keep moving
04:57Don't move
04:597.2
05:02Billion
05:03Humans
05:067.3
05:08Billion
05:10Humans
05:137.4
05:15Billion
05:17Humans
05:21The rain falls like troops
05:23Like troops
05:23The rain falls
05:24Open your coat in it
05:26Shiver and cough
05:27Your skin's like a dead thing
05:29Dying
05:30Your feet like pond weave
05:31The rain falls like troops
05:33Walk up the hill
05:34Post pub
05:35Trudge
05:36Laugh to it
05:37Live to it
05:38It's coming to pass
05:39My country's coming apart
05:41The whole thing's becoming such a bumbling
05:43Open the front door
05:45Your key
05:47Is an arrow
05:49Now turn three times in the hallway
05:52Peel off your clothes
05:54Socks last
05:56Socks last
05:57Stand naked
05:59And push your twig fingers
06:01Through the wet bracken
06:02That storms by your ears
06:04Stand naked
06:06And shiver
06:07Now dress in warm things
06:10That smell of your body
06:13Lie in a cross
06:15On the rug
06:16Watched by the dog
06:18Let his mild concern be comforting
06:20As you stare
06:22At the bottom
06:23Of the chair
06:25Drink rum
06:27From a curved glass
06:28That you stole
06:29From a place
06:29That you hated
06:30Eat raw food
06:32Standing up
06:32At the fridge
06:33Stroke the phone screen
06:35With your thumb
06:36Like a mother
06:37Trying to wipe clean
06:38The face of our only child
06:40That blemish
06:41That black dot
06:42That will not come clean
06:44The first sign
06:45Of the plague
06:47Absorb the ache
06:49Of all your friends
06:50And sleep with the light
06:52In your brain
06:53Burning UV all night
06:55Wake tired
06:56Eat bread
06:57Eat oranges
06:58Eat bus stops
07:00Eat traffic jams
07:01Eat shoes
07:02Eat shop windows
07:03Eat the chair you're sitting on
07:05Eat the paperwork
07:06Eat the table
07:07Eat the idea
07:08There was ever more than this
07:10Eat the beer
07:10Eat the takeaway
07:11Eat the toothbrush
07:12Eat the boredom
07:14Eat the breakup
07:14Eat the phone
07:15She hasn't called
07:16Eat her ringtone
07:17Six times
07:18Six times
07:19And when she answers
07:20Eat the silence
07:21In your mouth
07:22Eat the pillow
07:23Eat the blankets
07:24Eat the moon
07:25Eat the screaming drugs
07:26Eat the bad dreams
07:27Wake up
07:28Eat the alarm
07:29Remember to chew
07:31Are you doing this
07:32Too
07:357.4
07:37Billion
07:39Human
07:417.5
07:43Billion
07:44Humans
07:467.6
07:49Billion
07:50Humans
07:55Open your arms
07:57And their legs
07:59And their legs
07:59And your teeth
08:00And their genes
08:01And your ribs
08:03And their eyes
08:04And your skin
08:06And their brain
08:08And push two lonelinesses together
08:13And create more loneliness
08:18Or create God
08:21Or create God
08:22And come inside each other
08:25Walk through the city alone in a stupor of love
08:28Create God
08:29Touch everything
08:31Nod at strangers like a daffodil with a severed head
08:35Your face
08:36Your face is a trumpet
08:37Blow the futile brass part
08:41Sit across your lover's lap
08:44And scream into their mouth
08:47Where's love?
08:50Create God
08:51Create God
08:52But where's love?
08:56The last real pub in the south is surrounded by wankers
08:59And they're coming in close with their cards out
09:01So let's link arms
09:02Be prepared to go down with your ship
09:05Your ship sunk
09:06Be prepared to go down
09:09Stick your hands out of the car on the motorway
09:12Feel the wind pushing its face into your open palms
09:17Keep moving
09:18Don't move
09:20Keep moving
09:24Don't move
09:25Keep moving
09:27Don't movets
