I fell asleep surrounded by words
My pillow bursting with the wings of birds
When I awoke they had all taken flight
Like so many dreams that turn in the night
They were lost to the light
I knew a man with a devilish laugh
Like rolling stock on a railroad track
That hacking cough was the cancers bite
Like so many flames that burn too bright
He was lost to the light
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Greewich Meantime is mean to me
I mean time is too fast to see
Many seasons, many loves
As if your love was not enough
From southern breeze to northern snow
there’s a line that I must toe
Other girls fall in between
To tempt me from this path serene
From the legions who are marching on the road which never ends
There are some of us who stray off to the side
Down the road which forks and bends
In the name of independence, in the name of other truths
Abandoning the temples and the shrines
In the name of our youth
A pointed remark that gets under your skin like a splinter
Can work through the veins and permanently lodge in the brain
I wouldn’t want something I said, to hurt you and mess up your head
And so just for you I have written this song without words
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The drizzle that dampens every crevice
The grime that soils each dream
This nation that’s forged its own shackles
The red brick that’s swallowed the green
It’s no place for one of such beauty
The poison will soon reach your heart
They’ll scuffle your shine ’til it’s blackenned
Come take your chances with me
The one who soothes your ego when you’re not feeling yourself
Is tugging on your conscience when you’re feeling someone else
You may say that she’s beneath you when you’re feeling ten feet tall
But the one you treat like dirt is there to catch you when you fall
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My sparkle having ochred, dried brittle and vanished underfoot
I hide beneath the eiderdown stirring only to fan the embers of the soot
Saying said and doing done
Now is the silence and I hide beneath the snow
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I never said a word
Not even under my breath
I didn’t even think it
I don’t know what you’ve heard
I know the rumours abound
The wind spreads them around
But I swear I’m not cheating
I wouldn’t even know how
To abate your suspicions know
You won’t know if it’s bait ’til they reel in the line
And at the end of the day
Do you want to believe what I say
Or do you just want to sing a song of goodbye
The valentines we send each other
Year on year are just a cover
Witness to an ever-growing fear
That Cupid who we fed and flourished
Will fall to earth now undernourished
And love’s young dream will fade and disappear
When words we want to hear
Are not enough to keep us near
When we tear the jagged arrows from our hearts
There are those with hearts so large
You can enter without knocking
There are those with hearts so large
That you only see the half
There are those with hearts so frail
It could shatter with a touch
There are those with hearts too frail
to live like you and I
With flowers in their eyes
The eyes that bloom with fear
For fear they’ll miss the hour
That leads them to their dreams
