Wilderness (2013)
THE UNRAVELLING KING
Caught in sleeps design
Mind wrapped in knifes
Panic dares me
Then stares me out
What if we don’t fight?
Would you fade from sight?
Would you crave me?
Would you move like me?
My time beats slowly
Would you fade from sight?
When our particles collide
When you breathe new life
In these lungs of mine
When the brain capsized
And the lungs revive
Would you breath new life
In these particles of mine
Particles collide
My heart stops fast
Would you save me or fade fast?
Caught in sleeps design
Mind wrapped in knifes
Panic dares me
Then stares me out
What if we don’t fight?
Would you fade from sight?
Would you crave me?
Would you move like me?
My time beats slowly
Would you fade from sight?
When our particles collide
When you breathe new life
In these lungs of mine
When the brain capsized
And the lungs revive
Would you breath new life
In these particles of mine
Particles collide
My heart stops fast
Would you save me or fade fast?
OUR WORLD RECEDES
Dress me up in poison then explode
Erase what makes you human then implode
I can’t rise up
You can’t sell love
Our world recedes in disbelief
All eyes on me
I’ll bow and leave
In washed up lifeboats I dream of somewhere called home
All dressed in poison and waiting for love to explode
Dance with clowns till all apologies
Pray your indiscretions roll off me
I can’t forget
I can’t rise up
Eyes stuck on the floor
YOUR HEART, YOUR WORDS, YOUR NERVES
Learn my lines
I’m always 19 and I barely last another day
The skies catch fire, I hover too close and burn until you look away
We’ll play our roles, my Lady Macbeth, accomplice with a lesser soul
Your heart, your words, your nerves distort
I can’t stop knowing this
In the fray I’ll map your contours and draw your conscience in sand
In this car crash I learnt to love less, I learnt your heartbeat distorts
Safe and sound
Pull me inside and hold on for another day
We’re out of time
The sun will rise soon and haunt us till we run away
I’m tied to you
I’m tied to this crash and I want to see another day
When you’re out of sight, you’re out of control
This wave will come and eat us whole
Your heart, your words, your nerves distort
THE MOON AND THE SHINE
Won’t you lie still?
Won’t you disarm, say “it’s alright”?
When you hold me down
The better you died, but it’s alright
To all of these new years days
To all of these lives unsaved
The battles inside
It only subsides when the day is drunk
If you drink enough to shatter this link then the day is done
Brave new eyes
Show me a world that’s right
I’ve got a lot to learn
I choose to inflict
I choose to revert
Bodies line up
The button says “self destruct”
We’ve got a lot to prove
I choose to deflect
I choose to ignore
The battles inside
It only subsides when the day is drunk
If you drink enough the bitterness hides
One day it might rise but its ok, its ok
Won’t you lie still?
Won’t you disarm, say “it’s alright”?
When you hold me down
The better you died, but it’s alright
To all of these new years days
To all of these lives unsaved
The battles inside
It only subsides when the day is drunk
If you drink enough to shatter this link then the day is done
Brave new eyes
Show me a world that’s right
I’ve got a lot to learn
I choose to inflict
I choose to revert
Bodies line up
The button says “self destruct”
We’ve got a lot to prove
I choose to deflect
I choose to ignore
The battles inside
It only subsides when the day is drunk
If you drink enough the bitterness hides
One day it might rise but its ok, its ok
BORDERS
Eyes roll back to a better day
A touch reacts now there now there’s no-one else for miles
Steer with hope and say, “there’s nothing I want more”
But this girl is broke
That’s the consequence I fear
Hide the slow ache
Plague my mind and rage a war
We’ll draw new lines just to cross and draw some more
My pet ghost turned our oxygen to smoke
You breathe, I choke
Pray these years will age us slow
Hide the slow ache
Hide so I won’t bleed
Eyes roll back to a better day
A touch reacts now there now there’s no-one else for miles
Steer with hope and say, “there’s nothing I want more”
But this girl is broke
That’s the consequence I fear
Hide the slow ache
Plague my mind and rage a war
We’ll draw new lines just to cross and draw some more
My pet ghost turned our oxygen to smoke
You breathe, I choke
Pray these years will age us slow
Hide the slow ache
Hide so I won’t bleed
TINY PIECES WILL ALWAYS REMAIN
Read me the story
The slow derail
You’re lost in the wreckage searching for air
Last time your gravity pulled me back to Earth
Tough afflictions evolve in drones
“You’ll end up like him”, I’m nothing like him
Let my delusions feed the grow
Always insane, always to blame
Last time your gravity
Pulled me back to earth
Tiny pieces will always remain
FIGHT FIRST
Won’t you build this wilderness in me?
Fight First
Watch your private universe delete
Won’t you build this wilderness in me?
I’m undone
WILDERNESS
When you’re always up then down
When your eyes turn black then frown
Now you’re not around to hold onto
Now you’re not alive to hold onto
You’re always the one that I like to call my home
You bend in shapes
In nightmares and daydreams
Where I save your life
In dressed up houses
You can build your own disease
You can bury your love in me
Now you run too fast to hold onto
Now it’s not enough to hold onto
You can steal the light to see
Please place your light on me
I pray these tides will leave you there
And dream of miles of empty air
When you’re always up then down
When your eyes turn black then frown
Now you’re not around to hold onto
Now you’re not alive to hold onto
You’re always the one that I like to call my home
You bend in shapes
In nightmares and daydreams
Where I save your life
In dressed up houses
You can build your own disease
You can bury your love in me
Now you run too fast to hold onto
Now it’s not enough to hold onto
You can steal the light to see
Please place your light on me
I pray these tides will leave you there
And dream of miles of empty air
As Our Blood Separates (2012)