Lyrics

Domicile

It’s four AM in the winter
And you rise to break your back
Cause if you didn’t you might just die
And the children can’t fight back
We’re barely holding on
She says when you get home
You can’t believe it’s gone
You fight through every dawn

You’re standing all alone
And you feel that you can hold your own
But you better be quick and get your way
Before you have no home

And you’ve cashed in all your checks now
And you’ve nothing on which to fall back
The air chokes you anyway
The smoke will never go away
And you’re told not to care about that
Don’t think love is fading
But the system can break your spine
Don’t stop knowing that everything is fucked up
When you step out of line

A man cannot be naked
But the man will strip away
And leave you feeling so insignificant
When you give them all your days
I’ve lost all my patience
Let’s burn this fucker down
I’ve had this feeling that common sense
Will crash it to the ground

Missiles Through The Floor

Sun roused my eyes when you got home
Clean these thoughts and let me live in vain
I’m still and standing in the light
In the streets the soldiers break the game

Pick yourself up off the floor
They don’t need you for this war
Fall to earth now
And never again

Fade in with colors never seen
Wells become alive and fire rains
I’m home at last but I’m not there
For all the things I saw I am to blame

Sending missiles through the floor
Another casualty of war
Pray for unity
With all your life

Clowns

I saw the future and the clowns were wasting space
With every suture they are holding back our grace
Breathe the chemicals that flower in the street
And things that can be great are ashes at our feet

But still you feel the loss of heart
Poison thoughts for dreaming
Catch your wind and grab your gun
All becomes so fleeting

You have left a smear, sleep and you’ll arrive
Who was juggling and who gave up their life?
Snow came heavier then, of all the nights
I was standing there like I stood without right

Watersong

I’ve walked as far as I can
Through all my sorrow again
And you had that look in your eyes
Do you even know I’m alive?
I have forgotten my friends
Grey scars to leave or amend
Mourning comes out for a time
Sun burns like film in your mind

And no-one else will ever see
The distance that grows endlessly
I feel like my love has died
A beating drum, a soul to fight

Spirits don’t listen to me
I’ve been so shattered by beauty
If you took me home in the sun
I’d be so happy for once
But I’ll not return to that place
Time has made sand of my face
I’ll wash away with the waves
A drowned one that no-one can save

Days Alight

You’ve forgotten all your wisdom
You were on the side of good
Let’s go dancing in the graveyard
Carry with you what you should
You were driving to the ocean
Dropping bullets on the way
Clouds beyond your view were holding
To catch a look at what you made

And you will be the air
The shakes the trees, that keeps you sweet
Carried through the rush of life
The days roll in, the days alight

You were burdened with desire
Back and forth without a clue
Stained with grass, shot through with fire
I am nothing without you
You were passing out your daggers
Mounting revolutions true
All this hate adds up to nothing
I am nothing without you

In Absentia

We left our language so far away
Full of new syntax that made the journey
To where the simple facts could seep and grow
From our enemies that passed today

Careful like an ancient breath
I held you up
And though I felt that I was faking
And wonder-struck
And you were not around
And absence took me then
Despite all I had done

I saw that fear was just laughter dark
and heaven smiled and eased my worry
rise and greet her for tomorrow’s greater
I was waking and my heart just screamed

Weakness

I will never learn to embrace my weakness
I have no home and my options have run dry
There is no better world of faith and virtue
I’ll have a cigarette with my regret

But I know I can’t be felt
Deep inside I’m reaching out
I go crashing through your gates
Still to keep you wide awake

I have failed to keep you safe
I’m too high to hold it down
I squeeze these lines out and I never sleep
Losing hours and sneaking like a thief

Try as you might you won’t hold us down

Kierkegaard

The kids are all on steroids
And the water isn’t clean
‘The government is monstrous,’
Says the taxman with the green
When I was a senator
I spoke without reprieve
When I was a man of cloth
I could not be believed

But every now and then
I feel it in my bones
That there is nobody out there
But I do not feel alone
And if solitude is reason
Then identity is all
And it’s my own god that’s singing
I am drawn to my own call

Divinity I answer
With the force of sorrow’s wind
Existence comes with dancers
Throwing photos to fall in
Never did I doubt before
I felt the anger rise
I’ll bury sound and drown my book
Before I live a lie

Haste

Outside convenience marts
Out by the schoolyard where we used to play
With laughter running deep
For all that I can’t keep
When I have traveled near and far away

Where are you
When you’re with me
Change will come to you
When you are in need

Remembering with haste
These things you laid to waste
And parties that would echo into day
The moon stands like a ghost
The wanders down the road
That shakes your hand and tells you he’s gonna stay

Where I was hanging down
There’s no good side of town
So gather all you friends around the stereo
Like trees and concrete blocks
Our lives were building up
Theses shadows lead me back here to my weary home

Xmas

The snow just fell like bricks
Our hands were still and weary
The hatred I’ve absolved you of
Is so extraordinary

Our house was home to nothing
Black thought and hollow bones
What I would give for nothing
To bring you back and stop the snow

You destroyed us all
On Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve

Kamala

There you are, I’m listening
Showers silver down past the din
Cast your bright heart on everyone
I will keep you safe
Taste the night and hold your breathe
Lay your head on soft stones and rest
I can keep you feeling life
Coming back from light

Before I knew your sound
I would strain to listen
Melody is all (comes now)
Blessed is all you’ve given

Cold as night, I’ll carry fire
To burn the ghosts out of this desire
Let me in with lullabies
I will drown the day
Pieced together these dusty eyes
Sheltered me in from darkest nights
Cast your bright heart on me alone
I will keep you safe

Snow Eyes

Leave me fine, alone, I’m here
when it’s trite I won’t be near
for my selfless act I am hung
statue of desire come undone

Hanging in the air I breathe
It is coming back for me
And it steals from us
Hold on to trust

And the snow coats your eyes
Sing your hymns like battle cries
When I disappear come look for me
Block the shine and you will see

Elucidate

Shelter me stoically into the streets
No-one alive can replace what you mean
You’re wide awake presently but later you’ll sleep
With an ocean of mattresses to warm up your feet

I have decided to live for a while
“Living is labour, whatever,’ she smiles
While the dread just welled up inside of her eyes
I picked at the mud on my boots with a knife

When all lights are dark…

The snowfall with fleeting the wind broke my legs
I was packing my bags when I heard the parade
And the band broke in softly without an MC
And the storm cloud carried the notes to the sea

The good jokes have all punched out for the day
Put up a wall to keep them away
The church bells dance in your brain through the night
And a feeling is stuck in your back like a knife

When all lights are dark…

Rich men and poor kids and stealing your heads
While you count all the boxes and sort green from red
Your sisters have all brought their babies back home
And your brothers just wants you to pick up the phone
The girl with the blue eyes that echo your heart
Is tracing the toys that you let fall apart
Your words cannot say what apologies mean
And still unto you I awake from a dream

When all lights are dark…