Cotton and The Thread
Pass the cotton
Pass the thread
Tapestry tapping your pretty, pretty head
Pass the paint
Pass the brush
Stand there still, while I draw you in a rush
You don’t see what you do to me
The reeds and the weeds tangle my feet
But you are the pulse, I follow your beat
In the cytoplasm, asphyxiation
You feed me with your light, your rhythm
When you sleep I watch your chest
Watch you rise with the sun in the west
Copy your breathing rhythm so I can be more like you
Learn your lucid training so we can both sleep there too
In dreams we face an identical view.
Glendora
The kids on the corner
They’re learning the bad trends with their fingers raised to the skies
The homeless and hungry
They’re sure short of money but they keep praying for passers by
The modern and classy
They pretend to be trashy and it puts a grin to my face
I live with a lover
His eyes green my lover, I love when he sleeps at my place
O baby
Don’t sleep just yet
There are things I have left to tell you, yes.
O I could touch forever his islands and treasure
But I fear that one day this will end
I’m living too quickly says oh far too many
But aren’t they just moving too slow?
You say I’m the sun but to me you’re the one
And I dream that one day this won’t end
I always think of him
I pretty much love him, to me he’s the ultimate best
O Baby
Don’t sleep just yet
There are things I have left to tell you, yes.
I’ll stand behind the curtain
I’ll end with a closer
Here you are
Hear you are.
The Dog
You strike gold walking with your dog
Something in his mouth, you whip it out
It’s something soft
In the palm of your hand
Something from across the land, it’s your love
In his animal’s eyes, he’s telling you where to hide your love
How are things looking?
You strike gold walking with your dog
Something in his mouth, you whip it out
It’s something soft
In the palm of your hand
Something from across the land, it’s your love
In his animal’s eyes, he’s telling you where to hide your love
How are things looking?
You strike gold
Hummingbird
Hummingbird
You are set free
Flex your wings
And steal me away
He picked her last winter as one pulls out a splinter
Red eyed and tender he needed a mender
She stuck around like a weed in the ground
Raising her voice when given a choice
Never once unstood why he slept in a hood
Did he try to conceal the love that he’d feel
When she sang in her sleep or brushed passed his sweet heels
He never was one for finishing meals
And when he felt she was right at her tether he carried her down to the river
Told her blue is the colour of calm and that life is better when spent in her arms
So they made shapes with their limbs in the water
Imagined names they’d reserve for their daughter
Kaleidoscope pulse pounding palms on their backs
‘ Darling breathe in. Hold it there and relax ‘.
Much like a squid as she sank in her dress
Reeds rip the frills on her sweet Sunday Best
And tie latches on to Old Goodness’ anchor
And he now regrets dressing smart and fancy like a banker
And as shells act as lids on their eyes
Algae like clouds does commence in its rise
In clear blue spheres he is trying to pray
Hoping the dove, well she will not fly away
‘ Clasp my hand tight,
we will survive the night
and if the blue it drowns you,
Well i’ll be right behind you ‘.
Hummingbird
You are set free
Flex your wings
And steal me away
Memory Box
There’s so much time for holding hands
When you’re sleeping with your man in the ground
So while we’re awake let’s keep talking
While we’re awake we’re sleepwalking
The longer I wait the more I learn about you
There’s so much time for lying around
When you’re sleeping with your man in the ground
So while we’re let’s keep singing
While we’re awake keep the telephone ringing
The longer I wait the more I learn about you
The magic that is you
Like how there’s a memory box above your Mother’s bed
Inside she wrote the first words that you ever said
I’ve got my whole life
You’re in my time line
Smoking on balconies, have a fine time
You’re not a sick and dying whale
This is the start of our tale
Woman
The ring around the moon last night
Was caused by the refraction of moon light
From the crystals of silver, crunchy ice
I thought I’d call to say I think you’re nice
Somethings are better sung than said
I’d like to walk around in your beautiful head
To dangle solar systems above your wicker bed
All I am is a woman
The web across your eyes last night
Was spun by the sandman’s surprise
When I dreamt, I dreamt I kissed you between the eyes
When I awoke, I had been blinded by your light
Somethings are better sung than said
I’d like to walk around in your magical head
To dangle photographs above your wicker bed
You started out in a woman
Became a man in a woman
All I am is a woman
When I am looking at the moon I am blinded by your light.
The Asteroids Collide
Your eye lashes they act as cloaks for your telescope eyes
Your ears they point skyward,
Transmitting mockingbird’s call to the skies
With the shudder of your boots,
Moon dust reach the roots of the neighbourhood’s favourite tree
Be friends with me
The Asteroids Collide
The feelings liquidise
You’re safe
You’re scared
The weight that you haul
Leaves cracks in the wall
You’re safe
You’re scared
You’re enclosed and in love
Your little white dove
She flutters and mutters your name
According to accordian
Your outspoken loudspeaker shines
Hyacinths hypnotise
Your black hair is pushed back
Thin skin is does lack any colour or trace of the sun ray’s race
The television’s flickering
The frequency you’re giving off is a powerful thing
Tell me why does love fly in, fly out when you’re barely looking?
I swear I was not, I was not looking
The Asteroids Collide
The feelings liquidise
You’re safe
You’re scared
The weight that you haul
Leaves cracks in the wall
You’re safe
You’re scared
You’re enclosed and in love
Your little white dove
She flutters and mutters your name
Tell me why does love fly in, fly out when you’re barely looking?
I was not looking
The anchor clanks
Your heart sank
Your body locks
Your ship it has docked
New life has find the island
And you’re stuck
On the island
Constellations
You’re very pretty you know
You’re very rare you know
I’m very clumsy you heard
But I’m a special kind of bird
You’re lovely
Yes you are
You’re very different you know
You’re very magical you know
You’d melt me if I were snow
My heart, I’d have baby to sew
To sew
If your body is the sky then your freckles are the constellations
Your Mother loves you you know
She loves you more than the moon
Your separation won’t be for long
But it will be coming for you, far too soon
She loves you yes she does
She loves you yes she does
Hell, I’m in love with you
And it’s true
My branches they turn to you
Asking you, do you love me too?
Ribbon Lakes
Let’s go fishing
Take me to the ribbon lakes
Do not cover your love
If the brother you love
Colours your slate
How did you find me?
I don’t want to know
I do not wanna know
How did you fine me?
He’s does not want to know
It’s not for them to know
Keep your heart in line
It is better to keep it all inside
If you care for your man then do it
If you care for your man then do it
If you care for your man then conceal the way that you feel
‘Cause once it’s known
Then it shows and the joy that glows slows down
And it’ll spread through town.
Over the Hill
Once we get over the hill
We’ll find a library
I like the bird books best but you can choose from a variety
And if you shake the book really fierce,
Out will fly a note from me
I know we’ll get there eventually but I’m English so bear with me
I love you
O i love you
We feed ducks in the local park and eat ice cream, get all jittery
Not from the sugar in the dessert itself but from what you do to me
I want us to be sewn together on a detailed embroidery
So the distance and the water between us won’t keep you away from me
I love you
O I love you
Well all the rivers, oceans and lakes try to wash you on a shore faraway
And all the miles and the months that we wait, I’ve packed my suitcase
I’m here to stay
O i will walk across vast miles of sand to keep wrapped up in your hands
It’s just a shame that from the very beginning you’ve always been her man
I love you
O I love you
It’s just a shame that from the very beginning you’ve always been her man.
The Horse
I was told that kite flying’s for lovers
I was told that we can’t share the covers
If you’d like me to, I’ll try to be brave like you
I know you’d like me to, I’ll try to be pretty too
I was told that you rest with another
Weren’t you told son, that that’s wrong by your mother?
If you’d like me to, I’ll try to be brave like you
I know you’d like me to, I’ll try to be pretty too
If what you mean’s so true, why let invertebrates cling to you?
If what you hold loves you, why’re you watching the horse pass you?
The horse.
I was told that kite flying’s for lovers.
Magic Weather
On the highest shelf, where you’ll find she
hiding ‘neath the nouns and verbs and similes
Find a wooden step, place it carefully
Lodge it between the couplets and apostrophes
Blindfold your brain, feel your way for me
In reaching out she’s giving far too much to thee
A letter for each limb, a rhyme for every time
His brain guides she to poetry, read it down the line
Behind my creaking ledger, ink stains record the weather
Following her twists and turns like a feather
So long as I hold her and sleep with an umbrella
The freedom’s there, I can depend on Magic Weather
