- A Boy Called Haunts
Anna against the light
Dance through a different night
Oh, how you laughed at nothing
Anna against the sheets
Dream that you're still asleep
Oh, how I let you down
- A Song For My Mother, The Whale
Where’s your baobab, way up high?
(Dancing in the branches under moonbeam skies)
Where’s your father, drowned in gin?
(Clogging up the pores where the snails crawled in)
Where’s your cormorant, on the sky?
(Falling to the forest when its batteries died)
Where’s your mother, far away?
- Celebration
It was the morning of the May celebrations, your heart collapse
And you took its weary arms up to the rocky peaks
(Oh no dont look for me I’m gone)
And as they crowned her the summer’s new love and searched for her Mother
I caught your silhouette falling down to the beach
(Oh no don’t look for me I’m…)
And though I’m tried I’ll be alright and you will talk me down
I know I tried to climb inside this monster’s open mouth
- Christmas Lions
Open the lens, our daughter lies undead
You were outside watching them train christmas lions for me
Babies and blood fell from my guts, my my
Gently I glide over a grave, then you pull me back again
My heart is all smashed up, how is yours not?
Are you waiting for another?
Sweeping these tears all up, into your tea cups
Are you waiting for another?
- Fight Fight With Fight
The loneliness seeps in the car
The same one that’s in her eyes
As she sucks on a cigarette you left her
Back when venus fly traps lined her floor
She’s no spider but it might make a nice metaphor
He clumsily opens his mouth
And slurs what he tumbles out
- If I'd Had Antlers
So some island sinks out across from me
A new one rose from between your knees
And on its shores sat a boy and girl
Their chords all tangled into the sea
She was the dancehall that ran from you
He was the boy that slipped out of view
While we sleep soundly the time will sag
- Return To Danger Castle
Anemone, don’t you dry out on me
In the sea, I waited but death woke me
While the world is asleep
I can swim through the city streets
Anemone, your tears get louder still
I can feel, your heartbeat beneath my fins
Anemone, dont you dry out on me
Like before I was born
- Speckled Eggs For Speckled Lovers
Speckled eggs for speckled lovers
Laid between the legs of others
Dancing into darkness in your room
Where whales wait beneath the ground
With bated breath and furrowed brows
They're constantly collecting all our thoughts
To be printed in a book which no one bought
Better lives for better liars
- Sweet Drunk Everyone
Eyes open to woes
The cawing of kids like ghosts
Creeps over me
The fingers through hair
The trickle of tiny tears
The cracks in our speech
And there in your room
- The Projectionist
The projectionist sleeps
In the stalls underneath the seats
Where the folks left over an hour ago
Snowy footprints in the streets
Maybe in his dreams
She appears all covered in trees
And he pushes his way through her branches
And he sings out loud in his sleep
- The Seaweed Brother
You were the first one to the reservoir
Now you’re the first one to the lake
The way the water wrapped its waves around your wrists
And we became a whale
Now lying beached in someone’s bed
I was your brother wrapped in photographs
Now filling boxes in the loft
The dusty breath that hangs like death around our necks