Lyrics-Eyeless In Gaza
<Drumming The Beating Heart>
Transcience Blues
closed and smiling
crimped at the corners
transient in flight
rain
splash at me
serves as a reminder
of real and vital life
softly you go
to transport far from gloom
fast not slow
the constant deluge
of stunning heartbeats
an impassioned face
laughing in the air
while still air
seem to shake
rain noises
soak into the bitter night
rain trickles
and gutter run
in speeding paths of pale light
water
saw through window muted
steamy liquid
rush and run
as silver falls in sliver
Ill Wind Blows
when everything's still
I can hear you
breathing sighing
looking for what is missing
tasting the air
air that you would much rather
kiss
and yr savouring it
what are you doing
ah simply its obstinacy
preventing you and me
from making sense
of whatever it is
whatever it is that clouds
shouting out aloud
One By One
as close as this
I found you crowd me
as I do
you
we are surrounded
one by one we fall
we fall to a pattern
that we would really
much rather not fashion
one by one
one by one
who are you?
you are secret
and I
the same
which is how I feel it ought to be
in all honesty
we can never touch completely
not completely
you and me
one by one
we realise
we are chasing a face in disguise
you and me
one by one
Picture The Day
picture the day
can you still remember
painting the pages
while pouring thunder
splashed in the window
and you wished for summer
chew on a pencil
with your thoughts boiling
think of her
and him
and yourself
spoiling
clutching the back of your neck
as its tearing
imagine
summer gold on your lips
tracing snakes
on friendly shoulders
making a face
when you think
you'll get older
you take giant steps
then you're off ground
under tables
play cats cradle
talk to each other
as if you're crazy
pacing your pace
to a single rhythm
standing in rings
with fingers linking
somebody calls you
but you
you're not listening
picture the day
Two
we look softly
as if say something
that we both require
hands poised with grace
trace of a smile
playing on a face
taking low looking into you
how can I know?.
what runs though you?
its absurd and impossible
there is no way to tell
we stand lonely
almost as far apart as a pearl
and its empty shell
what runs through me
what stands over me?
transparent unclear
murmering slyly
seeking to defy me
and what I hold dear?
whisper to me in small hours
so calm
and then tell me
that this holds no charm
no saving grace
or no satisfying
there's no clearing space
when there is no room to think
Veil Like Calm
Muttered curses
tattered remnants
dark endeavour on obscure
pleasure
cold indifference in calm decision
old with derision
the veil
of distrust
Dim and distant
dogged
persistence
determination
descrimination
approximation
delineation
scrambled
contempt
undecipherable blur
Pressing nerve ends
dash of
panic
avoid embarrassment
switch to mechanic
old reflexes mask the
erratic
biting your tongue
chewing on dismay
Throw A Shadow
throw a shadow
from clinging feelings
to linger no longer
set eyes to reeling
at the thought that will stay
drawing you near to it
to relish it then
hardly believing
a cry to your throat
shouting to tell you
only to run
with nothing to hold you
and not to reason
with the whys and wherefores
but
just to listen
as your blood is soaring
Pencil Sketch
Shrill noise sounding outside of windows
grating as thinking is thrown out of
hue
to paler straits where eyes so dim glow
only beckoning to what
glimmers through
at times smiling you are lit with feeling
stretching
hands for a moment
running to whistling lightened of care
scarlet flushed
grinning your glow falling
where your sorrow is dimming
At Arms Length
hesitant hand
simplistic
wondering the value
of taut lips pursed
in dispute
the frightened qualities
dormant in defence
and oh wary now
in caution
standing at arms length
holding at bay
anxious display
suspicious irritant
superceded
subdued
the staid reassurance
of plain day-to-day
and oh condemnation
admit only unreal
moving play
Lights of April
idly tracing a face with a finger
marking window frames
mouthing
in glassy eyed sharp recollection
a half forgotten name
linger
thinking sleepily
stretching upwards
quietly flickering flames fan the face
shadow on the hands
that damp the fire
thumbing a paperback
sleep pins yr eyelids back
words spill on the floor
after the sleepy night
awaken in half-light
browse a little more
running dancing
letters parade on paper
Before You Go
before you go
will you tell me
what you're thinking?
(if you can put a finger on
what is it that rushes thru you)
you don't even stop to pause
to get your breath lately
and it seems to me
that thats the cause of your see-sawing
outlook
you don't even stop to pause
you're driven to distraction
by a steadily
increasing
series of events
one straight after the other and
you don't even stop to pause
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