I can’t believe that you have gone
Can’t comprehend being here alone
Still see your face reflected in the sun.
One every bend in every road
I’m face to face with your vivid ghost
I see you in the pillar and the post.
I hope that you will never be
Away too far from here, from me
I hope that you will always see me, me
Me the one who you set free
Me the one who wants to be
With you, my friend, wherever you may be.
I can’t believe that you’re not here
Losing you – my only fear
Real, real, really near
But I will always hold you dear.
Sunday 21 August 2011
Mercury
Silver tears are falling from my eyes
Watched by your spies
Caused by your lies.
Mercury is running through my veins
Causing me pain
Caused by you, my friend.
Right through my bloodstream it goes
Killing my soul
Corroding my bones.
Into my heart I can feel
The mercury’s real
The poison ideal.
Into my head and my brain
Causing me pain
You’re not my friend.
Silver tears are falling now still
I know their will
They long to kill.
Watched by your spies
Caused by your lies.
Mercury is running through my veins
Causing me pain
Caused by you, my friend.
Right through my bloodstream it goes
Killing my soul
Corroding my bones.
Into my heart I can feel
The mercury’s real
The poison ideal.
Into my head and my brain
Causing me pain
You’re not my friend.
Silver tears are falling now still
I know their will
They long to kill.
Wash Me Away
Wash me away and when I’m clean
you can
Inject somebody else and make a brand
new man.
Take away my soul and put a new
one in.
You’ll make another being but I won’t
be him.
Change the way I act and play with how
I feel.
Make the man you wanted but he won’t
be real.
Wash me away and make a whole
new guy.
Do it if you dare and then watch
me die.
you can
Inject somebody else and make a brand
new man.
Take away my soul and put a new
one in.
You’ll make another being but I won’t
be him.
Change the way I act and play with how
I feel.
Make the man you wanted but he won’t
be real.
Wash me away and make a whole
new guy.
Do it if you dare and then watch
me die.
Lifeless
Fall into the water
River to the sea
Ocean to the island where
You’ll find what’s left of me.
Go on up the hillside
Go swiftly as you climb
In a cave there will be bones and
The bones, they will be mine.
Airwaves to the heavens
In heaven I shall sleep
My mind deserts the body as
I fall through waters deep.
Pale and white and ageing
My body lies there dead
My eyes are finally empty of
The things which ruled my head.
Ashes in the water
River to the sea
Floating off the island where
You found the last of me.
River to the sea
Ocean to the island where
You’ll find what’s left of me.
Go on up the hillside
Go swiftly as you climb
In a cave there will be bones and
The bones, they will be mine.
Airwaves to the heavens
In heaven I shall sleep
My mind deserts the body as
I fall through waters deep.
Pale and white and ageing
My body lies there dead
My eyes are finally empty of
The things which ruled my head.
Ashes in the water
River to the sea
Floating off the island where
You found the last of me.
Melodies
Acquiescent melodies are running through my brain
Melding, merging, melting, causing me great pain
Tunes that pull the heart strings driving me insane
And every time they stop they start up louder once again.
Lonely, listless, lost, the tunes inside my head
Sounds thump and batter and crash like a block of ten-ton lead
Dull and grey and full of sorrow, the melodies are dead
I wish that I could hear an optimistic tune instead.
Haunting, hating, howling, becoming discord in my mind
As a wall of tuneless noise pushes melody behind
Louder, ever louder, it makes my mind’s eye blind
And the “tune” bleeds on and on, cruel and unkind.
Orchestral swoops of agony leave my body cold
Drain my soul of energy and make my mind feel old
Crushing, painful, ugly, the tune is iron not gold
And the lyrics all mean nothing for there’s nothing to be told.
Melding, merging, melting, causing me great pain
Tunes that pull the heart strings driving me insane
And every time they stop they start up louder once again.
Lonely, listless, lost, the tunes inside my head
Sounds thump and batter and crash like a block of ten-ton lead
Dull and grey and full of sorrow, the melodies are dead
I wish that I could hear an optimistic tune instead.
Haunting, hating, howling, becoming discord in my mind
As a wall of tuneless noise pushes melody behind
Louder, ever louder, it makes my mind’s eye blind
And the “tune” bleeds on and on, cruel and unkind.
Orchestral swoops of agony leave my body cold
Drain my soul of energy and make my mind feel old
Crushing, painful, ugly, the tune is iron not gold
And the lyrics all mean nothing for there’s nothing to be told.
Old stuff found
Whilst trailing through my hard drive, I've found some old poems of mine - the next few posts today will be those poems, reproduced and unchanged or unedited. I'd guess these were written somewhere between 2001 and 2003, certainly no later. It's interesting to see that a lot of the themes returned in my later work - I guess my head has been full of this stuff for a long time.
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