The surgery took no time
I had it before Friday
A test in elocution
For better rhyming couplets

We'll all survive
To let it spill out
At the sermon

Earnest in intention
Crass in execution
Cigarettes and Prozac
Blinkering my vision

But if we'd have started years ago
Would we still be here today?
Am I sweeter than the innocence you took from me?
Am I a card to play, or throw away?

Away, somewhere

Lost at noughts and crosses
Downstairs clinking glasses
Let me through the window
Tell them nothing happened

But if we'd have started years ago
Would we still be here today?
As we tossed the coin it froze and crystallized
But we never took the picture
And if all this gets any more hard
And time starts standing still
Then I'll wave the wand of innocence
While you plead
And blow us all to hell
But until then...

Game match set and synchronise
Then part it, this hand set in turpentine
Imitate and angled to
Suffocate this indigence
Inherited from mouth to mouth sore
Kept clean and comfortable

Consequence
Never let
Me fall down
There's every
Chance I won't
Get back up

Like holding a mirror to the action
I kill and die
All dos and don'ts equals are opposites
I smile and cry

Fall backwards in space and time
I cower in corners minding mine
Get where water cannot
If you could use the space to grow now
You've no gleam or shine
So worn the rigour of a champion
Now you're faded with time

When giving birth makes you a murderer
And your love a crime
Are we but walking contradictions
While ever this ring still binds

Guns and spaceships
Open fire
Try to bring them down

Ran for miles
Now I'm stranded
The wrong side of this town

Braved monsoons in
Hot air balloons
Lived to spin the tale

Life's magnetic
Pulls us onward
Up towards the ground

If you think that you're alone
No-ones on your side
Count from ten to one
And open up your eyes

A sky of faces
None familiar
Awoke in A&E

Grainy footage
From dusty cameras
Show me where I've been

Through the village
Sleeping ghosts call
From my sister's stone

Without ever knowing
Love was showing
Me the way back home

Cutting through the clouds
A hundred miles an hour
So quickly we came down

And ran into the ground
Fortune in disguise...

Hey did you kick 'em off your turf
Did you show 'em who's the boss
Did you show them how

Hey did you lose another love
Wondering what the hell you've done
For fifty years

And oh, there's a lot that you don't know
That I can't make you hear what you need to

But it's your move, I can't do everything for you

Little piggy ran for miles
He knows it's easier to smile than it is to kick in your door
And if you ever earn that crown
Father Christmas comes to town
All the children will sing along

You've got the bullets and telephone calls
You've grown the kids from big to small
Now drive us all into the sun

We could be forever stranded
No intervention, I won't command it of you
I'll help you save your face

Cos it's your move, I can't do everything for you

Why are you singing in the kitchen?
Is it dinner time yet?