Running on fumes

Late night running
low fuel lights
crashing through this life
the wind was pitching
the truth came out and
I felt your hand in min

We’re running on fumes
but we’re heading home
holding on
to make it through

Hear the radio crack
and how they called
two more districts down the line
but inside my head
I hear myself
scream our lies again

We’re running on fumes
but we’re heading home
holding on
to make it through

You’re asleep in the back
as we crossed
the Dead Tree Ridge
these breakwater ghosts
send us riding on
“till we loose all our fears

We’re running on fumes
but we’re heading home
holding on
to make it through

All of my life
with you
by my side
all the way back home

My fear

You’re always there
over my shoulder
holding me down
and when we travel 
you’ll make it rain

You’re my fear
my doubt and
my insecurity 
you, my friend
are the chain

Sometimes, you made me brave
as I ran from you
so, I guess after all
this friendship has something good

Now, it’s time to part
one last drink
but as I leave 
I swear that I
saw you smile 

Thank you
for making me strong
and goodbye 
my fear

Around this town

Under the smoke and in the rain
roam alone out on the streets
I can see in their eyes that they understand
what you see tonight is what you get

Around this town the fossiles rule again
across this town they cry my name
around this town you can really taste the fear
now, I’m done I’m through loosing

The SoMe warriors launch their drones for a dawn suicide
if only I could just bring some of the good
and leave the scarecrows I’ve come to know
in this town

Around this town the fossiles rule again
across this town their words still cut
around this town you can really taste the fear
now, I’m done I’m through loosing

They taught me how to hurt
So, tonight, I’ll come for you

Around this town the fossiles rule again
across this town their words still cut
around this town you can really taste the fear
now, I’m done I’m through loosing

Stare at the gun thinking of the mall
you should have loved me more
now you know how in this house only hate will grow
But I quit I’ll drop the gun and just fucking quit

Around this town the fossiles rule again
across this town they cry my name
around this town you can really taste the fear
now, I’m done I’m through I’m heading out

Holding on

Little town, hot night
the boys are out
it’s all right
she don’t care

Riding her longboard
just as loose
as the breeze
on her jeans

Out by the pier
in the dark
holding hands
and holding on

He lost his friend
late that week
left the house
hiding on a train

They take a box of wine
to the park
and then she says
“don’t look back”

We’re here
right now
take my hand
keep holding on

We’re here
in the dark
hold me tight
keep holding on

Kerosene

Now she walks my way
with a clack of heels
like the night’s been
soaked
in kerosene

but then, ignition
as we kiss
I feel free
and it felt real
and I heard her say

Live hard to detonate
be kerosene
when love falls hard
be kerosene

Big sky wrapped this world
as our hunger grew
old stars they burn and turn
over our bed

But time stood still
our beating hearts
proved them wrong
proved that we
always will

Like hard to detonate
be kerosene
when love falls hard
be kerosene

See his car pull up
in black and grey
as they’re taking off
hurt stays

Take a steel can
down the stairs
strike a match
and hang my head
then i heard her say

Live hard to detonate
be kerosene
when love falls hard
like kerosene

Sometime soon

Sometime soon as you walk alone
waiting for a flood to come rushing down so hard
downstream from pain calling in the blind up
from the water some faith might rise

But until then let me see you kick the pity and
cut away the pain

Sometime soon as you chase the past
through waves of sin so deep in your soul

I’ll lead you out swimming side by side
down the river
to our place

Until then let me see you kick the pity
and cut away the pain

You’ve got this let me see you loose the pity and burn this hellhole down burn this hellhole down

Sometime soon

I lied to a liar

I lied to a liar
but that didn’t make it right
twice the sin she cried
now I’m back out on the street
la sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre

Was my own parody
hollow as can be
another night, another fight
another fake living low
la sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre

La sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre 
la sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre 
la sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre 

Lost at last

Here they come
from the clean streets
of the north 
how they shine
with perfect
self taught consciousness

Dropping out of the city
feeling lost at last
looking for a place to crash
for young ones  
young ones

This real world
can send you crawling
on your way back home 
but eastern love
will save your soul
from northern self control

Dropping out of the city
feeling lost at last
looking for a place to crash
for young ones  
young ones

I’m feeling old now
wonder if I missed a turn
flying home
in the gate I see a kid with a boarding card

Dropping out of the city
feeling lost at last
looking for a place to land
for young ones  
young ones

To the left bank

On a southbound metro train you sat
with the boys from school
with a laptop with ideas so hard and so wild
your hand brushed my mind
and then we ran       

To the left bank     
under the bridges to our house
drink with me 
I’ll catch your dreams
on the left bank
with your equations and my song
here, we learned to think*

How Noel got that flat 
I’m not sure I wanna know
you wore my silver shirt 
over your wet, long hair
friends around our fireplace
as the war drags on

On the left bank     
under the bridges by our house 
drink with me 
I’ll catch your dreams
on the left bank
with your equations and my song
here, we learned to think

From the churches with some facts
out of the dark times to the light
to the left bank they kept coming
with the words that saved our souls

You dipped a madeleine
in your tea**
whispered something weird
that could be true
in the search for lost time**
on the boulevards

Of the left bank     
under the bridges by our house
drink with me 
I’ll catch your dreams
on the left bank
with your equations and my song
here, we learned to think

*) “Here, Paris learned to think” Saying about the left bank of Paris.

**) “In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel Proust

Heartbreak Bay

Alone on a rayless day
I hear the bells of St Julian
from your side of life
from your part  of town

We go out but it feels like fading out
cheap wine in the street lamp’s fake moonlight 
It’s so cold
as you turn away

From the right words 
in the wrong time
they fell so hard
our last round 
from bar to bar
as we drift to the shore
of Heartbreak Bay

Your breath softly in your sleep
the day is young and in the morning chill 
I kiss your sweet lips
as the moon rides high 
You say its all right
to ride it out
and that we’re back

It’s a new round
from soul to soul
as we cross the bridge
of Heartbreak Bay

Across the bridge
of Heartbreak Bay
across the bridge
of Heartbreak Bay

2021

I hear the sound of
marching feet *) 
in the streets of 
broken glass
the fascists and the
silent ones
they call delusion the truth
in the devil’s post

Like back in 1938
just like back in 1938

They hand you a jacket
and a vow to share the hate
faster than virus
lies spread and grow
like droplets in the air
we’re running out of oxygen
I can’t breathe **)

Now in 2021
here in 2021
Your mum and I drove down
to get our shots
the masks came off
saw her face in the sun 
we were there to live to tell
as this world moved again 
and then we had you

Back in 2021
back in 2021
there’s always light***)

Just like back in 2021
just like back in 2021
there’s always light

*) Street Fighting Man / The Rolling Stones

**) Georg Floyd

***) The hill we climb / Amanda Gorman