Nailbiter

Carefully
Step between the cracks all the way down your street
Jump the fence and show up to your party
Demons in the moonlight trying to steal our dreams
I don’t think so

Feel the planet turn
The planet turn
The planet turn

Feel the feelings burn
The feelings burn
The feelings burn

Nail biter
Nail biter

Alone again
Sitting at a bus-stop smoking cigarettes
Wake you up to tell you i don’t feel it yet
See you in the next life or something i guess
I don’t think so

Feel the planet turn
The planet turn
The planet turn

Feel the feelings burn
The feelings burn
The feelings burn

In the dark cinema
On the giant screen
On the edge of your seat
Waiting for that scene
It’s the chemical rush
It’s the flame lighter
It’s the one true love
Of the nail biter
–


Stop Pretending

When you stop pretending
That you’re someone else
The lies you sold yourself

Hold you to ransom
And your burning dreams
The ones you told her

Of that haunted night
Before the virus came
And sunk the world
But this girl ain’t
No ordinary ghost

Anti-freeze blood
Ice fish
Ice fish

You said I’d be sorry
And I know how much you love it
When you’re right

But it’s not over
And I’m not the one
Who held the gun

And vanished with
A tiny roar
And blew a kiss
A meteor
But I guess you’re
No ordinary ghost

Trying to fit your heart
Inside my heart
Like jeans the bursting seams

You wore that night we met
Beside the bashful sea
You tore through me

And sent a crack that shot
Right through my icy brain
The wordless pain
The shadow of
An ordinary ghost

Anti Freeze blood
Ice fish
Ice fish
–

Ode to Lexapro

Ode to Lexapro
You’re the only one who gets me sometimes
Blitzed, tired and alone
Here in this long distance swim I can hear you

Calling me back to the shore in the night
Another party
Boys I’m just not feeling myself today

And the night is electric
Everyone’s in love
With the idea
Of falling in love

Jessica says
That I don’t belong
She says I like it
When you kiss me strong

Ode to Lexapro
I know she’s not good for me and I tried
I tried letting her go
But I just thought about it all the time

But I can’t get away with no cheap tricks tonight
But this high wall
The taller I build it the higher you climb

And the ghosts slip right through it
They come for me at dawn
To carry me back
To the Yami of Yawn

Jessica says
We’ll never belong
She says I like it
When you kiss me strong
—

F**k this Virus

Somewhere in the sea of lost time
Down where the pines sing
Like an animal
Scratching at the dirt
Sniffing out a memory

Meet me at the overgrown tennis court
Down by the train tracks
Chomping on the air
You say “Look at what I’ve done”
Holding your hands out

Digging through the years like hard clay
In the cold earth under the bed
With a rusty spade
Prick lying dormant
Oh don’t do this again

And soon
We’ll be taking a one way flight
To Babylon across the night
And by the light of the full moon

Hear the wind blow
Through the ruins
Of our honeymoon
Time to let go

Maybe when they let us outside
We’ll press delete everything
Clear the giant page
Fuck this virus
Love is a paper wing
Flapping into the sun
–

Living Ain’t Easy Son

In time I will go down
And make peace with the sea
But for now we are enemies
For she’s taken you from me

Oh in the night outside my window
I see the prickly stars
They are relentless in their beauty
And stinging at my heart

I cannot listen to the wind blow
Through the wicked trees tonight
Lord let me sleep and dream of nothing
For i cannot bare the sight

Of your eyes so wild
Little lights in the darkness
I’m under the waves
I’m sunken and loveless
My hope is away
Now i’m lost in the madness
Of your witchy ways
And this night that is endless

I guess I will wait
for your word on all this

But for now I’ll sit and drink with fools
So they can tell me something stupid like
Living ain’t easy son

I been howling at the moon
Like a little lost dog
I’ve been drinking in the morning
pretending nothing’s wrong

I have been writing on the wall babe
When i wake up from a dream
And then i study it all morning
But i don’t know what it means

Like i'll meet you by the shoreline
Of that never-ending sea
Oh time is just a theory
Hope is just a daydream

Of your eyes so wild
Little lights in the darkness
I’m under the waves
I’m sunken and loveless
My hope is away
Now i’m lost in the madness
Of your witchy ways
And this night that is endless

I guess I will wait
for your word on all this

But for now I’ll sit and drink with fools
So they can tell me something stupid like
Living ain’t easy son
—

Portugal

Portugal, I’m forever yours
Portugal, I’m forever yours

You drew first blood
Like a kiss from a gun

You’re better when you’re drunk
You said as you walked off

And it’s everybody’s fault
But my own

So much fun, but it’s over now
Don’t go out, there’s a plague on this town

This ain’t no song
It’s just dust in the wind
My shabby offering

Will you miss it when it’s gone
And it’s everybody’s fault
But my own

Portugal, I’m forever yours
Portugal, I’m forever yours

You drew first blood
You drew first blood
You drew first blood
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Shelter

I feel better when it rains at night
We can both cry sky
We can both be liars

It’s a long way back tonight
But I can love from afar
Like the moon on the horizon

One step closer
I’ll be your shelter
Say it all again
Sing it ‘til the end

There’s a little light glowing low
In your eyes in your eyes
I can still remember

Please glow little light of hope
We can steal that boat
We can head for the horizon

One step closer
I’ll be your shelter
Say it all again
Sing it ‘til the end

Babe, there’s someone knocking at the door
In my mind in my mind
Down the end of the corridor

Please glow little light of hope
In the night in the night
In the fuzzy wuzzy danger

One step closer
I’ll be your shelter
Say it all again
Sing it ‘til the end

Send a flare for you
Sing it ‘til it’s true

—

Big Mistake

What'd you do in the morning
When you realised she was gone
Killing time with a hologram
Was she ever really here at all

What'd you do when the planets fell
So neatly in a row
Was everything in its right place
But somehow still so wrong

I drove home
Drunk and stoned
Even though
Everyone said I was
Making a big mistake

What'd you do when the fire
Tore through your little town
Did you bolt down to the general store
And carry old Pete down

To the dam out in the gumtrees
Surrounded by the flames
Did your memories turn to ashes
As you waited for the rain

I drove home
Drunk and stoned
Even though
Everyone said I was
Making a big mistake

I woke in the middle
Of a bad dream, just a bad dream

I'm stuck in the riddle
Of a bad dream, just a bad dream

I came to find your mind
I knocked gently on the door
Nobody answered
But I heard voices I'm quite sure

Too many questions
To fit on a sticky note
Make love to the mystery
In front of everyone I know

I made a big mistake
I made a big mistake
–

Bedroom Ice Age


One day soon I’ll know myself
One day soon I’ll need your help
Mmm mmm mmm mmm


One day soon I’ll go outside
Leave this ice age in my mind
Shivering, shivering cold

Tiptoe down the corridor
Humming some forgotten tune

Wrap me in your midnight arms
And whisper one day soon

One day soon
Mmm mmm mmm

One day soon I’ll meet you there
Between midnight and nowhere

Forever never nowhere

In the night
In the night
In the bright dark night
There’s a seed
Of a thought
Of a way

From the night
From the night
From the bright dark night
Comes the day
Comes the day
Comes the day

Everyday
Everyday
Everyday

—

Stay Safe

Even when you know time’s speeding it feels slow
Scratching out the days in my wall ‘til I see ya

There’s a spider on the ceiling
Scurrying through my dreams
Whispering “see u soon”

I can see you walking moonlit towards me
I am waiting at the end of your street
Maybe when they let us outside again

I will come to you at night
And we can just walk around
But as if the morning knew
It wakes me
And it takes you
It wakes me
And it takes you

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