- Bent Strings
Soak up all the strain and cast out all your old complaints. She didn't work this hard to give up and let death stake a claim. 20 years, 1 month and 27 days. Is this all she gets? A striking realisation that the cross she had to bear wasn't half as heavy as the burden that now hangs around her neck. I won’t miss this when it's gone. What is there to say? Another fumbled consolation cuts the air but seems to fail in every way. You can't sum up in two lines the cost to a mother that outlives her child, so why bother. A solemn promise that times a great healer, from someone that could never understand quite how much that she needs her. I guess it takes less time to formulate the answers to all the questions why than it does to understand them. I'm not talking about experts, medicine or science, there's folly in believing these things will ever satisfy her when memories of a body strapped with wires leaves her lost. I want to scream until my lungs bleed "I'm glad your son died on the cross", but i bite my lip and hold my tongue because everybody needs a safety net and i think she chose the right one.
- Clapton Pond
Clapton let out its last breath and eases to morning light, and our shattered voices echo and carry like sirens.
Tonight I'm leaning on every word that you've been saying and it's been holding me up all along.
All the sidesteps and the silences they would all be worth it in the end and every step we have taken wouldn't need to be doubled up again.
It's always like this, things they fall apart when we just can't let go.
I'm not looking for familiarity or routine, just a little consistency and for every problem, every mistake, every regret and every headache to leave it all behind somehow.
Paranoia and anxiety are not on my side, they never were.
- Eason Drive
Its 40 minutes down the road but we can make it if we run. 10 minutes later we were waiting outside with extra ticket stubs, but it was worth the sprint just to get in and shuffle to the front and i just sank in. When the city was ours we cycled everywhere in one night, sipping vodka from the bottle on the backstreets on your bike. The skyscrapers and endless miles all sank into the river and we all fell over. They were the moments we believed, don't turn the light out when you leave and even when theres holes in our pockets we'll sit on the bridge or get lost in a forest and talk about turning circles and coasting it in and how big the next hole you'll dig will be. I'll never look at phone boxes and bus stops the same again because of the midnight trips with milk and chocolate when we semi-vandalised them, but the endless hours I recovered from then, when I couldn't catch my breath, I'd do it all over again. You said "I'll pick you up at 8 and we'll go driving in my jeep and we'll go off road along the ridgeway until its too dark to see" and even though I got the middle seat and my head ricochet off the roof, I'd kill to be there now. And I wonder how differant things could have been. Where I else could I have been when new year chimed in while we were on the bus? Or when you put petrol in the diesel before an all night drive the beach? But I cant remember laughing as much as we did then.
- Foundations
"Is everybody coming undone?"
She asks me with a straight face
and sometimes its hard to tell the truth
when all I know is that we're all just trying to stay afloat
That's the way it is, that's just the way it is
It feels like I've got to get away
like there's got to be a better way
- Holloway Or Anywhere
If this whole thing should fall apart
you know I'll still be here
And the city may sleep sound tonight
but our hearts are pounding loud and clear
Yearning for that feeling
to know that we're not standing down
- Justines Housemate Lives In London
So I opened a can of worms all over the floor.
So now your floor moves like bath water baby,
But you're still no closer to knowing what I mean.
We're going round in circles, now we're right back to the start.
Well you can put your hand in my hand but it's not going to happen no, no.
No, no. No, no. No.
And I hate to have to say that everything's not fine and dandy,
- Still Sitting Tight
It's all I can do to pull myself together
but we just fall back in
Nothing ever changed and you just can't put a line under this
It’s so hard to start again
when you put so much in the first time but we just do it
and it's alright because we've got the boot packed up tonight
My fingers itch and my heart holds steady