Friday 27 November 2009

A Photograph We Didn’t Take


I recall
Winters that passed
Like a blade of grass
Flowing with the autumn wind.

The smile on my face
Your hair in the wind
Out of place
The patience of elders wearing thin.

All my names
And all her letters
People with umbrellas
Can't embrace the weather

But poets always make mistakes
and muses never hesitate
We crawl back in
Run for shelter.

And in our eyes
The faces we meet
Down the street
Names they will never know.

No one will see
the ground beneath our feet
Places where we used to go.

Monday 2 November 2009

On The Run


(Verse 1)
Come, lets burn this house down
It speaks to me no more
Let's travel to a different place
We haven't been before
(Pre-chorus)
And we could change our names
We could look the same
And we can eat all day
On the trees where we'd lay

(Chorus)
But time, time...will you let me be?
Time, time...can I please be free?

(Verse 2)
You hide from the sun
When the day has just begun
And when the sun goes down
You're nowhere to be found

(Pre-chorus)
And we could change our names
We could look the same
And we can eat all day
On the tree where we'd lay

(Chorus)
But time, time...will you let me be?
Time, time...can I please be free?

(Verse 3)
Yes we are on the run
To call a place our own
And when we're almost done
We won't be alone.

(Repeat pre-chorus and chorus)

(End)