That horizon just keeps on moving

Hey scientist
Take a step back
Stop thinking and engage your brain
Some things are better left unsaid
Leave well alone
Leave us all alone
We don’t need to know

Hey you without a clue
You make the Nine o’clock News
Then you make the News at Ten
Eleven, Twelve, Twenty-four
And over and over again
Leave well alone
Leave us all alone
We don’t need to know

Hey, so, you’re in the know?
You’ve uncovered the secrets of the world?
Be the trees; the seas; the sky
You run much further and the world will die
Leave well alone
Leave us all alone
We don’t need to know

A lust for life (working title)

A lust for life
And his home
I even covet his wife
I’ll never tell though
He’ll get one over on me
And even though
My hair and my fingernails grow
My bones are just dust
And that’s an end to my lust

Incarcerate me
And tell me stories of those who are free

Please turn away
You haven’t read the headlines today
If you had been there
You would’ve done the same
Stood hand-in-hand
With the pouting posing Princess of the Damned
A scar on the back of the neck

TV taught me how to live my life
But never taught me
The best kept secret

Vantage point of view from the bridge
From on high on your horse
With your head in the clouds
Which bandwagon today?
Tread on heels
Tread on toes
Tread on eggshells
A scar on the back of the neck

Trading blows with Damocles swords
A man sat at the bottom of the stairs can’t fall

Shadow in the Shade

Who are you today?
Another shadow in the shade
You are one-million different faces
Who all stare separate ways
Each face aware the staring
Fritters precious days away
And gets caught up in a dirty, fibbing, blinkered-eye malaise
Tomorrow’s rules book may highlight how to view
But what good’s self-assurance
When you know, damn well, you aren’t you?

Two for Joy

I kiss the pavement whilst a magpie gently stokes the sky
There’s something wrong here, but nobody will look it in the eye
Poking out from underneath the carpet
A day-to-day snuff movie of scaredy-cat scarecrows in decline

And every single one of us can feel it in the air
But scarecrows don’t have brains and so pretend they’re unaware
And so when it all goes up in flames
The smoke will choke the magpie
We were too foolish to compare

You say you want another revolution?
One for sorrow, two for joy

Elephants

Hunky dory masquerade
Don’t you worry!
Everything’s OK
We all got up today
Ate our cornflakes
The hands on the clock still move

The hands on the clock still move

I clutch white knuckled
To that which belongs to me
And me alone
And so I’ve got no right
For rose-tinted eyes to cry me to sleep because –

– there they all are!
Don’t tell me that you can’t see
Elephants filling the room
Not a care in the world for simple harmony

Out of sight so out of mind
Just doesn’t count
If you’re voluntarily blind
Don’t plead ignorant with me
Ignorance is bliss
And bliss is a luxury –

¬– we can’t afford!
Don’t tell me that you can’t see
Elephants filling the room
Not a care in the world for simple harmony

It’ll all come around again
With vicious fangs
And fuck us from behind
Glance back over shoulders where
Footprints trail a pathway
Straight to hell

So fucking hard done to aren’t we?
So fucking hard done to aren’t we?

There they all are!
Don’t tell me that you can’t see
Elephants filling the room
Not a care in the world for simple harmony