undrowned

first

boy

i think you should know

if you try hard then you might get a part

as a doe-eyed impressionist mime

bare as the lives of the footballers' wives that surround you

their diamonds aloft

a system of pistons

arachnid and blistered

a billboard

a murder of crows

while princes fly drones that can see through your bones

and the wind stops

the temperature drops

and harpies melt through you like horses to glue

i believe you

but not what you say

to close it around til you're scorched and undrowned

they devour you and totter in heels

and who wants the falklands and who wants the balkans

i love you

just like a bank

there's so much to talk about that we don't talk about

boy

trust in me

i fell

she said it fills me with dread

the people in parliament don't know the half of it

please

son

it's only a sport

the fate of a ball don't enthral me at all

so relax here go through it again

who have you seen knows what all of it means?

i fell down

down

and i saw a billionaire

with all of his innards nailed

to the walls

to the walls

to the west

don't fear it now

but don't stop asking!

hey

man

you're probably right

it's not a galaxy made for a guy like me

badness

the edge of the world

the edge of my memory

some kind of energy

burned up and frittered away

bile in the gutters and gout for a god

but i'm lawful

i kept my head down

i turned a blind eye and i played my cards right

i'm in debt

man

i've waited too long

bought all the right things i've bought all the right things

i'm lonely

i don't know myself

i thought there was something i waited for something

oh down

down

down!

don't let

don't let

don't let

don't let

don't let me down