Secret Weapon (2019)
1. ALRIGHT
while the moon wades the night
wide awake ’n wild & tired
a fawn a fumbling for the light
light of love, oh light.
light of mine, o love required
divine love, terrified
love is just a lot of time
love is just a child of mine
child o mine o seek to spite
bend and mend love, unrequited
lovers seek and lovers find
love is good, lovers unkind
yet love is love and born of love &
love is never enough
it’s just a mother’s call to quiet
love I know, it’s all alright
2. WHEN YOU COME AROUND
when you come around
come around to me
when you hold me down
hold me under thee
take me on the road
take me on my own
time
to take
from me.
3. INCOMPLETE
Can’t run, never could
i’m no athlete
Can’t run, never could
Not a natural athlete
Can’t keep company
Yr on the a-team
Far ahead of me
Forever sixteen
In it, a bad dream
Can’t run, never could, it’s no good
Can’t run but I never could, stay put
I am lost in the void
I’m looking for you
Yr no longer amused
I see you in the waiting room
In a low moon
In a attitude
Incomplete
I lose it, I lose it,
You come on boy like bruises, bruises, bruises,
Impatient I have fallen from the way
You don’t look at me straight anymore
It’s tragic, tragic
To think we had it, had it, had it
You don’t know the half of it
The dark of it,
When I think to the start of it
Tell me:
Do you recall?
Have you any memory?
Do you recall?
Have you any memory?
Of the waiting room
Of a low moon
Giving a little attitude
Incomplete
4. ONLY ONE
I am not the only one
You are not the only one
I am not the only one
& you are not the only one
As a ray is to the sun
A wave onto the shoreline
A part unto the sum
I am not the only one
5. MARTINGALE
False endings lead false hope
Threefold amen, holy smokes
Just when you think summer’s on the ropes
Moving shadows, friendly ghosts
Scared of going home alone
Mirrors & smoke
The oldest joke is getting old
Call him out, call him in,
Call him wild, wild is the wind
& just when you think that you’ve got him pinned
He’ll turn it back on you, turn, turn again
Running at a loss, losing
Oh
I been playing the martingale
Held on too long, had to fail
But even if I broke even
Would I fold and leave, then?
6. WILL YOU MISS ME
Will you miss me when I’m gone,
When the summer sun has got you feeling warm?
When thought turns to caress
& there’s less to undress
Will you think of me,
& how you liked me best
Will you miss me when I’m gone
When the night is dark and you are left alone
When leaves fall from trees
& red runs into green
Will you start to missing me?
Will me when I’m gone?
When the circus that amuses you moves on
When snow is not he ground
And feet don’t make a sound
Will you notice then
I am not around
Will you miss me in the spring
When new life hides in every little thing
Will birds singing their song
Remind you of our own
And will you
Miss me when I’m gone
O will you, miss me now I’m gone?
7. GHOSTS
Got a buzz right now
there’s a feeling in the room
We shook off all the others
Well that’s not quite true
But I feel it and you feel it too
In the room silent
No smoke or mirrors to hide us
& the ghosts of our past lives
Yeah they’re sitting here beside us
In the room silent
Seen a lie, seen a liar
& that’s not true either
So I piled ‘em up and I made a fire
It’s an easy way out
From all this talk of children & wives
You’re scaring me
& the ghosts of my past lives
When they get scared they start to fight
And when there’s fighting I’m not sleeping
And if you call that love
Then I don’t love’s call
& that’s not true at all
So let ‘em lie where they fall
Bodies on a bedroom floor
And there we’ll turn
Before our eyes
To ghosts of the others’ past life
Ghosts of each other’s past life.
8. HOME
Lover come home
I am your home
Lover come round
When you calm down
When we can speak words that don’t spark
Fires that last long after the dark
When every sigh is outta sight
Lover come home
Come home tonight
Lover come home
I am your home
Lover come round
When you calm down
When we can speak words that don’t spite
Matches that burn too long and too bright
When every bad patch is patched up right
Lover come home
Come home tonight
9. INTERSPECIES
Oh how I made you God’s perfect image
A perfect stranger, a perfect plan
Now that it’s later I see the mistakes
I made when I drew ya with my own hand
I drew your shoulder a little bolder
Like it could carry more than it can
Over your head I placed the need to wed
I know it’s unlikely you’re a family man
How could I draw it so wrong and ignore it?
A shape so amorphous can’t commit to ink
Wave on the sea
You break as you leave me
You shake as you seep into my skin