What Makes Roses Red This Love, It’s all you’ll get from me, Low and ancient, Nothing but teeth. To pluck your petals and finally, 1 1
Ghosts Pass me the fire And I’ll claim the lead, A ghost on the stairs, just the en I’ll search for the shapes that ha The fall of a shroud on the points 1 1
Born at Sea My brothers in arms Carve a course of destruction, All hands to the bow lest the day And fall to those who seek to usur For blood and for gold do all men
Shoot-out We came upon this desert Caked in fire and stale defeat, With vultures at our side And shovel’s waiting at our feet. The car lies still behind us 1
The Man I was waiting for a train, when I Hanging like smoke in a suit burni His voice billowed out, as sweet a Whispers of names I thought nobod He greeted me then, in the voice o 1
We Will Find You When all you can see is Mountains upon mountains, Snow five miles deep, Wind ripping out all the air that We will find the fires you’ve lit. 1
Widow’s Keep “Come close, come near” They catch my ear, “We’ve something quite unique; A place for those who long to lose But know not what they seek. 1
Afterparty The sky is collapsing, Across the plans you pinned to thi The clothes you found, buried in m Hang from your bones, but don’t qu Your guests crash through the door
My Girl Sits With Her Eyes to the Sea My girl sits with her eyes to the At the window of the house that sh She plays with her wings, And quietly sings, In a language I’ve studied but ca
Today I was brave today. Not in some grand or daring way. I didn’t break the Berlin wall Or heed some frantic midnight call Shots still fire and planes still 1
Lullaby Tell me, Is it the Hunter or the Harlot th Sat atop this hill, Draped in the rains that you held That whisper to you still. 1
Hearts in the Night We watched as the streets Fell from under our feet, Giving way to valley and gorge, We wrapped our arms fast ‘Round the craters and cracks,
I Made the Avalanche She’s by the window, the sun a pap Her eyes haunt the fall of night. I’m letting it go, wrap a coat aro The snow outside builds in mounds. We cut the phone, voices rattle a
Headlights Cast a line from the step of your Torn through desert, fields, ocean Pierce my cheek and drag me to sho I only wanted to knot the end. Follow you down the rabbit hole, 1
The Salt in the Sea I set the storm in my sights - With a shape, cut out in the headl Your neck, crooked high at the moo A howl of ruin, stuck hard in your But we broke the brewing sky, 2 2
We Took the Lead For the horses drowned in rising c Rotted whimpers tear to say; ‘Never will we run again, Bleached and boned, here we remain A fitting end to servants strife,
A Song Amongst The Waves Smell of salt, calling, Water writhing far beneath, The sirens count our footsteps As the ocean stirs from sleep. The time is now, 1
I Held You While You Slept I held you while you slept When years upon you yet had crept, When faith anew was baby blue And promise hung unkept. A loaded crown I reached to claim
Stairs Lie on the floor, we pluck words a From favourite songs and picture b Greedily captured, fingerprint smu These look like the people that we Driving home and the windows slide
Girder and Glass The world that I knew, Through the hole in the wall, Danced it’s shadows across the bed Stretching the light into an infan A call to transcend the shapes tha 1
I See You I see you, smiling down at me, From the top of the tallest tree, Scaling branches like baby steps, To find a place where you can fina The earth shrinks and falls from y 3
...And The Devil Walks With Him He comes alive, and the devil walk Burning through a city strewn with ‘Cross broken roofs On cloven hoof He stumbles t’wards the dawn, 1
Little Sister Little sister, Release to me, The fractured form of thunderous d Keep your heart and tethered eyes, A shape of stone and wilted pride.
Leaving Home I didn’t move house, I just left. Grabbed my jacket And to hell with the rest. The pictures will stay 1
I’ll Find You on the Hill The swirl of clouds on sepia sky, Make silhouette the swinging shape of Peter’s bell hung high. The cluttered step of grave regret Tread deep this trail of mine. 1
A Toast A toast, to those who’ve felt the To steal the kiss of breaking leaf To worship of the waning bloom, Regardless of fair reasons swoon. This is to feeling less than you a
Ode to the Hated Victim Steal my rose As I lay by the side of a screami A storm of clothes and smeared mak Time to wake up. I’m an empty bottle, 1
Orphans I used to write my name In letters ten feet tall, Across the blank stare of these ci I’d watch as the colour bled into And smile as it blinked back tears
The Apple and the Tree Make a choice, It’s the eye or the lip, Mine is the mark, The brand of the whip. Digging, deceiving, the wretched a
No Conviction The lights that fire in the sky, Are halogen, and hospital white. The songs that lovers share at nig Come vacuum packed, one dollar nin And all the worlds behind your eye
The Silent Explosion The violent departed, Punches a crater in the face of th A thunderous crack roaring out fro Stripping our skin from the shape Dragging us to our knees.
Wolves I gather my things, Set my course For the fringe, Through the gate past my mother’s At the borders I know, the trail 1
A Song of Used and Broken Things The night is an ocean of deepest d The shadows of beasts born of sorr Lurk where the light can’t hope to To pull at my scars and shatter my Each mark an incursion, a piercing 1
White Rose The day grows late, in the house w Learned to stand on our own two fe A thousand lessons I never knew, Built my body and shaped my truths All I have,
The Great Machine The nurse, she dances with a soldi Her hand mistakes his rifle for th A whisper in his ear, ‘What is life without the fear?’ Her arms will prove a cradle for t
One Hundred Violins The morning cracked wide open and As the jealous sun pushed through He saw it draped across me but he That from that day on my orbit was We’d drank each drop of darkness u 1