English Songs

Long may you reignYou’re an animal, you are bloodthirstyOut window panes talking utter nonsenseYou have no idea Strings tied to leversSlowed-down clocks tetheredAll this showmanshipTo keep it for you in sweetness Way to go, tigerHigher and higherWilder and lighterFor you Long may you roarAt your dinosaursYou’re a just rulerCovered in mud, you look ridiculousAnd you […]

Forgive me, PeterMy lost fearless leaderIn closets like cedarPreserved from when we were just kidsIs it somethin’ I did?The goddess of timingOnce found us beguilingShe said she was tryingPeter, was she lying?My ribs get the feeling she did And I didn’t wanna come downI thought it was just goodbye for now You said you were

I was in my new house placing daydreamsPatching up the crack along the wallI pass it and lose track of what I’m saying‘Cause that’s where I was when I got the call When the first stone’s thrown, there’s screamin’In the streets, there’s a raging riotWhen it’s “Burn the bitch,” they’re shriekingWhen the truth comes out,

One, two, three, four Hand on the throttleThought I caught lightning in a bottleOh, but it’s gone againAnd it was writtenI got cursed like Eve got bittenOh, was it punishment?Pad around when I get homeI guess a lesser woman would’ve lost hopeA greater woman wouldn’t begBut I looked to the sky and said “PleaseI’ve been

I had died the tiniest deathI spied the catch in your breathOut, out, out, out, out, outNorthbound I got carried awayAs you boarded your trainSouth, south, south, south, south, south A feather taken by the wind blowingI’m afflicted by the not knowing, so I look in people’s windowsTransfixed by rose golden glowsThey have their friends

When I picture my hometownThere’s a bronze, spray-tanned statue of youAnd a plaque underneath itThat threatens to push me down the stairs at our school And it was always the same searing painBut I dreamed that one day I could say All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’And I can’t forgive

Quick, quick, tell me something awfulLike you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guyTell me all your secrets, all you’ll ever be isMy eternal consolation prizeYou see, I was a debutante in another life, butNow I seem to be scared to go outsideIf comfort is a construct, I don’t believe in

I feel so high school every time I look at youI wanna find you in a crowd just to hide from you And in a blink of a crinklin’ eyeI’m sinkin’, our fingers entwinedCheeks pink in the twinklin’ lightsTell me ’bout the first time you saw meI’ll drink what you think and I’m highFrom smokin’

(Uh-oh, uh-oh) We hereby conduct this post-mortemHe was a hot house flower to my outdoorsmanOur maladies were such we could not cure themAnd so a touch that was my birthright became foreign Come one, come all, it’s happenin’ againThe empathetic hunger descendsWe’ll tell no one except all of our friendsWe must knowHow did it end?(Uh-oh,

Your hologram stumbled into my apartmentHands in the hair of somebody in darknessNamed Chloe or Sam or Sophia or MarcusAnd I just watched it happenAs the decade would play us for foolsAnd you saw my bones out with somebody newWho seemed like he would’ve bullied you in schoolAnd you just watched it happen If you