Melody Crux

the glass is half full
though it is mostly ice
and here in the fading light
you hear the birds
now you're kept alive
and ground down by desire
so freely romanticised
cos even the moving shadows look good
I'm in no rush tonight
I let them euthanise me
so I can feel the world just offering up
a relatively new metropolis
when I close my eyes
I'm not too bad with secrets
it's just the people I tell
time passes slow
like a serpent with its own tail in its mouth
there's a thousand people
please, can you get me out?
nobody knows
that right now I'm thinking this about them
and dancing the night away
I pine for the quiet places
that Candy hates
and I smoke, just to be outside again
well I could do without it
this comes and goes
just like that you know
I'm not too bad with secrets
it's just the people I tell
time passes slow
like a serpent with its own tail in its mouth
yeah, another sleepless dream
did you catch me out?
I can't let it go
'til I turn the lights off
and let the music die out
now it could be said
that we went deep
but not in the way that you 'd think
but like quicksand
in the way that the harder you struggle
the deeper you sink
when it began
could not foresee
the crowning remembrance to be
black lipstick
as dark as death
and a fragrance of faux pot pourri
now it could be said
that we went deep
but not in the way that you'd think
but like quicksand;
the harder you struggle
the deeper you sink