9 GIANTS

8 TUMBLING AFTER

7 VAMPIRES

6 PANTALAIMON

5 TIN DREAM

4 DF MONSTER

2 SLEEP CHILD

1 ALONG CAME A

Slowly, slowly does it.
I need time to separate my head 
My heart 
Controls it
and I feel
I am prone to overfeeling
But please understand how long I spent so tired of living

But these are only emotions
And none of them matter

I'm well aware that I can be intense at the corner of my eye I see you are rolling yours.
I'm well aware that I can be intense at the back of my mind I can see you are changing yours.

Slowly, slowly does it.
I need time to separate my head 
My heart 
Controls it
(Burns it to the ground)
And I think
I am prone to overthinking
But please understand how long I spent so tired of living

Cause it is all an Illusion
And none of it matters

I'm well aware that I can be intense at the corner of my eye I see you are rolling yours.
I'm well aware that I can be intense at the back of my mind I can see you are changing yours.

Illusions (Radio Edit)

Too many times she's still up 'til sunlight
But what is she to you?
Look at what she's given up.

Too many times she's full of doubt and tongue tied
But what is she to you?
Look at what she's given up.

What am I to you?
What I would've given up.

Sleep Child

Look I don't mean to be rude 
But I have had enough of you 
And I've had it with all of your suits 
And the ties that you tie with entitlement. 
But I will take a walk in your shoes 
careful not to be consumed 
By the secrets you keep in your room - 
That you conceal with covert-ed governance. 

And why stop yourself saying what you wanna say? 
You don't want this no more 
You don't want that no more 
And why stop yourself feeling how you really feel? 
You don't care about us on our nooses 
That we hang on the belt of your choices. 

You're a wise man a wise man a wise man... Ha. 

So look I don't need an excuse 
And I don't need nothing from you 
But I know that you'll need time to prove 
That you're perfectly blameless in all of this 
But I will take a walk in your shoes 
Careful not to be consumed. 
We were over already too soon 
We were over already too soon... 

You don't care about us 
You don't care about us.

3wisemen

Here I welcome you to my Sanctuary.
The only issue’s that I cannot leave.
I have safety nets for my dragonflies 
(When they fall easier to categorise)
And my nightingales, well, they guard the door
In case I forget to sing what with you being here.
Being here in the house I made
But not being there to hear the sounds of your own motorcades
But didn’t we give up our time?

As I beckon you through the fallen leaves
I am spun up and sewn in my tapestries
And unravelling as you step inside
I will watch from the walls with my woven eyes.
Believing the threads you have left
Perhaps they can sit in a jar on my shelf
Because you being here is much more for me
Than it is for you.
But didn’t we give up our time?

Maybe one day we’ll…
Maybe one day we will...

Sanctuary

I don’t want your beating heart
pressing up against me
Let me sweat it out.

I don’t want to feel your love
Trembling against my closed door.

I don’t want to yield myself up to
Anything or
Anyone
Anyhow
I don’t want to feel your love
Interferes with my itinerary

But ohhwhwww
You see something changing in me don’t you...

And every time you see my face flush
My body’s warm
but in my head I’m peaceful.
And every time you see this haze
I am ignorant
And unaware
And blissful.

And every time I’m at your place
We are friend to friend
And all in all
We’re equal

But I don’t want your beating heart
That’s a higher cliff from which we both could fall

But osjeneienfnglwkw
You see something changing in me don’t you...

Beating Heart (an ode to oxytocin)

Shhh I can hear you
It’s just what I feared, you
Are open but full
I am empty but fool
And you
Are planting this tree
Seed by seed
Growing small to big wildly
And foolish me follows you
And it forests me
When I follow you
Oh it covers me
And I have good intentions with you
I have excellent intentions with you

Which I carry round with me
Whether I wanted to or did not want to

Shh can we stop
For a moment and clock
All our hours of wanting 
And wishing
And wasting this
And turn back around to be front facing
Towards and
Touching and
Reaching out
Reaching in 
And you’ll woman me
And I’ll hero you
And you’ll woman me
And I have good intentions with you
I have excellent intentions with you

Which I carry round with me
Whether I wanted to or did not want to

Shh I can hear we are creeping at snail’s pace
But my heart is running 
And tripping up
Needlessly
and my head is tugging its lead 
Trying terribly in vain to reign it back in
But you look at me 
And I look at you
And you look at me
And I have good intentions with you
I have excellent intentions with you

Which I carry round with me
Whether I wanted to or did not want to

Hood&wolf

They told me to dream big
So I dreamt of the sun
And its gravitational pull
its gravitational pull
And all the life it breathes into everything
And its gravitational pull

How can I ensure when I am fully grown
That the Milky Way will make room 
So that I can ever-glow?

How can I be centre of this universe 
(I know I know)
How can I be anything but disappointed?

(I can't match up, I can't match up, to any of my own...)

And now it's reached the stage
Where I am jealous of birds
and their levitational art
and their levitational art
And how their lightest hearts
Can help them reach the stars
and their levitational artistry

How can I ensure when I am dead and gone
That my legacy endures
My reputation twinkles on?
How, when I explode, can I shoot eight million eons?
Then how can I get further still?

(and yeah, I think I was about 16 when I learnt about the greeks and mythology and how they could talk mostly deeply about what it means to be a human being... and I learnt about Icarus and all of those events before his fall.... and I wondered... and I kept wondering.... and I kept wondering... how he must've felt in those few minutes just before he melted... to be the highest one... to be the highest one... to be the closest one...)

Icarus

I cultivated strength in baritone
To scare off anyone around my home
And I chose this life to be alone.
Alone
I’ll choose to live forever more.

I shun those showing love til no one calls, 
Unfeathered and unshrouded I am small.
I made a secret home from leaves, and all
I ever wanted was to leave them all.

I watch the humans lit in silhouette -
The electronic lights and warming beds -
And I will one day go from here 
And they will never know that I was there.

I’m independent 
Solitary
Free

Who are you?
Can I know your name before you destroy me? 
Before you destroy me. 
And what’s the use? 
Could I fly away before you destroy me? 
Before you destroy us all.

Put it down, put it down before you hurt yourself.
Put it down, put it down before you hurt yourself.

Inhospitable
Unwelcoming
A savage, selfish killer
Hypocrit
Anthropocentric
Keep the beautiful to look at.

Moth

In one ear and out
The other one
Are you listening?
If you ever doubt
My ever-love
Or my agenda
I won’t ask you to trust me
‘Cause no-one trustworthy says 
Trust me

But if you change your mind
I will be
I will be here
And no, never mind
All the things we disagree 
If you change your mind
I will be here

Constant troubleshoots
At 1am
Of disagreements
Then hysterical 
Til 6am
We laugh until it hurts
I won’t ask you to trust me
‘Cause no-one trustworthy says
Trust me

But if you change your mind
I will be
I will be here
And no, never mind
All the things we disagree 
If you change your mind
I will be here

If you ever doubt
My ever-love
Or my agenda
If you ever doubt
That you are loved
Even though it hurts
I would hope that you’d call me

Contemptible Shrew what have they done to you?
Contemptible Shrew I used to know you.
I am your soul, am your mind and your brain  
But not your mouth or your eyes

What can you do when heroes tow the line?
What can you do when you are trying to 
Forget the things that really turn you off?

Contemptible Shrew I miss you I really do
We were combined, intertwined through thick and thin
Why won’t you let me back in?

What can you do when heroes tow the line
What can you do when you are trying to 
Escape the things that really hurt you most?

I never knew that I was lilac blue
And even though I’ve felt so very yellow
I have to say the green grows heavy on me
And I can’t escape
I can’t forget
I can’t escape.

Contemptible Shrew - I love you - I really do
But I don’t always like you
I don’t always understand.

Shrew

FAULTRESS /fɒltrəs/ n. a female criminal (1838) 
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