Ramsgate Ladies

Chloe

You sat in the center, queen of the parlour
Vodka in one hand and a knife in the other
When our love was young
You knew everyone

Friends and neighbours and drunks and sailors,
Poets and painters and failures all wrapped in the bathing robes
Sank deep below your tides

I can still see you there in those cheap blue sandals
The warm suneset and the sea, 
Kissing your ankles,
The flickering candles of the stars waking up

You say the streets are filthy but ive seen worse
You see a dead seagull and i see a hearse
Babe it's relative, a lie we say to live
Or we put in verse

You hate the wind here, how it rattles for days
It blew us together don't let it tear us apart my love
A tumbling chimney top crumbling in the street.

You hate the lovers dancing cheek to cheek
And the same old drunks falling week to week 
In those back rooms which you made your tomb

The sunken garden, the light in your hair,
they dropped a bomb here and now its you lying there.
Reading Baudelaire
And squinting at me

Cause who needs a lighthouse when your smile is brighter
One day on the job you'd have all the sirens signing on,
Just one note of your song would bring the sailors all in

You're a firework swirling on the beach, 
The pulse of neon that lights the streets that we run through
And all that we do to keep it afloat

But baby dont you go
Back to London
There's a place for you here in our corner of the world
Though your richer than i could ever imagine, girl
With your pockets full of Oysters and Pearls.

Oysters And Pearls

smokescreen

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Diamond In The Coal

im back baby


lyrics:
tell me a secret that I know all to well
i'm the fruit and you are William Tell
there's no rhyme nor reason
when fools say 'love is gold'
when you've seen just how cheap its sold

sold to the highest bidder who leaps down from the pyre
with his coat on fire.

now i see the madness if your eyes
and now i know all you tried to hide

when everything under heaven seemed to lay between your thighs
when the golden strains of morning came and woke us with surprise
just like the stormy weather, a bad painting of the sky
seems the time we spent together was just a bitter lie
bitter lie, drink it up
bite your lip and baby fill your cup

time's a cruel mistress with the lines drawn on our face
and the one's who have to take our place
go find a new a word for all we said and all we'd do
I was always translating you
now im standing in the corner strumming on my battered lyre
strung with tight rope wire

cause now you've seen the madness in my eyes
and now you know all I tried to hide

when the city that surrounds you is drunk with the spring
when the blossoms flood the streets you walk and the songbirds start to sing
keep you this locket, hold on tightly to this chain 
though its heavy like the levy burst and rusted by the rain
by the rain, that falls on you
lean on in to hear something new

and i'll tell you a secret.

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