Produced and Written by Magnus Brandt
Photograph by Joe Matthews

7 months (2024)

7 months
No sleep
No dreams
It’s been 7 months
No sleep
No sleep

Up on the graveside
Up in the daylight
Every morning

7 months
No sleep
No sleep
7 months
No sleep
No sleep
7 months
No sleep
No sleep

7 Months

M32 into Saint Paul’s
11:30 pm on a Tuesday
Back home staring at the same walls

What good's the air done?
What good's the air done for me?
Watch you let your hair down
and spin your head around from me

M32 into Saint Paul’s
11:30 pm on a Tuesday
Back home staring at the same walls
Head and my heart are in two places
National expression on their blue faces
I don’t wanna stay here but
I’m stuck again

We spin our webs out as we spin our hearts out
War and people taking sides
I wanna pull the lead out as I crash the car out
I wanna let you in my ride
Oh 'cos I wanna see you the way I was dressed in white
I wanna see you the way I was left inside
Like a photo in the hallway, or a painting on the wall
I'm coming back to Saint Paul's
Coming back to Saint Paul's

Don’t you see what I can see
How it brought me to my knees
Yeah that’s burning light
Burning light 
I can dream beneath the trees 
'Cos I ain’t had too much sleep
'Cos of burning light
Yeah that’s burning light

When you’re young it’s in the distance
As you age it’s almost there
He’s walking past those shopfront windows
And all the people passing by they stop and stare

When you’ve got a good thing and it’s too good to be true

Don’t you see what I can see
How it brought me to my knees
Yeah that’s burning light
Burning light 
I can dream beneath the trees 
'Cos I ain’t had too much sleep
'Cos of burning light
Yeah that’s burning light

Burning Light

Magnus Brandt