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I brush my teeth for the first time
In who knows how many days
We’ve been living like wild animals
Eat, sleep, sustain

This life that I created
Takes all I have to survive
If only we lived as long
as the things we make to keep us alive

Why do we make things from plastic
When they’ll ever be is replaced
I should have made you from plastic
What else can I do to keep you safe
Who would make something just to throw it away
It’s all such a beautiful waste
It’s all such a beautiful waste

I’ve been counting your eyelashes
While time melts away
How to soak up each second of every day
Without being washed away
And when those waves come crashing in
There’s just no way we’ll survive
If only we could be built to last
Instead of born to die

I should have made you from plastic
What else can I do to keep you safe
Why do we make things from plastic
When all they’ll ever be is replaced
Who would make something just to throw it away
It’s all such a beautiful waste
It’s all such a beautiful waste

It’s a fearful thing to love what death can touch
Tell me why on earth would I make something I love so much

I should have made you from plastic
What else can I do to keep you safe
Why do we make things from plastic
When all they’ll ever be is replaced
I should have made you….

Toothbrush

Drip by Drip

Bigger Than Us

Exercise

Lyrics: 

Wish that I could say it was a warm summer day
But summer closed for business much too soon
We drove up to the spot where we remember them
And I wonder, does it feel like coming home? 

Hands soft as silk, lightly stitched onto the arms we link in each side of you
Feet stumble, frailer than the leaves that crumble under as we move

We brushed and brushed and brushed but still the leaves came in
So many words to say before the day draws in, 
But when you go, you’ll turn the leaves to gold


Stretch the mind back to the time of warm summer days
Pushing stubborn donkeys round a field
You pulled your way through darker days, when time stood still
Oh the mysteries that lay beyond my years

Hands soft as silk, lightly stitched onto the arms we link in each side of you
Feet stumble, frailer than the leaves that crumble under as we move

We brushed and brushed and brushed but still the leaves came in
This sudden rush of love can’t stop the day drawing in
And when you go, you’ll turn the leaves to gold

We brushed and brushed and brushed but still the leaves came in
I know I’ve missed so much so I’ll just drink this in
And when you go, you’ll turn the leaves to gold

Leaves

I took a pilgrimage to the British Museum
Seems I'm a tourist in this town, now I'm set to leave
Not much of a connoisseur, always struggled to see
Past the first impression, the sheer weight of history

But today somehow it all came alive
I could feel every brushstroke, each chip of the carving knife
A babbling river of voices I heard
Even if I didn't understand the words

And it's not up to you
No you don't get to choose
Whether to be loved or to be left behind
No it's not yours to see, your beholder holds the key
She sees the angel and she carves to set it free

That hunch in the shoulders, where did you learn that fear? 
It's the apology of a whisper I strain to hear
I remember that chocolate cake, those kind, sad eyes
Baking it over and over but you never take a slice

But there, in that place your eyes shine bright
You're a fountain of wisdom, flushed with pride
Do you stand a little taller, or is that just me? 
Jessica, I hope you can hear me

'Cos it's not up to you
No you don't get to choose
Whether to be loved or to be left behind
So I'm building a statue to show you what I see
I see an angel and I'll carve to set it free

I heard you stopped eating, heard it's been a rough year
Now we're standing in the garden, close to tears
And now look who's helpless, no I can't find the words
But I'm holding on with both hands for all it's worth

And up above, stars twinkle through blue
How can anyone feel any more than helpless in that view? 
Grains of sand scatter light across the sky
Oh, Jessica, we've only got tonight

And it's not up to you
No you don't get to choose
Whether to be loved or to be left behind
So I'm building a statue to show you what I see
I see an angel and I'll carve to set it free

No it's not up to you
No you don't get to choose
Whether to be loved or to be left behind
So I've built you a statue to be seen from galaxies above
Hope you remember you were loved

Jessica

Four-bar heater glows 
Pyjamas turn to toast
The cold tip of my nose 
Snow landing on snow

Inextricable 
Archive of glimmers
Tracing with my finger
All the light we share

The sound of your breath
Slowing as you drift
Further out of reach
Snow landing on snow

Snow on Snow

In This Skin

New album, Microclimate, coming Feb 2023.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5HIBZdQxI2yK1xeIs069n7



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