I had a dream about a mermaid
She hooked her lungs right out of my brain
Listened to my voice for days
I was the perfect frontman to her
Gulls and the pebbles and the waves

She found memories I'd misplaced,
You painted a smiling self-portrait on my face
As I am, as who I’ve been
I've felt the gentle stroke of your brush on my skin
There in the grass
Here in the dark
I close my eyes and melt into art

Knees in the grass 
Teeth on the couch
She told me
Of the treasure-chest in my heart 

Your friendship handing me food and drink
I wrote my thesis on how that’s what love is
4 kitchens dispersed in time
Your crockery warm between
our exams

Hazel and pine
Tea on the counter
Red on the stovetop
Strength in my glass
Treasure kept in my heart

There’s a version of this where my people

Keep faith with the Avon and we’re in the same year in highschool

And we never exchange a word 

cos I’m a shy boy and I don’t talk to girls

I’m a skate-punk, you be the bookish nerd


Your hair worn down

My knees all scratched


My hair torn out

My shins in tatters 


But hazel and pine
Teeth on the couch
Me in your eyes
My glass on the counter
Red on the stovetop
Gold on my spine
Knees in the grass

Blue on the cotton
Tea on the counter
Hazel and pine
Chords in the park
Your voice in my hand
Kohl in my eyes
Gold on the beams

Your place in my healing

Your voice on the track

You’re a part of me being
here to look back
at my heart


Treasure kept in my heart



dream vision (home recording)

I'd be just the luckiest guy 
Make me the most beautiful bride 

She’s got the prettiest eyes I’ve ever seen in a woman
Makes we want to do some American shit
Like take her to the drive-in and find out how she likes her popcorn

I'm never as delicate as when I’m feeling strong
And I want a heart so pure it’d kill me if I let her down
I’m never as opaque as when I’m stripped to the bone
And I’m so used to speaking in tongues
I say my own name wrong
I say my own name wrong

She’s got that cute kind of laugh I’ve always liked in a woman
Makes me want to tell some stupid anecdote about how I’m so bad at surfing
Or I tamed a wild horse once 

I never feel as delicate as when I’m being strong
I want my courage to be so frightening it could kill a man
I’m never as opaque as when I’m stripped to the bone
And I’m so used to speaking in tongues

She says the ink in my arms, it feels so right
yeah it’s so me
And I want the sweat on my brow, I’ll take a drummer joke about me
I want her in my arms

But I’m not used to feeling this strong and I don’t make promises I can’t keep
I can’t keep being this strong 

I’m never this delicate
I’m never this opaque to me
I’m always speaking in tongues
But I’d kill to get this right this time, this time
I know my own name

sweet & salted (home recording)

You tell me I’m wonderful
You’ve acquired my taste
But I’m a danger to animal life
my whole body’s laced with
necessary evils
I’m hazardous material
I’m a hazard to your health so

I’ll
put in the call to poison control for you
It’s not too late
I’m chemical waste
I’ll put in a call to poison control
I know what they’ll say
I’m chemical waste
Going to be contained
They’ll shoot me into space

Poison control, poison control

First opinion
Second
Third
My clean-up efforts
Aren’t fooling anyone
There’s no talking back to the crackling 
Of a Geiger counter
There’s nothing for it but Mariana

I’ll put in a call to poison control
Like it’s not too late
I’m chemical waste
I’d put in a call to poison control
But what would they say?
I’m chemical waste
Going to be contained
And sunk beneath the waves

poison control, poison control

There’s no convincing me it would matter to you
The necessary evil in my chest says
Nothing matters
I could never matter to you
It doesn’t matter if

I’m dialling poison control 
Or not
Poison control
Poison control again
The necessary evils in my chest won’t hear it
You tell me I’m wonderful
You tell me I’m the best
Poison control
Poison control again

You tell me I’m wonderful
You tell me I’m the best
Poison control

Poison Control (Sage ICMP project)

Sharing work-in-progress solo stuff and/or dogminding 🐶🥁

Sage Thewlis

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