You Are A Shit Covered Fan

We Are All Dead Behind These Eyes
Like Old Chew Toys, All Spit No Swallow
Such A Human Thing To Sit And Wallow
Bruising Inside While Black And Blue Out
Killing Pints Of Stout And Start To Make Sense
World's Again All Childlike And Immense
Arctic Words Blow Cold On Drunken Nights
Preaching Bouncered Fights And Dodgy Cabs
Swap Jackets For Kisses Stained In Donner Kebabs

Then There's Feelings That You've Known
Blood Levels Are Low When The Day Begins
Awake To The Memories Of The Past Pist Sins
But Its Spinning Out Much Worse Than Before
As Feet Touch The Floor And Mind Starts To Stitch
Feel Like The Poor Once Again Among Rich
Can't Get Up If You're Not Willing To Climb
Normal Was A Time You Don't Remember When
Until You Wish You Were Drunk Again

So You Can Let Yourself Float
Like A Hole Riddled Boat And These People Can Stare
As You're Gasping For Air

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Visiting Hours

Got Views Of Stoned Roofs From Here
Through The Glass Because The Windows Don't Open
Vegas Letters Of Unwanted Welcomes
Older Than Patients And Fading Away Just The Same
Shuffle The Lino Passing Hand Pumps
Zimmer-Framed Pictures Of Landscapes Like Outside
Empty Beds Tucked, Blank, Still
There's No White Laughs From These People No More
"Nurse, Will You Help Me Back Into Bed"

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Platform 7

The Big Issue Is Old With Slates Falling Off
Pigeons Bum Around It For Loose Scraps and Missing Kicks

Slogans Altogether, A Hand Up Not Out
Yet The Yellow Of Keep Behind Gladly Helps Us Mind The Gap

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In Treatment

Sent To A Sentence In Your Own Head
Time Takes Them Out And Fiddles
Your Never Gona' Mend With No Thread
So Much Lipstick Yet No Mary Jane
Who Can Tell As Time Dwindles
One Small Fact That Brings Me Home Again

Seems Like A Fit But Pieces Are Hid

Such Shite You Must Have Turned To Good
Who'd Care For Broken Cars
This Isn't Anger, It's Afters Mis-Understood
One Song My Mind Fails To Clear Doubt
People Show Me Old Scars
Springsteen Fleeted Once In And Once Out

Who Can Argue When I Never Did

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"Was Your Kitchen Always This Color?"

A Girl's Bracelet That Jingles
And Earrings Never Taken Out

Like Forgotten Christmas Lights
Off And Up Without Attention

Like Bright Painted Colors

Lost Behind Fridge-Freezers

Like Old Pictures Or Clocks
That Become Part Of Walls

Notice Drawn With Dull Pencils

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Outies?

Strobe Colored Hair
Send Eyes Wild
No Moving Chairs
Dance Floor Tiles
Shapes Cross Fade
Cloak Room Paid
Songs Pass Decades
Wolves In Costume
Note Needed Bottles
Double Shot Vodka
Tickle Others Tonsils
Leave Behind Karma
Fresh Fake Nailed
Make Up Smeared
Avoid Any Whales
She Tastes Weird
Shirt Stains Drops
Shift All About
Girls We Swap
Let's Go Out

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May Contain Small Confused Pieces

So Much To Do And Little To Be At
Go Use All These Jig-Saw Pieces
Rush Along To Pass The Time
Push Together The Pieces
With Bent Edges
They Just Lay There
Grey Only To What It Is
Why's There Nothing On The Box
I Wish This All Would Just Fuck Off

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Found Fault

All Want It Unvarnished
To See Any Cracks
Something Rough In Our Hands
Rough Like Sand-less Timber
Still Afraid To Use You Or I
Smooth Skin Like Glass
Break It Into Pieces
It's The Most Crude There Is

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Fragment #16

Static Sings To Me
On Sleepless Nights Like Mute Notes
Turn Off The T.V.

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Clay Bodies

You're
Skipping Grades
Until It's Something New
Changeling In The Same Shoes
Growing Up And Growing, Stretch These Bones
Make Them Long Until It Wounds
Same Name Still Mark
This Clay
Stained

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Shingling

Bodies To Act As Rustproof

Swap Like A Used Up Prop

Its Fine If You Act Aloof

Its A Hop But To Her Its Chop

Nobody Wants A Leaky Roof

Stop Before There Is A Drop

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Fragment #15

Bodies Ying and Yang
What's Numbers To Do With It
In This Position

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Fragment #14

Leaf Rustling Birds
Like Passing Shapes On Dark Nights
Scare This Little Boy

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Club Snub

Now Hollywood Used Up All The Endings

Going Home Bruised With Drunken Sendings

Of Notions Now Spare To Cap Off Some Night

Yet Still Returning Bare In Morning's Red Light

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"Elbow In The Appropriate Place"

What Makes It Beat
Faster Between Sheets

A Smell You've Forgot
New Perfume He's Bought

Kisses Badly and Hollow
Only Better Could Follow

What Cushions Can Cover
Changes From One Another

These Visits Grow Shorter
For Other Gentleman Callers

I've Been Dark To White
And I Left Your Light

No "What About Me"
There's More Light I Can See

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(Inspired by Accidental Babies - Damien Rice)

Fragment #13

Say Hello Goodbye
My Words Hold Your Attention
At Least We're Touching

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Changing Light

Long For Change
Feels Like Red Forever
But Change Begins
With A Slight One
As She Went Heavy
Footed Down
And Across Until
Crumple Zones
And Bags Explode
Eyes Tired Waiting
Didn't Look
Until She Wishes
It Was Red Again

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It's Only Disco, Baby

A Tenner At The Door
Head Straight For The Floor
Pass The Bouncers
And Puke Stained Trousers
Ye Have Tainted Flirts
And We Have Ironed Shirts
With Hardened Knuckles
And Black Belt Buckles
There's Public Affection
In Every Direction
Count On Your Fingers
The Smell That Lingers
And Fighting Stances
Were Part Of Dances

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Vice

In Day's Deadest Hours
French Disease Roams
Streets And Back Alleys
And Those Who Pay
Roam Their's

Modern Day Dillingers
Sneak and Seek Pay
From Deep and Shallow
Pockets, Robbin' Hoodies
They Are Not

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Fall

Fall When Your Name I Call

Fall With The Wind and Let It Bring You To Me
Whole In My Arms

Fall From The Clouds and I'll Save You From The Ground
And All Other Harms

Fall Here And We Both Will Crawl

Fall To The Sea and Let The Tide Bring You Home
There I Will Wait

Fall From Grace and For You I Will Remain
No Sin Too Great

Fall As I Did For You, But You Won't Fall

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Six Questions I Want Summer To Answer

You A Man Or A Boy?

Does She Rise Or Kneel?

Is it All Free Or A Ploy?

What's Real Or Decoy?

Do You Leave Or Feel?
Did You Take Or Steal?

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Fragment #12

We Have Blown Up
Balloon Damaged Animals
Let Out All The Air

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Don' Know What You'd Call A Female Dog?

She Didn't Lick it Off The Grass
Words Through Are Cut Glass
Didn't Feel It and I Still Don't
But A Friend's Comment Pass

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Whitest Dumb-Ass Alive

She's His Donna From That Old Style Show
And His Golden Cage
Names On The Same Page
No Need For More Seasons, We Already Know
Yet He Might Find Something in This Blind Alley
The Whitest Boy He Knows
After Losing his 70's Rose
I Knew He Shouldn't Have Watched That Finale

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Sidelined

Old Muck Droplets Strike Bare Legs
Shoulders First in Tackles Made
Stomachs Thick as Beer Kegs
Evening Light Has to Fade
Turn On the Flood
Refill This Pitch
Replaced Stud
Who to Ditch

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Fragment #11

Everything is Red
But I've Bought Some White Paint
Now Get Out Your Brush

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Maynooth, I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down

High Ground No Longer Seen
Nothing But a Trip Back Down
Winning's Only for Mr. Sheen
It Can't Happen in This Town

Moss is All This Emotion Shit
I'm Feeling This Jagger Edge
A Year of Split and Grit
A City Will Drive the Wedge

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"Sing Me Some Blues, Kiddo"

Tell Me Girl What We Will Be
Tell Me Girl What We Will Be
I've a Half-Baked Idea About You And Me

I Have You I Don't Know How
I Have You I Don't Know How
All I'll Say's You Can't Stop Me Now

Having You, Lady Set Me Free
Having You, Lady Set Me Free
I Got a Big Ass Smile When You I See

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Vote Me Me Me

These Ones Who Put You In
Sing Each Name Like a Ballot
Stick Policies With a Pin
To List All The Friends You Got


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Fragment #10

Stereo Each Ear
You're Good at Those Merry Trix
All So Typical

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A Short Poem About A Dead Priest

To Lie in Church Ground
What Honor it Would Be
Collar White and Round
Now All His Time is Free
Only One Regret He Found
Of Real Boobs He'd Never See

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Sister's Are Doing For The Next Ones

Drag the Sound Longer
  The Cry of a Woolf
    Locked Up in a Room
    Staring Back into the Wilde
  Contributing Something More
Than a Modern Day King

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Bedroom Rusting

Redden Beard and Reddened Face
Hand Made Crüe Bi-Focal Case
Chained Silver Tight Around Throat
Creed and More Badged His Brown Coat
Can't See Bulls From His Bedroom
Prays Tardy Fame Stops Him Soon
Singing to Himself, Night Long
Only One to Hear This Song
Long Dirty Nails Strum to Soothe
Hits Every Chord, Crying "Hey Jude"

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Fragment #9

Just You k.d. lang
Your Music Has bell And hooks
Songs Without Big Names

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There Is A Light And The Bulb Needs Changing

Bright Now Burnt But Still On
We Walk Past Until Nights Dawn
I Am Now Forgiven It All Away
Nothing To See In The Light Of Day

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Still We Are Still

This Was No Epic, Theres So Many Fallen Women
Only Ink That Turns Pulp To Pulp Under My Pen
Much More Stress and Pain For Me To Undress
Yet Who Could Understand Your Light Brigade Less?

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Fragment #8

Night Long in Tension
Until Tiredness Calls Both
Holding One Another

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April Foolish

These Footsteps Fall Slow
As All Approached Me
I've No Words to Say
But Them Eyes I See
Falling Over Me
Goodnight She Will Say
Stay is What I See
No More Falling Slow

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