For Never After

They settled down to live inside the shameless carcass of their vagrant dream.

"This is ours."

"This is mine."

They cried to sleep, and woke up to the torrents of empathy pouring out of each other's arms.

Method Act

Now will you take your seats

And be quiet please

I need all eyes on me

As I try to explain

This is my final act

So I'll need your full attention

And for my final trick

I'll make everyone who loves me disappear

But I won't know how to bring them back...

So well you've played me for a fool,

But, uh, I'm okay with that.

It's an honour sharing this dance with you

And we were by far my favourite act.

Quiet/We Are An Obstacle

Let's float into the sky

Change into contrail vapours

Kiss the heavens goodnight

And fade into a blazing sunrise.

With Ash Raining Down On Our Sleepy Sleepy Town

Quiet nights remind us of how we once said it didn't matter if we didn't get the freedoms we were owed, for we had found each other, and we were people worth keeping for the rest of our lives.

Quiet nights make us wonder where we are now, and where the people worth keeping have been lost on the road that led us here, and whether we will find them again, and what it will take.

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Please, just let me stay a while

And wrap me in your scented heats

Trap me gently in your passing ghosts

and call your victories my defeats.

Take his name when you touch my face

Leave me lying in his place

Say "darling, you were always mine.

All you needed was a little time."

Give me one night of secret love

And tear my skin when I feel most vain

Let this yearning turn to dust

If it isn't the right kind of pain.

Then I guess I'll live with my mistakes

And we'll both sleep in this bed I've made

And when the time has passed, I'll think of when we fell.

And I'll cry, yes I'll cry. "My Lover, Goodbye.

At least,just once, I could say I knew you well."