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Ok ok i
I had my meeting today i
think it went ok
you know?
Ok ok so
I’m coming home though
maybe only
for a few
nights but
I’m coming home
Oh yeah they say good but
not out of the woods yet but
I’ve been doing fieldcraft
and cooking
Ok ok so
What shall we do first though
Who’s around?
Who’s still around? Who’s around? cos
I’m coming home
I’m coming home for Christmas
The winter sun shines the brightest
On the way up to the front door
And the burden feels the lightest
The minute after dawn
The winter sun shines the brightest
You’d think i’d learn my lesson
But i just can’t help feeling
hopeful this morning
Even after all the psalms and sessions
I’m coming home for Christmas
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I’m disappearing from the discourse
I’m keeping quiet over Christmas
I’ll be staying cold and cool
or out in the garden
Sharing the moon
with you
Mainlining sentimentality
Diving through port looking for beauty
Holding on to your hand
under the table
Sharing the moon
with you
Sometimes when i saw your
eyes in the morning
the birds singing dawn and
the sky looking grand
Some time before everybody started lying
I'd think the world was coming round finally
you did so well raising your family
All that twinkles in a different county
I’ve played my hand so badly
I’m stuck at the nasty party
But i’m sharing the moon
With you
Bells ring across the sunlit uplands
Scattering church mice through the cold land
Snow has fallen on the noises
Erased all but the sky
So I’m sharing the moon with yooouuu
Shards of hope glisten in the ice cubes
Charades and shadows they entice you
I’m acting out a play about how
love will find a way
I’m sharing the moon
with you
Sometimes we would talk
until the dawn chorus
would gently implore us
to get some rest
from making up defences for
those who would abhor us
I thought that that was just the way to be
Some say that you can’t choose your family
Some say that actually yes you can
So I whisper to the starlings
To get a message to you darling
I’m sharing the moon
With
Youu
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New Year Libertines
03:31
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whether in cold hard reality
or on a raft of ideas
or underneath a magic money tree
somehow at some point in the year
we’ll sail around the world
we’ll sail around the room
glide over snowy mountain ridges
underneath a hunter’s moon
one day we’ll be together
they say, let’s just be clear
we’ll not break another promise
happy new year
even if we have to quarantine
trapped in a package of measures
we’ll just be cleverer libertines
so far above all these earthly endeavours
we’ll sail around the world
we’ll sail around the room
glide over snowy mountain ridges
underneath a hunter’s moon
one day we’ll be together
anyway love is inhere
in the unbreakable promise
happy newwwww year
la la libertines
should know when to leave a scene
red-faced rebel yells
don’t make memes misreading Orwell
try not to worry too much
your spirit’s one thing no one can touch
so charge your glasses and devices
here’s to another year
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Palimpsest
03:56
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Outside the church,
Cold winter morning,
Wreathed in a delicate veil
woven from your own breath,
The myth about your death
has been debunked again and
when you smile the veil descends
and all the land is fresh and new again
A palimpsest on your chest
A scar across your heart
The last robin red-breast on earth sings
it’s not too late to start
Giving you everything
Everything
Oh my darling
And should the cold wind take the veil away
We’ll take the cold wind and sail away
Outside the church,
Cold Christmas morning,
Wreathed in an elegant veil
woven from your precious breath,
We’re lucky that you’re here,
Christ we’ve had a year, now it’s passed
We just keep rewriting the story
cos we can’t escape the draft
A palimpsest on your chest
A scar across your heart
The last robin red-breast on earth sings
it’s not too late to start
Giving you
Everything
Everything
Oh my darling
Oh darling
A palimpsest in your chest
A scar across your heart
The last robin red-breast on earth
Sings just how much all this is worth
Everything
everything
Oh darling
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