You check your compartments for stowaways
And head out to the sea where it’s so easy
To disappear
You place your defenses on red alert
Batten down the hatches and disguise your intentions
Prepare for a war, that you induce and then ignore
Back in this world you have no chance for surviving
You kick and you scream but no one is listening
You contrive confusion and calculate
Rush in headlong to where failures lay in wait
You missed your chance to ruin all my plans
Back in this world you have no chance for surviving
You kick and you scream but no one is listening
I can’t sleep for fear of dreams that you’ll invade
Dawn lights the night ablaze with a brutal morning in silver flames
That just won’t wait
So I fire bullets into your skin
That won’t yield
That won’t pierce
That won’t let me in
You bluff my call, then you stutter, blush and stall
Back in this world you have no chance for surviving
You kick and you scream but no one is listening
And me
I’m still awake
No chance for sleep
It’s much too late
October 2001
Copyright 2001 by Brodie Smith
credits
from stilleven,
released January 31, 2017
Written, performed and produced by Brodie Smith
With:
Mary Cleaver - Vocals
Chris Rippin - Vocals
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