Frightened rabbit

I am that dickhead in the kitchen Giving wine to your best girl's glass I am the amateur pornographer Unpleasant publisher by hand Not here, not here Heroic acts of man See the stumbling pinstripe trouser The flecks of sick on an office shoe Part of th...

i'm working on my backwards walk walking with no shoes or socks and the time rewinds to the end of may i wish we'd never met then met today i'm working on my faults and cracks filling in the blanks and gaps and when i write them out they don't make sense i ne...

All our secrets are smothered in dirt, underneath paving stones Lying waiting to be told Some stay hidden, while some get found Like our long lost soul, like a stone beneath the ground Backyard skulls, deep beneath the ground All those backyard skulls, not de...

oh this is what we need a line in the sand I would cross to here before the tide comes in and you should be less rude you don't know what it might do for you I'd be less rude to you we might just get along, too you sit on your high horse and you spout your h...

Okay stop. Okay start. And please me, I don't care how. Stop me and please me now, Oh, with your mouth. Big bad ate in a prison room. He's just itching to telephone you, Oh, with his mouth. Behave, behave. I don't know quite how to behave. Patience, patience...

It's Boxing Night I celebrate in style Boxer shorts and spirits floor littered with ghosts of bottles past There's a naked hush Hold only a breath and a pulse Of a heart that was kicking as though it is desperate to be born And I'm hosted blind Deaf to the d...

I am not myself I am A broken boxer stuffed with glass and sand This is now how health should feel Songs sung from the lungs of the elderly I'm dead now, check my chest and you'll see The light has been mined from me, burned for the heat I'm dead now can you h...

It was dawn. And the kitchen light was still on I stepped in, found the suicide asleep on the floor An open mouth, screams and makes no sound Apart from the ring of the tinnitus of silence You had your ear to the ground White noise. I don’t know if there...

December’s traditions Suck the last of summer from our cheeks Draw the curtains, strip the trees In so-called living rooms Scottish pastimes come to roost Love’s labour stains a linen sheet The ghostly body Who makes his bed beside you Is slowly losing teeth T...

His first kicking came on January 1st They said, “Welcome to the club, we’ll take your shoes and your shirt.” He wore his nosebleed like a red rosette And it was a prize he would win again and again and again. He had to find an escape route. It was a rumour,...

good night it's stroke-time let's get paralysed down both sides snake hips, red city kiss and your black eyes roll back midnight organ fight yours gives into mine it's all right and the fast blood hurricanes through me and then it rips my roof away with her fi...

So you just stepped out of the front of my house and I'll never see you again. I closed my eyes for a second and when they opened you weren't there. And the door shut shut I was vacuum packed, shrink-wrapped out of air And the spine collapsed and the eyes roll...

An itch, my eye Twitch like a memory Forgotten bars One of those cities One of those nights Everyone's darling Everyone's sweetheart Just this drink to hold my hand One glass of anything Anything cheap And I'm here just because Everyone else has com...

I'm in the arch of the church Between her thumb and her forefinger I'm a worshipper A zealot king, cursed, a devotee Of the heady golden dance she does She's an uncut drug Find the vein and the pulse Chased it and for a minute I was floating dead above...

I think about light, I think about lifting That brick off your mind, it's making you ill. I know it's not quite the custom in this country But if you never try then you'll never know, no you won't. Therefore you saw a pint somewhere in your forearm Bleed...

good arms, versus bad arms, will win hands down they are built to hold and fit look how far they go around you don't need these now that you've found another pair and the difference astounding, i should expect except leave the rest at arm's length keep your n...

Jesus is just a Spanish boy's name. How come one man got so much fame? To enemy, it's pointless to anybody That doesn't have faith Give me the cloth and I'll wipe my face. When it's all gone Something carries on And it's not morbid at all, Just when natures h...

You read to me from the riot act Way on high Clutching a crisp new testament Breathing fire Spare me the fake benevolence I don’t have time I’m too far gone for a telling I’ve lost my pride I don’t mind being lonely Leave me alone You’re acting all holy Me, I’...

Here I stand like a soldier, home from war With nothing to do but remember the shudder of bombs I’m sure it never quite goes away Never quite goes away Here I sit like a beginner, beginning again All those fuck-ups counted for nothing, ‘cause nothing makes sen...

Hear the dull drum roll Of the Great North Eastern line’s Coupled carriage ticking like My metronome And see that housing glow A skyline of cheap gold And crooked teeth I will call home For a day or so You can’t carry me away now Please don’t steal me from my...

I’ve been taken again Kidnapped before dawn Stolen by these songs Oh damn them all Beyond the housing glow Looking back will lose its point So stare forward into the void Of the endless road You can’t carry me away now Please don’t steal me from my house You c...

I left Howse without a fucking clue. And left New York City, girl, without you. But the sun does shine in this place some days. And even when there's cloud there isn't always rain. I'll stow away my greys, in a padlocked case and in a padlocked room. Only to...

My hole, I'll get my hole I'll get my hole Get my hole, get my hole And I will find out more It's a choo-choo train A rocket launch If we have a hormone race I'm bound to finish first Can you see in the dark? Can you see the look on your face? The f...

I cursed in church again and the handclaps all fell quiet I watched a statue of you cry A candle is blown, we start the black march home Through a stale and silent night There's a funeral in your eyes, and a drunk priest at your side Staggering sermons never w...

In a commissioned town, on Lump Street The brick-hard boy repeats a scripted lie Eyes to the ground on Lump Street There’s a broken jaw behind the dog-tooth smile The grunt and moan behind the night here Though breath is warm, sex is cold Nothing is gro...

Music now is quite amazing Musicians unite against the Enemy writing is a job, making someone look dumb is not. So if this song falls on deaf ears, I'll lip sync it so you can hear. I can hum for days and weeks and years I won't shed, nor will I sleep. Music...

Shut down the gospel singers Turn up the old heartbreakers I’m dying to tell you that I’m dying here Throw up the sickly joy and I’ll Swallow the sweet self-loathing I’m Just dying to be unhappy again Oh where love won’t grow I’ll build my home And if happines...

We’ll have no telephones here Just a gentle mouth to a smitten ear No technology here Such heady chemistry can’t be engineered We’ll use no binary code No pixellate template to contain us both Ignore the scurrying roads We will stay right here and want for not...

I'll turn off the TV It's killing us, we never speak There's a radio in the corner It's dying to make a scene So give me soft, soft static With a human voice underneath And we can both get old fashioned Put the brakes on these fast, fast wheels Oh let's get ol...

Poke at my iris, why can't I cry about this? Maybe there is something that you know that I don't? We adopt a brand new language, communicate through pursed lips, You try not to put on any sexy clothes or graces. I might never catch a mouse and present in...

When I hold you baby And your heart beats close to me I wanna stay in your arms forever Oh, your love can set you free When i wake each morning And the storm beats down on me And I know we belong together Oh, your love can set you free Set you free and dan...

Me and Snake Talk about you Everyday I can't wait to See your face And he tells me he feels The same We lie awake We're tired but we can't Get to sleep I'm tired cause I've scraped Through the day He's tired because he's Been out late again And there he lies...

We’re ruled by a governing frost It melts beneath alcohol briefly And then bites back We breathe on panes of glass A circle appears before freezing again And it’s taking its time Degree by reluctant degree And night by night The snow is still melting and doesn...

My good big deeds I'd say are more like plans than concrete By day we'll colonise, by night we'll bring peace Keep all your hopes to compile a crooner's woes Work out how to, how to complete these You should peel those eyes cos it's important that they see M...

The half-backflip conception State hospital birth The most threadbare, tall story The country has ever heard Brought home to breath smoke In the arms of her mother The blunt kitchen knife Who just lays in a submissive position Beneath a national weight And the...

The perfect place may never exist, may never exist The perfect time might be years and years away The city is overweight, and it's pressing on the pair of us We scowl and sweat beneath the overbearing crush But I still want to be here, want to be here I...

We salute at the threshold of the North Sea in my mind And a nod to the boredom that drove me here to face the tide and swim (Whoaaaa) I swim (Whoaaa) oh swim (Whoaaa) Dip the toe in the ocean. Oh how it hardens and it numbs. And the rest of me is a ver...

What's the blues when you've got the greys? I've think I've given up, my body's giving in In a building, I lie still And then I turn back over again In a building that has heating Sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat, dried-on stains I am sick of feeling sick and no...

Can you hear the road from this place? Can you hear footsteps, voices? Can you see the blood on my sleeve? I have fallen in the forest Did you hear me? In the loneliness oh the loneliness and the scream to prove to everyone that I exist in the loneli...

A cripple walks amongst you All you tired human beings He's got all the things a cripple has Not working arms and legs And vital parts fall from his system And dissolve in Scottish rain Vitally he doesn't miss them He's too fucked up to care Well, is that you...

I went looking for a song for you Something soft and patient to reflect its muse I took a walk will all my brightest thoughts But the weather soon turned and they all ran off Took to the ocean, in a boat this time Only an idiot would swim through the shit I wr...

Do the twist in the twisting outfit The loose tie with, the loose limp wrists Lift your dress enough to show me those shins Let your hair stick to your forehead Did you blush then when our hips touched? I can't tell, you're already red Am i right? you give me...

Far from the electric floor, removed from the red meat market I looked for a fire door, and escaped from the drums and barking Bereft of all social charms, I’m struck down by the hand of fear I’ve fallen to the corner’s arms, same way I, I’ve done for years...

A melting of morals A solder of souls As sexy as lace But with just as much holes Doubts were debated And Questions were raised All the stags and the hens Were stunned and amazed The portents and omens rang as loud as the bells With you at the altar And me in...

Love infectious wind we breathe. Fills up the portal that lust leaves. He yawns. She yawns as well. She yawns because she's bored. He yawns because he can't sleep anymore. They go out, fill their mouths with drink and food so they don't have to speak. And in...