Piano Magic

Oh, Lord I've lost the one I love I gave her all I had But that was not enough Oh, Lord I cannot bear to breathe Her voice is but a memory Her kiss is but a dream So long I haven't left my bed I see no point in getting up I wish that I were dead...

Though clouds that pass may mask the sun though waves, as bows, may come undone though summer's flock may not return though bones may crack and cities burn though boys may never come to men though letters penned may ne'er be sent though bare the trees th...

There's rain on the line Between his ear and mine Lost in translation, bad patient I'm a terrier, a black sheep, half-relation He's French, a hack, white, Caucasian We fuck in sadness, A cold frustration Then we're fine for a while, Our hearts adja...

Don't trust the light in here it's only chemical between you and me don't trust the light in here it's only chemical between you and me i've lost a lot of friends it's not hard to comprehend that the closer you get, the more you forget your insecurity d...

Cities and factories spread across the borrowed map But still I’m lost Cities and factories spread across the furrowed land But still I’m lost And the soil is as cold as the moon And the trees are as dead as a ghost And if I never see you again Well, I...

On the forecourts of French libraries from Reignac to Marseilles The rain rattles small cars, clouds drape over backseats I am a photograph in your satchel, between a paperback and cigarettes I am the dead bird on the gravel, neck snapped from last night’s...

Came to London to find myself but in ten million people Where do you start? Drunk at a party You asked me if I was someone else and I say "Yeah, if it helps you, I won't be myself" Like Japanese poets who capture a Summer in only three lines With just on...

You're life's like a comic book All shadows and childhood fantasy The people you love, disguised In a velvet glove biography But i recognize what's going on: Deleted scenes And when your eyes go out You play them back, as broken dreams I don't ge...

Anything can happen in life Especially nothing, mainly nothing Once you know that, you're fine Once you know that, you can retire Set your clock by your heart Work's overrated and it will kill you Finish nothing you start And start nothing you thin...

There was a time when I’d tell you There was a time when I’d say But I can’t look in your eyes now, baby Since you sent me away And I’ve been living in exile I’m not allowed at the door You don’t answer my phone calls You don’t answer at all I’ve b...

Outside, the fairground in snow Revolves like a waltz, funeral slow And summer has gone, collapsed like a chair Like the heart of a bird, a bell on the air Inside, the wireless in snow The orchestra drowns, funeral slow And autumn has gone and with it th...

I am the sub-librarian, come in on the council bus Chalk Farm to Highgate Woods, sportsbag of borrowed books A steady diet of Brautigan, 'Tapestry' on the walkman Paranormal ill-health from dusting off the top shelf I am the sub-librarian, counter girl, te...

I came to your party dressed as a shadow and you never knew, you never knew I rolled through the halls like a velvet wave, as quiet as an empty stage I blackened your eyes and stole the light from your glass But in the cold calm of the morning, lay like a d...

I must leave london It is bad for my soul It's making a hole That will erode me I cannot subscribe I cannot tow the line And robert elms, You're selectively blind She shall not miss me And i care not Cos she's doing me in And she's wearing me thin...

The doctors shake their heads They chain around the bed They're looking for a reason to why I'm still not dead The medicine's not working I haven't sleep for days The light is shone right through me The skeleton is weighed Incurable, I'm helpless - the...

In the last gasp of your heart A song you couldn't sing The words were far too old The tune was paper thin But when you were a girl This song was fresh and loud You chased it round the school yard You rode it like a cloud Rob from always on the run dot...

I slip and slide through my life, trying to get a grip on the rail. I'm grasping in the dark for a switch that'll turn on some almighty bright white light and thus, illuminate the way, the path, make everything clear as day. And every breath I take seems to be...

Your name is assured in the history books The ink it has settled, no fear But do not for once grow attached to your throne The price of betrayal is dear The weight of the power, corruption and lies Has broken the strongest of spines The crown that you wea...

Life has not finished with me yet Life has not finished with me yet I've stood on the ledge, peered over the edge Life has not finished with me yet Life has not finished with me yet (no) Life has not finished with me yet I've put blade to vein but...

Well, i left home when i was 16 I had no reason, had no rhyme I did not know where i was going It did not matter at that time And there were people on the street, people on the street The strangest people that you'd ever meet There were people on the s...

It's the night of the hunter It's the night of the long knives It's the night of the hunter And you can justify all you like Sleep tight, this snowy night For spring, you will never see again Say goodbye to your awful wives Bid farewell to your awful...

Run away when you see me coming and I can only say, "Not fair - this is not fair" Miles away, reading, writing books Look outside with imagination - I'm here and I'm sad I'm here and I'm sad 

This life winds me up too much I am taut as a wire And the pressure's building up I am up to the neck I am cut to the quick I am stuffed to the gills I am sicker than sick You think you know me But you don't know me You get a version You cast asper...

My password is a dead aunt's name A monument, a testament My password is a dead aunt's name A cenotaph, a shallow grave I'm thirty one and fading fast Forget the past, repeat the past I'm thirty two and fading fast I started last and I finished last 

I was a postal worker from May until July I left because of allergies - the letters made me cry 8am on Fridays, 6am the rest Postal for the two months Coastal for the rest I kept the last day's letters 

Is it the shadow in my voice Oh, I can barely form a sigh Is it the music that I make Is it the sadness in my eyes You put me in position As it tells you in the book But I'm a separate chapter You cannot look it up My mother had a crying boy Hung up...

Out of season, out of heart, I cross you off beneath the stars Autumn leaves a nasty scar and with the leaves, the heart departs You're off the map, you've left the book I'm off my head and treading luck And it's too late to call you up The heart migrates...

Sing something that i know sing something before i go he said he'd be here but he didn't show so sing something that i know i've missed the last train it did not wait now i'm abandoned to my fate so sing something that i know sing something sad and s...

Geography, be kind to me, for the miles apart are killing me Tonight I would die to be by her side so speed the road, rush the lights Speed the road, rush the lights Geography, be kind to me, for the miles apart are killing me Tonight I would die to be by...

The clouds, they go their way With indefference to us A melancholy light The ghost of summer past The moon relieves the sun Across the evening sky And here we come undone And here we say goodbye Take the last kiss from my lips Take the last look at...

Could it be that you drove me into your fleet of hand-melt candy Could it be that you sent me falling off the roof backwards, gently Do not let my words depress you - I'm here to uplift you now (I'm here to uplift you now) Her eyes have gone south - terribl...

I feel alone in the city I feel alone in the crowd I try to listen to reason But the city's too loud I took my heart to a doctor He took one look in my eyes He told me hearts may be broken But the love never dies I tried to follow my father...

I cannot shake this notion It haunts me through the streets The height is that of giants The depth is that of seas The words refuse my tongue They tear me from my sleep You ask me why I cry But I cannot bear to speak The nightmare goes on Won't someb...

I can't get on, I can't get on Because I live in the past And it's too strong I can't get on, I can't get on Because I live in the past And it's too strong And the present is imperfect And the future, well, it's conditional And the past's a foreig...

The season is long and i've got the chills The city steps back, replaced by the hills There's snow on my heart and snow on my pills The season is long and this season kills Don't you ever think that you might love me? The season is long and I'm coming hom...

She slips out of bed in the fold of the night and the temperature drops with the cry of a fox it's the exit of a thief it's the falling of a leaf the dust is disturbed and her shadow is stirred she looks back at the lover but he dreams of another th...

You turn on your side like you have to face North or else you can't sleep : the unwritten law But how can you sleep with my heart so loud? Like a scream in a jar, like the sound of a crowd And way out at sea, the waves and the masts know that they've l...

The way we treat the animals Will govern how we're judged And if you slay the animals Your soul, it will be dust But no, the bloodless hunter Makes light of precious words He clears the land of wondrous beast He decimates the birds He pays no heed to...

I've a theory of ghosts and i'm a monster to girls I stick in their heart like a rusty spur But i've a theory of ghosts: They're alive and we're all dead; That they're trying to tell us is that it's this way around And i've a theory of girls They always...

Well, you never asked me so I never said. Though I tattooed the answer so I wouldn’t forget. Oh, there’s much I can offer if you’d open your eyes. The night is young but life is short so come inside. On a council bench on the Park Estate I have carv...

What does not destroy me can only make me stronger 

And there were those films, made in the Seventies where dolls ran through fields, late at night, after men/His shirt is my dress I lost my knees and hands He drowned my make-up in the white sand And I'm too tiny for a heart this big It swells like an ocean...

You can hear the room on these long, Winter nights if you’d just… if you’d just… if you’d just be quiet. Beneath the word, there’s the whisper of pipes. There’s the stretch of the wood. There’s the chink of the light. And the wires conduct. And the...

I know nothing of tides and I'm confused by the stars but you can never get lost when you've nowhere to go. And I've got space in my heart for the next twenty years so don't think there's a rush - just come on over sometime. And I will haunt...

You don't need me to tell you that there's nothing after this that nothing came before now and that's just the way it is any mark you think you leave here well, it will perish with the flesh the purpose of this sorry life well, that's anybody's guess a...

Make haste, the light is fading The traders turn the sign The clouds are lost to darkness The bars they spring to life You never loved this city But angel, it loves you Your smile, a Roman candle Your eyes are Prussian blue Beware, the crack of lightn...

Your ghost, a white candle in this night - smile broken, though eyes bright as carnival rides. You wander these streets, punch-drunk on the stars as the lights are stubbed out in the neighbourhood bars. Your voice, thin as smoke, barely exits your mouth....