Lie down with me
Let the sun break in
And the sound of the traffic outside
Knock on the window
Calling us to the city
We’ll stay beneath the sheets
Never has a smile made a girl quite so pretty
Bleary eyed you study my face
Morning passes at a languorous pace
Lie down with me
Left in the dark pinned down by a dagger
I walk through London alone with a drunken stagger
Cradling the cavern where it once belonged
The streets filled with our old songs
Cold night’s air stabs deeper than skin
Like I’ve been taught I must keep everything in
Pains only escape in tears splashing on my torn dress
Only worsened by the thought of you leaving this mess
Against the void, my palm I now press
Something beat again in this empty chest!
And I’m lost
When I am gone do not mourn a memory
Love and cherish the seconds spent in blissful company
When my body returns to the earth
Remember I was a soul – a good soul
My body was just a vessel
I shall never die for I am within you
I am in the wind; I dance in the breaking sunlight
Do not use my name as a reason to be trapped in sadness
I am not sad; I am free
Use my name in death as in life
I will watch over you content that you shall find happiness
And I will leave it behind for you to find
This morning, with tear stained sheets
I sunk deeper into bed
I begged for the blanket to become violent waves
Crashing over my head
Drown the memories that overwhlemed me with beauty
Scattered in my mind, now dead
With you the world was our canvas
Now stained an ominous red
My heart is burning from the raw tattoos
Of all of the inscribed words you said
To think those words will belong to someone else
I cant-
She will give you the world if you pay her the fee
Once she’s tasted your money she won’t leave you be
She will hold you in awe in her delicate hand
With her other palm she will crush you to sand
Take your identity and masquerade it as hers
Write your life to her tune in a twisted verse
She will laugh with you, flirt with you, set you alight
While the people who love her wither and die
She will shower you with gold that burns into ash
Her embrace can bring your walls down with a deafening crash
The whole world thinks she’s happy but it’s an elaborate lie
She can break whole a life with her carless sigh
Damns the wicked and evil with her brave curse
Then leaves the homeless and poor to grow sicker and worse
She touches with a knife and wounds with her words
Promises broken that fly away with the birds
She builds upon love but brings nothing but pain
This wondrous women; this magnificent Britain
Swept up in the familiarity of a love I once knew
a year since our last meet, a welcoming return
In your absence inspiration was lost too
The year brought with it an unfortunate journey
You take me back to the world left behind
But without you knowledge left me to learning
Everything you taught me to see
Had been hidden behind lie laden smoke
My safe home had turned to a house of animosity
Bricks fell without regard for sentiment
Our memories of our months destroyed
Without your peace I exuded anger to vent
My dearest love now your world I again enter
To discover the person you force me to be
Oh my dearest love, my dearest winter.