1969-2016

When routine bites hard and ambitions are low

And resentment rides high but emotions won't grow

And we're changing our ways, taking different roads

Then love, love will tear us apart again."

"Punctured bicycle... on a hillside desolate

Will nature make a man of me yet?"

“I don’t have to sell my soul / He’s already in me.”

"So I'll start a revolution from my bed

Cause you said the brains I had went to my head

Step outside, summertime's in bloom

Stand up beside the fireplace

Take that look from off your face

You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out."

"Rows of houses, all bearing down on me

I can feel their blue hands touching me."

"Libraries gave us power

Then work came and made us free

What price now for a shallow piece of dignity?"

"All this talk of getting old

It's getting me down my love

Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown

This time I'm comin' down."

"I'll be the corpse in your bathtub

Useless

I'll be as deaf as a post

If you hold me like a newborn

Whisper what you feel

My badly strung declaration

To you."

"Jealousy, turning saints into the sea Swimming through sick lullabies

Choking on your alibis"

"Time on your side it'll never end

The most beautiful thing you can ever spend

But you work in a shirt with your name tag on it

Drifting apart like a plate tectonic."

"An ending fitting for the start

You twist and tore our love apart

Your light fingers threw the dark

That shattered the lamp and into darkness it cast us."

"She tried to peel me off the pavement

Tried to insinuate sometimes

I am in danger of going too far

Asked me would I like to go for tea and toast."

"You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes

You passed me up so as not to break a promise

Scattered Polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar

In the long run, you said you knew that this would happen."

"You used to get it in your fishnets

Now you only get it in your night dress

Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness

Landed in a very common crisis."

"A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes

I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind."

“With these meaningless conversations

Well I’ll tell you they test my patience

And maybe we could be friends.”