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I'm exposed, drinking beer, seeing
clear, speaking English to a stranger I've just
met. Miles away from home I'm
doused in coffee-shop smoke and waves of pollution wear my
throat down, hold my nose
now you can taste what fragile reality they could
not bear to hide.
Orders another drink for you and me,
we've surely passed our limit for tonight but our bodies rest
still within the warmth. Basking baked beneath
the filters of their cigarettes
spat out on the concrete and the
two guitars, one drum that compose a solid community,
a sweet loving symphony.
Sing sweetly, oh sing solidly,
they know that in your heart there has been
much wrong. But as they're passing
off the instruments
one at a
time to you
begging another sip of
theirs to you, offering stick after
stick after stick to you, you realise that
most of what ailed you before was merely just
dust.
Take a drink now, order a cab home, carry your
lover in your palm with a cloth,
you've been denying your smile and your
home is in his eyes,
don't you forget that
in everything
you are meant to
belong.
clear, speaking English to a stranger I've just
met. Miles away from home I'm
doused in coffee-shop smoke and waves of pollution wear my
throat down, hold my nose
now you can taste what fragile reality they could
not bear to hide.
Orders another drink for you and me,
we've surely passed our limit for tonight but our bodies rest
still within the warmth. Basking baked beneath
the filters of their cigarettes
spat out on the concrete and the
two guitars, one drum that compose a solid community,
a sweet loving symphony.
Sing sweetly, oh sing solidly,
they know that in your heart there has been
much wrong. But as they're passing
off the instruments
one at a
time to you
begging another sip of
theirs to you, offering stick after
stick after stick to you, you realise that
most of what ailed you before was merely just
dust.
Take a drink now, order a cab home, carry your
lover in your palm with a cloth,
you've been denying your smile and your
home is in his eyes,
don't you forget that
in everything
you are meant to
belong.
Published by Charlotte E.E. Griffiths
Written by Charlotte E.E. Griffiths
7 years ago 
