The Victim and the Bard

On the Northern Line
Half past five
Dreaming insurrection in a suit that's far too tight
With sleeves that barely reach your wrists
She says i look just like him
But with less collected features and an enigmatic grin
That taints the light and pains a world to smile
She sits and stays a while
Protected by her city and at the risk of losing pity for the victim and the bard
She said she likes my scars
But she's sifting through the fixtures list
To see which would be hard and which would be better as a blur
The pills inside her purse
Always make things worse

And I know it's old news
But this one hurts
This won't be easy
But it won't get worse
The banks won't hear me
The trees won't laugh
As they see me eyeing up the water's edge below
Eyes like marble, face like stone

Oh
Time to go
This can't help, at least not here
I'll chicken out and be gone
Facedown here
In the fields near our home

The trips and slides
The cold bright nights
The modulating phenotype of angels you now love to like and long for when they're gone
To see, to see the wrong
A magnified injustice and if there's one thing you can trust it's that-
Behaviours here are learned
As the light begins to turn
Dusk and daytime so aligned but she still claims it's morning's right
To split the night and day
A violent violet haze
A sight like this could never last
It's brighter just to burn the past and watch the world cave in
Sense without, within
It all comes down to him

And I know it's old news
But this one hurts
This won't be easy
But it won't get worse
The banks won't hear me
The trees won't laugh
As they see me eyeing up the water's edge below
Eyes like marble, face like stone

Oh
Time to go
This can't help, at least not here
Our tradition's all that we know
Facedown here
In the field near our home

I'm pretending that I know all about it
I'm pretending that I've seen this all before
And I'm wrong oh yes I know
But I'm sure I'm not alone
Love can make fools of us all

I'm pretending that I know all about it
I'm pretending that I've seen this all before
And I'm wrong oh yes I know
But I'm sure I'm not alone
Love can make fools of us all