You take control of yourself As you take control of your body You tattooed a serpent on your spine And pierced your nipples twice And came back to me a second time. It’s your seven secret laws of falling apart And I don’t want to make them mine. The internet won’t help you now girl, There’s no search we can do for this shit. Who knows if there is a war in Heaven, Who knows what it’s like in the place You’re trying to escape to? Then you’ve dreads and you’re changing your hair Everyday’s different colours Making charts of favourite films And favourite songs And every favourite thing as a distraction From that hard and crucial part Of that one final moment Of those laws you’ve created And you could build a site reviewing Everything you like and will and didn’t like Online diaries and poetry links and And you could build up a dozen different identities To hide yourself behind Because online you’re a stranger of a very special kind But there’s no way of getting away from the fundamental fact Of your seven secret laws ‘Cause you’re too far down that track. And did I say that I don’t want to make them mine? You, you force me girl to run into things That I didn’t mean or want to say And sometimes I thought that heartbreak Wanted to keep us just that way But you keep shifting shape and changing places And I don’t feel like another day with those kind of races Of the mind and the past Wasn’t built to be recast as recrimination And in the search to calm this I searched through every station And landed on Sky And there’s topical things and underground bombs And coverage and reports and all kinds of Speculation and I’ve no real idea What’s going on or why I landed here It’s just that somehow I want to pull in the world Even the attacks To try to understand it all In one glorious moment, like revelation Where the chorus is the destination And we’re in the final station But we’re still finding excuses and explanations For falling headlong into art And your pierced and twisted, transformed body And those new colours for your hair Were never really the goal, You were trying to transform your soul Preparing to depart.

I was there at the time of creation Naked and far out at sea As a wind swept over the water Watching the dark and the light …split…inside me. We’ve been sent to love through the dark tonight As we wait for the moon’s mysterious rise But in the cold, still silence There’s nothing but your eyes In the beginning there was the word And the word was both love and pain We all try to hide, but we’ll never divide We’ll never divide water and rain. I try to empty to a space inside Fill it with words burning bright with grace Where there’s no-one to run from And no-one to chase And finally I’m as empty as the sky Finally I’m as weightless as that dream You had of me Finally I’m as empty as you want me to be. To let you in.

Our love is like a setting sun Come hold me now before it’s done Our time is short The season has almost gone. A snowdrop reveals a bud of white Now Spring has come with all her might To close the loop Of death, decay and life. All buds begin from leaves that fall Each generation has it’s call To rise or crawl Like serpents in the dust I heard the sound of an awestruck dove In an ancient wood calling from above “All freedom flies from the holy hands of love.” We passed our time With many friends With potent dreams And starts and ends We watched as countries Came and went We watched morality …get spent. Our love is like a setting sun Come hold me now before it’s done Our time is short The season has almost gone.

Mercy came home today She was wearing a long black dress With a hem that grew from the grave Of a million murdered men. She came from the beach where she prays With the widows of the sea For the fathers and all of the sons Who look a lot like me Coming home With the debris Mercy please Please take me home tonight, I don’t want to go home on my own And Desire has switched off her light All of the bars have been closed On a night that never should end Desire was still wearing her clothes When she left to go home with my friend Leaving me freezing cold In the rain. But the streets are alive Because drunks need to fight And it looks a lot like me Going home With the debris Mercy please Please take me home tonight, I don’t want to go home on my own And Desire has switched off her light…

Where did you go when you came back from Spain? I heard you’ve been missing the rain. You’ll need a guide if you go home tonight So deaf from the flood of your blood. Sailor, do you know where you’re heading? Sailor do you know where you’re going? Can you hear the sirens call…?