The Weight Of The Wind

the flashlight shot right through your flickering heartpeople's movements round you fall apartcackle out an ooze of sweat and laughterspin fasterlearn your eyes' distress from quietening gazesfind your swift ignition flare amazementa gutter ballroom to your feetlike raw meatthey move slowly - how they bore me, live so slowlyphosphor drowns in cigarettes breathless smokethe prince of tuesday nights he spoils his joketickle fancies till they scream in rapturemoisturei could never share your worldsuddenly it's too absurdsometimes even dance can limpsometimes your diction's stumbleingyour footsteps never kiss the cancelled rhythmsschismso here inside me it's all very quietdrifting like the wind in my scorched hairshifting like the winter through bald treesall my life i am tonightgrowing like a cramp in your right handthriving like the winter's divorced landfrustration leads to knowledgsburn your laughter mirthlessso here inside it's all rightruthless like the needle in my eyecutting deep like friends caught when they lieraging gives you knowledgspack the stars up mirthlessthe dancefloor cracks your bones and launches a laughthe dust creeps in your lungs and stutter coughsyour hand bursts open, hit by treacherous footstepssunsetyou move slowly - how you bore me, live so slowlyi move slowly - how i bore me, how i bore me