The Second Stephen

We were just three 26 year olds 
Sitting in a bar
I was daydreaming about being a star
And he said he might be Batman
That I might doubt it but he can
Make me believe
As he wipes his nose with his sleeve
And I was tickled by the games we play
As Rock Paper Scissors goes my way
And Sinéad is on my other side
She’s kind of the way I hide
My true heart from you
Coz I’m scared you might want to
Take this down below
And I’m a no show
When it comes to that
I just want you to love me back
As we talk about Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse
And I’m hearing the words just drop from your mouth
In a year from now
We’ll be in that age somehow
Coz we were all born on the 9-0
And I don’t want to wake up though
To you gone
And I’m drunk and so long
Rings in my head as I write an essay about you
Sinéad’s asleep and it’s a quarter past two
And I write your name on a bar mat
Coz I wanna remember you like that
And there’s no way I’ll see you again
But I catalogue a range of men
And you made the cut
I touched your hand and it was what
You didn’t say that led me on
And I’m singing my own song
As I reminisce and I might have cried
Coz there are people I’ve loved who’ve died
And it’s more than nothing just to know
You can love someone who let you go
And all I know is the Stillorgan Road
Is somewhere the traffic slowed
As it went by your house
And you live with your sister and your mouth
Looks inviting
But the in-fighting
In my brain pushes me away
I just want to remember you, okay
In two page and a half of semi slurred ink
Will be a reminder of someone that I think
Is pretty awesome cool
You’re even better than learning in school
All that I’ve come to be
I hope that you’re reunited with me
In some future dream
I grasp you and I pull a seam

Outta Nowhere

My heart won’t let me make a life with you
And it’s not because I don’t want to
It’s just because the ocean spans
The way he moves the music with his hands
The way he rustles leaves and trees
The way my faith always believes
In something I can’t hold onto
It’s choiceless freedom loving you