I still remember the laughter of Doireann Fox Or the way Macken undid all the locks The way the hills just cascade With the joy of the girl they’ve saved And I got full high on the scene But I was kicking it with a wonder dream As everything is fluorescent light The vibrant colours to ignite What I saw in a storm And when the air is heavy you get warm But it’s too close in stifling heat The crack of lightning at my feet The year Deirdre broke my heart Took everything, tore it apart And left me reeling for an age So I took refuge on the page As I transcribed a degree of hell Like Taylor Swift and All Too Well In monuments to that time I collapsed and all was fine So I woke up to the day The light within that cannot stay Coz it can’t go anywhere The sheet of me that it tear Until I grow to realise What is behind each pair of eyes And Ciara is a steady hand She looks at me and I am grand Coz she so deeply understand The winter that I had not planned Or Sinéad in rocks and stone With her I am not alone As she regaled what was said It’s all just torment in my head The firing cinders, the blistering heat The feeling that I cannot meet Even one more day of time Then I blinked out of what was mine And into a sunshine that will brew It all reflects the heart of you Into ever deepening soul The school of cool as the waves roll
He got a dial on the rotary blade
And he claimed he knew how to save
But he sent me to some kind of hell
Then forbade me to ever tell
The story of how our love was made
He put the darkness into the shade
Of the sun that just shines on me
Or from within the holy sea
In the forests he was found
And I can't bear to hear the sound
Of what forever whispered that night
He asked me if I was alright
So I proceeded to spill the secret soul
Then he panicked and the whole
Was exiled to the far reaches of the kingdom
So far away he won't even sing them
As a lullaby to his pain
The clouds were too apt to rain
Upon the land
That used to be sand
To hold my feet
As they walked to the place where we meet
In between the intersection
Of my silence and his rejection
Of all that could ever be
What is the meaning of the word free
One of us comes
The other one goes
I wear the pants
He just knows
And we found love
Where it can dance
Did you take a breath
Or a second chance
On the money
Or off the floor
What is it about love
That we adore
Coz you're summer
I'm winter
We're a cyclical thing
And I know it's real
When I hear the bell ring
And we lift off
The ground is below
The air is free
But do you go
When I open my heart
And pour out my wounds
I didn't think the end
Would come so soon
And you're looking past me
Into the sky
What's it about love
That will neither live nor die
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