Balconies and cigarettes
Balconies and cigarettes; city lights on rain
Behind the weeping noise I hear the child
She calls my bluff and swings a violent dance
Scattering leaves in the city lights on rain
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Sanity and brevity
Sanctity and sin
Sobriety is tempted
Vanity is vain
Leverage and salvation
Balconies and wine
Cigarettes in water
The night is almost over
Balconies and cigarettes; midnight wine on grey
Pictures of the lies we tell in a language I don’t speak
This view I can forget before the night is over
Forgotten with the wine I will not drink
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BRIDGE:
Beyond the colours I can’t see; the shifting sand is final
As final as tomorrow; when tomorrow never comes
Wearing melancholy crowns with something less than pride
Saviours on the rooftops take coins from wishing wells
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