K2 - elbow

I’m imagining rippling fingers on keys

Miming it wild on a cold stone table

Picturing and wishing for home and jiggling my knees

Send an urgent cable

Dickhead’s done a runner and he’s wondering if anyone cares

Is the landing light on

Back to the pebbles that mum’s eggs hatched in

Give me her perfume, give me her prayers and advice

Hands up if you’ve never seen the sea

I’m from a land with an island status

Makes us think that everyone hates us, maybe darling they do

But they haven’t met you

They only know the villains at the tiller

And they gambled the farm on a headline, Jesus

Getting harder to see what they’re doing ‘til it’s done

And they’re never gonna make an arrest on Fleet Street

Yes and I’m given to believing in love

I’ve written the word in my blood

And I perch on a shelf of the K2

Made of the believers that love

Opens the fist just enough for a hand

To slip into the hand

I’ve been asleep in the woods with a mother to be

Planning on a static caravan in the Andes

Making a break with the steel magpie on the rise

Defeat in our time

Or do we meet on the street again due to the few?

Batter it out and refresh vendetta

Better surely to pause, consider the path

It’s full of blood, snot and teeth and the glory of no one

Hands up if you’ve never seen the sea

We’re from a place with an island status

Queuing round the corner for a pencil and paper again

Come the virus of virii

God send us to a digital end

With following strangers and swiping at friends

I’ll send you a postcard, see you in Hull

In a sweater made of Atacama llama wool

Yes and I’m given to believing in love

I’ve written the word in my blood

And I perch on a shelf of the K2

Made of the believers that love

Opens the fist just enough for a hand

To slip into the hand

Yes and I’m given to believing in love

I’ve written the word in my blood

I’ve seen it make a heaven of

Backstreet, bedsit and bomb site living room love

Opens the fist just enough for a hand

To slip into the hand

To slip into the hand