Long Dead - Holding Patterns

Dust keeps settling

On instruments retired in empty homes

Silence deafening

Strings collecting memories on their own

Long dead live-wire

An ember in a room gone so cold

Rebuild the fire

You’re the fuel to throw the spark into

We’ll hold you up

My seatbelt snapped

My head is cracked

Floating flames of all these maps

Your brilliant eyes

The shocks and kicks

I’d do anything for and almost did

Adjusting the ground

The endless shift

The battered and bleak

The broken down

The endless hours of boarded doors

We wander around

Always the enemy

Misguided impressions

Of the loneliest thoughts

Decode the apathy

Disregard it

Discard it

Electrify us

The customary hours

With pastels, chalks and paints

And with them my friend

What got you there?

Your glasses were smashed

The table stared

And I’ve been dying to say

My seatbelt snapped

My head is cracked

Floating flames of all these maps

Your brilliant eyes

The shocks and kicks

Adjusting the ground

To endless shifts

We’ll hold you up regardless

We’ll hold you up