The Thud and the Echo - Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds

All the dust is settled and the ambulance is gone

And people lean out windowsills and hum their tuneless songs

And yet that yellow smoke go curling up towards the sky

Where he climbed up to dive

I hear her calling out to me, she’s laying in the back

I’m laying in this vacant space beside these tired old tracks

And baby I’m not lazy, it’s just I turned out bad

I’m wasting all I had

And nothing’s changing that

But this time I’m gonna tell myself that this time I’m gonna change

Then I’ll turn around this time and do every goddamned thing the same

And as the sun goes setting on this one of my last days

I’ll just piss it away

And laugh about my fate

And dance on my own grave

Encourage slow decay

And stew in what I’ve made

And wonder at the taste

And pretend to walk away from days that leave me dazed and grey

And check my heart and realize the one thing that don’t sway

I love you more than anything.

I’m sorry I’m this way

But baby, I can’t change

And I never thought I’d fade