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down for your touch
05:26
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She -
Just from the pronoun you know how I lean
Fourteen, fifteen
Every girl was the girl of my dreams
Her name was Louise
Brown hair, brown eyes,
Kawaii thigh-highs
She was having two guys on the sly
Like a pretty planet with
Two moons in the sky
Let me watch the Earth-rise
From my satellite
Were you his or were you mine?
Didn't give a shit at the time
I was so fucking shy
You had to tell me to take off my tie
Blazer, razor-sharpened spit
What the fuck? she's on my lips
You were a rocket-ship ride
Gravity of our descent made me cry
But no good-byes in my messages
Just cut each other off like permission slips
And I wonder if you ever really missed
The scruffy blond boy that you taught how to kiss
Down for your touch
Down for your touch
Down for your touch
But I want too much
Light my fuse and I'll blow up
I'll blow up, watch me blow up
Annabel, in my head you were famous
Golden-age silent actress on the screen of my mind kind of famous
But I couldn't say this 'cause I'd be betraying the love that I made with my real date
Fucking you was a make-believe escape
Fantasy I couldn't shake
Well, it's too late to sit in cafés
And let out my repressed feelings
Over a steaming cup of Darjeeling
Look at the ceiling and wish we could strip in the evening
Take a trip to a land where morality's stripped of all meaning
'cause lust is a mist, a maze
Hallucinogenic haze
Clouding the brain through bittersweet days
Annabel, Annabel, Annabel you'd be amazed
'Cause I'm down for your touch
Down for your touch
Down for your touch
But I want too much
Light my fuse and I'll blow up
I'll blow up, watch me blow up
Ivy in the sacred grove
where winter-bitten love is grown
I was so long on my own
I never thought I'd call another body home
But a girl with a pixie cut and her long-sleeved shirt buttoned up
She stole the show
Couldn't have known
Valentine, we perfectly rhyme
Slip a note under your door and run away like I just committed a crime
That was our kind of vibe
If you hand-write, it's not easy to lie
It was too easy to lie together
When our fingers found the spaces in between each other's
I held the whole world in my hands
The whole world I could understand
King and queen of our own sweet land
Bask in the sun of my bedside lamp
Her back to me, spooning,
Makes me go loony
Mad as the moon and I'm in love truly
Didn't always go smoothly
I wasn't a romantic lead from a movie
There were times you wished I would speak
And times you wished you could mute me
I could never compute you
Peer in your head and it's all translucent
Funny how the person you know the best
Can still be a stranger stranded in bed
Her back to me, silent,
Remote like an island,
Dark as the moon
And it's awfully quiet
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2. |
SHONA
03:01
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I was always a loner
It's not just corona
Then I met Shona (hey)
Now I want to moan her name
Fringe is the colour of copper
Like change - redder than rage
Auburn like autumn
When leaves change,
They take on her shade
What did she make of my braids?
Probably thought I was gay
I don't know -
I am just figuring out how I look, okay?
If people don't like it
Then that is the price of
Individuality that I am willing to pay
I was always a loner
It's not just corona
Then I met Shona (hey)
Now I want to moan her name
Scarlet jacket and blue jeans
Magnet attract and seduce me
Green is the colour of envy
Someone else captured your attention
Boy that you came in the entrance with (Who?)
The one that you get kinda friendly with (Oh)
Pretend that I'm not interested (I am)
Tonight who are you gonna spend it with? (Not me)
Not me
Fall in love
For a day
Someone to
Dream about
On a Great Western train
On a Great Western train
It's nice to know my heart hasn't failed
It's nice to know my heart hasn't failed
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3. |
co;in;ci;dence;
04:04
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Unemployed, voluntary work
I live slowly, down to earth
Calm is the currency I earn
What job is my time worth?
Tea for two, milk, no sugar, I see
That's how you stay thin and wiry
Like a pylon, tights like nylon
A bony shoulder to cry on
It's quiet - you're a shy one
And I don't like staying silent
You're a new face, I'm excited
Tell me about yourself, surprise me
You can tell I'm not from around here
Far from home in the home counties
Couple words in and you know by my accent
I flew the nest and I crash-landed
Everyone's assuming
That I came here to be a student
Yeah, I came here to be a student of
Life - everyone's my tutor
Enough about me
What about you? You talk like me
Active politically
So I chat shit about my old MP
You interrupt: "He's my MP!"
What? The same MP?
One chance in 650?
Okay, this is freaky
Where'd you grow up? Go to school?
Don't tell me, it's my old school
Three years above me, that's all
Coincidence, impossible
Your face and hair, I don't recall
From glancing across the assembly hall
Memories plentiful
Convo suspenseful
I'm giggling, so surreal
Giddy, wild-eyed, I'm just thrilled
Like a cheesy rom-com film
But I have no script and blanks to fill
You lived a couple of streets away
Walking distance for a decade
Years and the length of the country
passed us by so we could meet today
Haven't the faintest what to say
Crack a smile and wave
Two needles finally finding each other in the hay
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4. |
waste!
03:55
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Don't wanna know how many boys you slept with
That number is a weapon
Straight through my chest and
Bang bang I'm a jealous ex, y, z
3D lines in my face etched
By the absence of your grace
Hug the covers tight, there's still empty space
Six months lacking your embrace
Six months knowing I'm to blame
What a waste, what a waste, what a waste
I cried and wrote you a long letter
Not known at this address, return to sender
I got it back and I could send it again
But I know better, I know better
I don't know anyone better than you at affection
How can I choose from an empty selection?
Trick question
Don't picture me as a victim
I'm the rotting carcass of a pigeon
Flattened by a Citroen
Look in its eyes and feel pity
But at least it won't be shitting on
Anyone, anymore
My good friends scrape me up off the floor
'cause my good friends get me
Worse than death is if you forget me
Am I a bad memory?
Long ago, like a lost century
Closed museum doors, no entry
I'd fall right back in if you let me
So don't let me, don't let me
Make someone else feel electric
and you're so wet
That's how sparks fly
On a dark night
I can sense it
Are you contented?
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5. |
maybe,
04:00
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Maybe the way we got back together was too rapid
Talk into the night but we sleep on a different mattress
Softly holding you between my fingers like you're fabric
Maybe I got out of the habit
Long distance feels like a marathon (you said)
Picture of me faded in your head (you said)
Want to be free as a bird
Free of my burdens of lead
With someone exciting instead
Who will dance on the ground that I fear to tread
Hurt so much
But I know what she meant
Maybe virtual affection's too hard to imagine
When you're disconnected it's like who turned off the magic?
Silent like an attic
Screaming like the traffic
Maybe it's the rain but I'm feeling kind of tragic
Is that all?
End the call
You're free to go, I'm still enthralled
to the void left by your shadow growing on my wall
Like mould it crawls and climbs
Imperceptibly over time
Took me a few months to cry
And tears take years to dry
Permanent
Not just giving you up for Lent
Not just skipping a month of rent
Have to move out of each other's heads
Changing address
Still stay chained to my desk
Till I pay my student debt
You were worth it, but I'll never forget
I was always a guest
Withdraw
I sit and draw
Breath
Into my chest, drawers, dress
I wanna cruise like a whore
Date and then fuck and then fucking ignore
Isn't that the how the cool kids get it all?
Liberated individuals
Connect to the grid just to pull
Out the plug 'cause I'm invisible
Pull out the plug 'cause I'm invisible
Pull out the plug 'cause I'm invisible
Pull out the plug 'cause I'm invisible
I'm invisible
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hyperpenelope Gateshead, UK
Imagine if Sophie and Wiley both supplied genetic material to a top-secret experiment designed by the Nutty Professor Richard D. James. Which then catastrophically failed and was hushed up. I can neither confirm nor deny that I am what escaped from the test tube. ... more
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