Pages of Yesterday

Lights

There’s a key beside your secret annex

And if you told me what’s next

Fill me up with treasure lost in time

And remember what you lost I’ll find

Spin in tea cups dizzy music

Find my eyes when they reverse

Lost in verse and rhythm splashes

Drowning us in wonderland

Curse the hole we fell down

And smother me in crumpet clauses

Picture me a fainted tune

And dance me slowly late in June

Find me crucified on a mountain

Falling down in a stricken pose

Landing safely on a statue

That turned to green when painted gold

I have a way of keeping you all on my own*

Bound to my wrists you struggle violent

And when I leave you turn to stone

And when you leave I turn to silence

I had hate then but the king has been overthrown*

Piling our excuses like bodies broken

And when I leave you turn to stone

And when you leave I wish I’d spoken

And I am sleeping sound; the light is too hard to beat*

So hide the lights that shine on me

You jump from the castle and land on your feet

And you run when I ask you to cut me free

And I am keeping now, the strength I need to push me*

But you push me hard when I haven’t asked to fall

And you run when I ask you to cut me free

You close your ears when you hear the trumpets call

You hide the lights that save me, you’ve thrown the stone*

And now I’m bleeding in the corner all on my own

The beggars have come to feed off my bones

You tell me this is how it will feel if I am alone

You shine it while I’m gone*

Stars melt in a pool around you

You cradle me on broken stones

And tell me how my envied dreams aren’t true

I tell myself that I am not strong*

And you remind me there is no lie in that

The villagers let me know you are wrong

But your thrown is where I lay at

And dream when you’re gone*

Remind me of your precious jewels

Cascading from the dawn

Bathing in your poison pools

Noises hide within my head*

Telling me the castle is crumbled scone

But I’d much rather be dead

Then build a house all on my own

Touch your skin, hope you’re still breathing*

You tell me to fight without you

But my reflection looks deceiving

You say and stop believing

and I think back to when you slept next to me*

breathing in your mistaken kisses

buried under snowy sheets

the open gate closing up on me

There’s a key beside your secret annex

A place locked away, the only time I felt safe

*allude to Lights by Ellie Goulding