Acts Of Man Lyrics

Four hundred bones, crumpled in bed I’m the only one who knows that you’re still breathing Beneath the blanket, of another French death This afternoon is one I will be keepi...Read Full Lyrics

I have a long list of tepid disappointments It doesn’t mention you And if I'm honest your name could be upon it If this didn’t feel so good In an otherwise disappointing ...Read Full Lyrics

All our secrets are smothered in dirt, underneath paving stones Lying waiting to be told Some stay hidden, while some get found Like our long lost soul, like a stone beneath the...Read Full Lyrics

Okay stop Okay start And please me, I don't care how Stop me and please me now Oh, with your mouth Big bad ate in a prison room He's just itching to telephone you Oh, with his mou...Read Full Lyrics

Clean out your mouth this is not what it’s for There’s still a bloodstain from the spill of the war Pick up your sorrow this is not who we are I won’t cry, uncle having co...Read Full Lyrics

It's Boxing Night I celebrate in style Boxer shorts and spirits floor littered with ghosts of bottles past There's a naked hush Hold only a breath and a pulse Of a heart that was ...Read Full Lyrics

I am not myself I am A broken boxer stuffed with glass and sand This is now how health should feel Songs sung from the lungs of the elderly I'm dead now, check my chest and y...Read Full Lyrics

It was dawn. And the kitchen light was still on I stepped in, found the suicide asleep on the floor An open mouth, screams and makes no sound Apart from the ring of the tinnitus...Read Full Lyrics

December’s traditions Suck the last of summer from our cheeks Draw the curtains, strip the trees In so-called living rooms Scottish pastimes come to roost Love’s labour st...Read Full Lyrics

I need to find somebody who can tear me away From the car crying babies and switchblade days The bark of the unemployment hounds And the thought of the thick, white skull on the...Read Full Lyrics