Category: Lyrics H – N

No Closure

N0 Closure

On the forecourts of French libraries
From Reignac to Marseilles
The rain rattles small cars,
Clouds drape over backseats
I am a photograph in your satchel
Between a paperback and cigarettes
I am the dead bird on the gravel
Neck snapped from last night’s Northwesterly

But no peace, no closure
But no peace, no closure

Beside these roads that halt like jetties
Beneath circling murders are leafless trees
Drowning at the knees
Some burnt to the fingertips
And here my tracks sink, end, return
As I walked in and out of you
And here my tracks sink, end, return
As I walked in and out of you

But no peace, no closure
But no peace, no closure

Driving back through the town
The road map-pinned by Pharmacie signs winking up-road
The cars slice the afternoon with a guillotine slush
As it bleeds into a night peppered by stars and planes to Japan
And the changing of gears jilts the cats from the walls
The truth lives with you
The truth lives with you

But no peace, no closure
But no peace, no closure
But no peace, no closure
But no peace, no closure

 

 

(Lyrics – GA Johnson)

Never It Will Be The Same Again

Never It Will Be The Same Again 

What I came to miss has no name. I can only try to describe. As a young man it felt as though I perfectly mirrored the sky. When it rained, I rained. When it was grey, I was grey. And when the sun came out, I came out of myself as if I were shedding a skin and stepping into a new beautiful world : my whole chemistry, seasonally affective. And I paid much more attention to the sky than I do these days. There just seemed to be more sky. And its clouds passed through me and its rain was absorbed deep into my skin. And its snow settled on my heart. What I came to miss has no name. I can only try to describe. When a boy, I ran home over fields as it turned dark; my heart beating in my mouth after some almighty adventure. And the sky ran after me. And its clouds, like grey eagles, wings outstretched, clawed. And this was my fear of the impending night: what I felt within, turned inside out and mirrored in the sky. And mirrored in the sky. Turned inside out and mirrored in the sky. Turned inside out and mirrored in the sky. Turned inside out and mirrored in the sky.

 

(Words – GA Johnson)

Night Of The Hunter

Night Of The Hunter

It’s the night of the hunter
It’s the night of the long knives
It’s the night of the hunter
And you can justify all that you like
Sleep tight, this snowy night,
For Spring, you will never see again
Say goodbye to your awful wives
Bid farewell to your awful friends

I’m twenty steps from the jugular
I’m twenty steps from the death
I’m twenty steps from the funeral
I’m twenty steps from your last breath
The shadow falls on the abbatoir gates
As you leave with the stench on your hands
I am here with a cigarette bait
I am here to asphyxiate

It’s the night of the hunter
It’s the night of the long knives
It’s the night of the hunter
And you can justify all you like
The laugh you spew on the landscape
As you erase it of the gentle hare
Will be your last on this landscape
Will be your last anywhere

Matador, bear baiter, butcher, hare courser, value your life while you can

 

(Lyrics – GA Johnson)

Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction

I’ve got the snow on my side
I’ve got no doubts about that
And though this city grows wider
I always know where I’m at
I got your letter this morning
I know you mean what you say
And though the stations are closed down
I’ve got to get away

I’m somewhere off the compass
I’m somewhere lower than hell
And when you say you’re beyond this
I say, “I’ve been there as well”

 

(Lyrics – GA Johnson)

The Last Engineer

The Last Engineer

I feel alone in the city
I feel alone in the crowd
I try to listen to reason
But the city’s too loud
I took my heart to a doctor
He took one look in my eyes
He told me hearts may be broken
But the love never dies

I tried to follow my father
He was the last engineer
But they’d closed all the factories
And his steps disappeared
I thought I’d follow the train lines
But it started to rain
And everything looked clearer then
Everything was in its place

 

 

(Lyrics – GA Johnson)