Subtraction

'Hide and Seek'

Where are we?
what the hell is going on?
the dust has only 
just begun to fall
Crop circles in the carpet
Sinking feeling


Spin me round again 
and rub my eyes
this can't be happening 
when busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy


Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first


oily marks appear on walls
where pleasure moments hung before 
the takeover
the sweeping insensitivity
of this
still life


Hide and seek
trains and sewing machines
Blood and tears
They were here first


mm what d'ya say? 
that you only meant well, well of course you did
this it's all for the best, of course it is
that it's just what we need, you decided this?
what did you say?


Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid sweet talk newspaper word cut outs
Speak no feeling no I don't believe you
you don't care a bit 

I'm so scared.
Scared to succeed.
It seems like it's all on me.
I got what I asked for.
Won't quit.

Face full of nervous ticks.
The weight of the world
on a high wire act.
the last leaf clinging to the branch
as autumn turns me over and over again.
I just want you to call.

And say you're sorry.
Then I'll say I'm sorry too.
But I don't want to be the first.
Because I'm scared you'll laugh.
I don't think I could put myself back together again.

High and low.
Ebb and flow.
Walking 'til morning.
Feeling for home.
That's all I want.
That's all I want.
That's all I want.