Ornament & Safeguard - Arthur Beatrice

Window wetter

All tarmac laying slick

Be found beneath some sort

Of public transport

Enormous ceramics

Stained as teeth

A country coming cold

Shows what I do as a woman

I do as a man

I howl for the heavens

To hear where I am

I’ve tried being clever

It’s given me hold nowhere

I’ve tried saying nothing

But I’m still there

Oh you may catch some drift

Be rolling down that dear

Slope which sees you piled up

And distant cleaner air

Or a tempered sweater

And trainers wearing thin

The so familiar sound

Of wailing when you’re asleep

What I do as a woman

I do as a man

I howl for the heavens

To hear where I am

I’ve tried being clever

It’s given me hold nowhere

I’ve tried saying nothing

But I’m still there

Oh the terrible fact is its closer

The end of the world as we’re older

Blow cover

There’s nothing for you to decide

Here, the time that we waste rubbing shoulders

Just wearing away years

Slow brother

Becoming the ones we deride

What I do as a woman

I do as a man

I howl for the heavens

To hear where I am

I’ve tried being clever

It’s given me hold nowhere

I’ve tried saying nothing

But I’m still there

But I’m still there

But I’m still there

What I do as a woman

I do as a man

I howl for the heavens

To hear where I am

I’ve tried being clever

It’s given me hold nowhere

I’ve tried saying nothing

But I’m still there

What I do as a woman

I do as a man

I howl for the heavens

To hear where I am

I’ve tried being clever

It’s given me hold nowhere

I’ve tried saying nothing

But I’m still there