Concrete Statement - David Thomas Broughton

Some concrete statement

Such jellied, opaque promises will be nothing come the sun

Your tatty cloth remarks are never sewn into anything that I can wear

Tatty cloth remarks are never sewn into anything I can wear

Spend a long time waiting for some hard-boiled words

Some concrete statement

Such jellied, opaque promises will be nothing come the sun

Your tatty cloth remarks are never sewn into anything that I can wear

I can be relied upon to jump at other chances

I can be relied upon to jump at other chances

Just as you’re relied upon to offer no advances

Shingle underfoot, the wind it bites on empty beaches

The salted spray pecks at your face and you screw up your features

The sun spits out of rolling grey and lights the sky on the horizon

I struggle with the concepts that you spread on our conversation

The sun spits out of rolling grey and lights the sea on the horizon

I struggle with the concepts that you spread on our conversation

I can be relied upon to jump at other chances

Just as you’re relied upon to offer no advances

Ju—

Ju—

Ju—

Just as you’re relied upon

I can be relied upon to

I can be relied upon to

And I can be relied upon

To jump at other chances

To jump at other chances

Just as you’re relied

I can be relied upon to jump at other chances

Just as you’re relied upon to offer no advances

Shingle underfoot, the wind it bites on empty beaches

The salted spray pecks at your face and you screw up your features

The sun spits out of rolling grey and lights the sea on the horizon

I struggle with the concepts that you spread on our conversation

Now that you can hold

Now that you can hold

Now that you