Shoulder Charge - Jesca Hoop, Lucius

I’ve been going through something quietly, so quietly

Nobody knows my trouble, nobody knows

I dress myself for city streets

These leathers shield my sadness

So nobody sees, nobody sees

Nobody sees me, nobody sees

Nothing, not my skin

Keeps out from in

I came out of this world

Not in to this world

I rehearse my hello’s, «Hello, hello»

To refined deceit

And head out to meet a friend for coffee

Armoured in mascara

I hit the street and join the sea

Of islands walking the island

All of their stories underneath

In currents of unconscious

Driven by deep water

Heads above the water

Barely above the water

Nothing, not my skin

Keeps out from in

I came out of this world

Not into this world

Nothing knows a finishing

Where nothing begins

I came out of this world

Not into this world

Not from outside this world

Out of this world, out of this world

Out of this world, out of this world

I live as the world

If I told you what’s been really going on

Surely I’d have lost your love

There was no one I could trust to understand

Something so personal

But at the station, in a moment

Of sonder on the platform

Standing shoulder

To shoulder, to shoulder

To shoulder, to shoulder charge

Standing shoulder to shoulder

To shoulder to shoulder charge

I found myself holding the thread

That I might trust a friend

That we might just all be in this together

Empathy’s contagious

We gathered 'round a spring fed well

What a tale to tell

And what a fucking relief

That nothing one can go through

Has not been shared by two

Nothing one can go through

Has not been shared by two

Nothing, not my skin

Keeps out from in

I came out of this world

Not into this world

Nothing knows a finishing

Where nothing begins

I came out of this world

Not into this world

Not from outside this world

Out of this world, out of this world

Out of this world, out of this world

Out of this world

I live as the world

Out of this world, out of this world

Out of this world, out of this world

Out of this world, out of this world

Out of this world, out of this world