Out With A Whimper - Laura Stevenson

Tell me you can’t

Swear I’ll go peaceful

I’m backing up out as you speak

Hands in the air

I am steady no temper moves

Cool on the floor of yours

Get gone

Say want you gone and so long

Say won’t you stop and I’ll stop

If you stay where you are

Then I’ll never fault you

Cause static is blurred black and white

And you go to work while I try

To find something

Nobody wants it

Nobody wants it for long

I’m the one that you thought

Was your ticket out of here

We’ll buy a car with a million miles on it

I’ll dig it out of the snow

And we’ll set alarms and breakfast while it’s dark

I will slow down and flicker and fall

Into a life

Into a life unlike this one with its balding tires

And heads because we’re tired of spending our time

On a dream that’s been dying

Our reasons for charging

Receding and aging

Is feeding on me and you hate me complaining

But honestly where would I be in a year

We are here

While we’re here

But I fear we’re not here while we’re here

We’ll eat and we’ll shit and we’ll drink and we’ll piss

And I’ll only auld lang syne when the year changes