Concrete Pigeon - Sound of Rum

Pause timing, doors sliding

What if life been different?

Tongue strike back at the sky to fork lightning

The knife slides right in between shoulder blades from

Older mates who only phone to say they’re going out fighting

How difficult has life been?

Man, that’s all relatives

Like wedding dancefloors, when it’s last orders

You’ll find him strangling a pint like he’s trying to find life in

The very thing that is killing him, filling his mind’s violence

The fires in his iris are evident, delicate sediment settles

As evidence each morning in the corner of worn eyelids

And as that first ever worse bite of sunlight finds him

He turns child and tries hiding

I saw her walking past me on New Cross Road

With a face I know from mirrors

Another girl with the same demons to deliver

I got that feeling in my liver

The magnetism of the apparition

She thinks the same but she dresses different

Imprisoned in time with a glitch in her mind

Viciously sinking its teeth in her spine

Run from ourselves but there’s nowhere to hide

Come face to face beneath flickering lights

We are the same but with different lives

Always separate, always together

Once something’s begun, it is begun forever

Once something is done, it has always been done

Once something is lost, it can never be won

Run hold, gun smoke, puff puff until his lungs broke

Young joke turned hum drum old joke no hope bloke

Rolling drum between his thumb and his index finger

Lingering visions of daughter

Last time he saw her, she was a stranger sat waiting

Well now she’s sat at the station

I seen her through dirty train windows, all agitation

Wind blows cigarette smoke, she looks ready to fight

Shoulder oppressed by the weight of the

Night life flies by like a concrete pigeon, liver spotted hands

Dismissing the wishes of friends who wish him to listen

Tell him he’s pissing his life away

Like he don’t know, the chip on his shoulder won’t go

The sun shines high but he stays low like a broken yo-

«Yo!»

but she didn’t hear me, still I shouted on regardless

Aware that I was slipping out, out of reality’s dark harness

Fourth dimension surfing

Through the turbulence of turning corners

Bumping into other me’s

Walking 'round inches in front of me

Behind, beside and under he wonders how the thunder crumbles

Numbness, crunching numbers, corporate lunches

How did it ever become the sum of his parts was half his circumference?

A circle working under a cloud

Attached to the weak string of his old dreams

But now she’s haunted by could-have-been's

Flash back to the hooded teens

Kicking her life into gutters and slipping

Hidden and smothered by all her ambition

Drinking and hitting but wishes he didn’t

Fingertips gripping the hideous rhythm

The city she lives in filled her with suspicion

Gripping the letters he wishes he’d written

His mind is a prison

Night’s unforgiving

Left hand’s numb but the right won’t listen

Stifle traditions

Spite is a given

Blind lead the blind in the fight for the kingdom

Fighting for pittance

Life’s ambition, grass grows 'til you clip it dickhead

I could’ve been anything what I am’s written

In the dark I embark on a mission

I could’ve been a lot of things, I stopped to think

That’s when I dropped my drink and i spilt over the floor

I was confronted by all that before I didn’t see

There are different me’s for every possibility

Worse and better me’s, smaller and bigger me’s

But every future has a history

I could’ve been a lot of things

Forgotten where the rotten sing

Another grey face on the train

Day to day, playing for the lottery

I could’ve been a leader

Carved a path with the things I’d written

Except I mostly hate the words that leave my mouth

Straight after I spit them

Me too, she could’ve been so much more, they said

That’s when they shook their heads

They don’t know the things that I sacrificed

How I’d given my life for the raps I write

Glad with every molecule that I lived the life that I wanted to

All I could ever be is me, as it’s been and it’ll always be

I could’ve been a father raised a life to leave a mark

But I couldn’t get past my old man’s face sat there in the dark

I could’ve been a saint, the outline of a man to stencil

But they told me early on I’d never realize my potential

So now she’s kicking her life into gutters and slipping

Hidden and smothered by all her ambition

Drinking and hitting but wishes he didn’t

Fingertips gripping the hideous rhythm

The city she lives in filled her with suspicion

Gripping the letters he wishes he’d written

His mind is a prison

Night’s unforgiving

Left hand’s numb but the right won’t listen

Stifle traditions

Spite is a given

Blind lead the blind in the fight for the kingdom

Fighting for pittance

Life’s ambition, grass grows 'til you clip it dickhead