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Selfish Bachelor (2013)
03:17
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Selfish Bachelor
I don’t have a wife
and I don’t have a husband.
I don’t have any children I know of.
I don’t have a life
and I don’t have a band anymore,
or many friends to speak of.
I’ve had too much time just pleasing myself;
Now I am too stuck to please anybody else.
I’m a selfish bachelor
with only myself to blame
for another night slumped on the sofa,
but I do know being loved,
like I know being alone.
I was free to do anything,
so I didn’t know where to begin.
You try to take it all in
and you wind up with nothing,
but I do know being loved like I know being alone.
I get up when I want to,
eat breakfast in my dressing gown.
We can’t all be as glamorous as you.
Put jokes in the chorus
to make it less serious,
but the pay-off line always rings true.
I don’t have a wife
and I don’t have a husband.
I don’t have any children I know of.
I don’t have a life
and I don’t have a band anymore,
but I’ve got all these songs.
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In Bloom (2013)
03:13
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In Bloom
The wisteria's finally bloomed
in the dream as I walk home
on the last day
of the last term
of the year.
The estates are well groomed,
springtime in South London.
Thoughts turn to the summer before.
Once I kissed the most beautiful I've ever seen.
How could a mind be quite so unlike the body in which it resides.
All the years with nothing and no one
rewarded and then some.
I was all set to give up and go.
And you know, cos I told you over and over
on that first sweet night in my room.
Once I kissed the most beautiful I've ever seen.
How could a moment be quite so unlike the life in which it resides.
But there's always one still in thrall while the other one pulls away.
I'm the bicycle thrown on the ground at the end of a long evening's play.
I'm the bicycle left on the pavement at the end of a perfect day.
You doubted me when I said I'd always want you.
Well it's a year on now.
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Our Lovely Afternoon
I am baffled and envious that our lovely afternoon
was not all that unusual to you,
not something you’re going to need again and again.
I’m too far gone, and so ready to have waited all along
for someone I am overwhelmed to be with,
to while away this funny time of day with, again.
It just feels right, like you’re someone I’ve always known.
Don’t send me back on my own.
But I knew halfway through the afternoon, I wouldn’t see you again.
Like I knew in the quiet of my room, I had to see you again.
I want to see you again.
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Between Eros and Agape
When you always want that which doesn’t want you by definition,
you are screwed.
When you always try to catch the eye that would sooner be left alone,
you’re doomed.
Strung out between Eros and Agape,
I never find them in the same place.
As the perfect line shimmies into place
there’s a moment when the longed-for embrace
seems a little less like the be all and the end all.
But as a pretty melody besieges you with its fingernails,
it never fails to remind you of the petty hopes that rise and fall endlessly.
On my first date in four years
a young man told me I was
the most unsociable socialist he’d ever known
(in all his twenty-three years!)
and how really he was looking for someone more his own age
but would I like to see him again anyway?
What could I say?
If no one’s on your side,
I am.
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