from a collection entitled "Cry Me A River"
You swirled into my coffee shop and my life last summer
Though you'd long since turned the rope for my heart to skip it's beat
Way back in the misty retreat of the heat of 2009
Esporta and Lime
My memory begs;
Lord save us! Who's that girl with the legs!?
Is she English or Asian ? Is she human? Can she be true?
I don't know her but I do
I'm at the mercy of her movements
Her flashes of electric blue
My knees give way when she looks
I daren't say 'Hi'
Maybe she's just passing by
But last year in Costa I offered a seat
And we danced out our introductions
The way tomorrows lovers greet
A light in the darkest of my days
You shone yet I couldn't see you
Later, we sat in my flat
Me on the sofa
You long-legged on the floor and we complained bitterly of our ex's
Me on the sofa
You long-legged on the floor and we complained bitterly of our ex's
Anna this
Chris that
We stumbled heady on booze from your rickety bedsit to the Jackalope in Chorlton
We kissed and fumbled but we were troubled
Later....
Bliss!
Days on end in bed. My angel, hand on heart, I said
You declared your love and we strolled the quays, me poetic rapping. You on your knees
Cafe Rouge. Back row of the cinema. Pizza on the plaza
Long summer breeze
Us new lovers. Learning how to kiss
Yet still I couldn't see you
I hit therapy and I hit out at you
For all of the things in my past
Projecting my fears and pain onto our fragile canvas
You poor thing
And we moved apart
Then in July or August you moved in
To my block
And our chaotic boat again began to rock to the harbour-locked swell of our love
Mine that I still couldn't or wouldn't show
Yours all on your sleeve. Given freely in one go
Yet still I couldn't see you
My psychotic rage withering your love away
Burning another page in the book of our story
Of our fantastic star-crossed potential glory
Until finally you left
And found a true gent who is my world apart
I live in anger
He in The Heart
Your heart now
We are what was
What once nearly was
Goodbye my love
And all since I never manned up and saw you, held you, loved you, gave myself to you
All because
I couldn't see you
I couldn't see how happy you made me
I couldn't see how
I needed to love you right now
