I think you changed when you fell in love I think you lost some of your pain I think you wore your pain like a badge of honour I think you think it gave you strength I think you hated her for making you happy A sad young man is far more intriguing Your poetry lost all of its sadness You made do with smiles instead of weeping I think you left her...Learn More

Let’s kill the ones we love Let’s put them in the ground So they can never hurt us They can never let us down Let’s make martyrs of our lovers Oh they look so good in black And I’ll wear the veil forever I was never one for tact We’ll sing Nick Cave at the coffin side "Death Is Not The End" Throw parties of remembrance For our late departed...Learn More

I used to wonder where you were when you were looking out the door I used to wonder what it takes to bring a man like you home I can’t be quiet like an empty house, but I used to try I can’t be cold like an empty house, but I used to try We’re all figuring out what it means to come home We’re all figuring out what it means to be loved And I don’t...Learn More

When I dream, I picture myself walking long, long halls The sun has set, everyone I love is safe, every door I come to is closed They tell us broken boys are beautiful, they will be mended with gold Touch their scars like ribbons, they are as soft as me on a bad day My feet make no sound, my breath is silent, in – out – slow My hands are heavy, I...Learn More

You tell me that you think I’m pretty but I don’t really hear the words cause the music is quite loud - you put your hand on my back, you lead me to the bathroom - I don’t know what you were planning but now the ushers stopped you Here come the drums on the record on the mixing desk and the DJ is getting it wrong again and again and I think you...Learn More

You and your beautiful things You and your beautiful eyes You and your music No stranger to beauty You and your beautiful things You and your beautiful hands You, pouring the drinks As the universe expands I wish I could hold onto the gentle in you To remind you that it’s there The night you sang to me as I slept You have never been as beautiful...Learn More

There’s a box of packing materials In the middle of my living room floor Guess what? I didn’t order it and I don’t know who sent it And it feels a little like a cosmic joke How much worry can fit in a cardboard box Twelve by ten by eight? And how much does it cost to send a cardboard box Carrying so much weight? The irony is the amount of space...Learn More

You’ve got Eliot on the phone, he says he knows how you've been feeling How you’re infinitely gentle even when you're suffering I look out of the library window, I see the room reflected back The steam from my tea reveals words on the cold glass The valley tempts me downwards, but the train will take me home You are the only thing pulling me...Learn More

That hopeful little twin of mine That hopeful twin of mine Everyday we wake up at the same time But only one of us can get out of bed on the right side She wears a lot of masks that twin of mine She knows exactly what you like And she’s such a fucking teacher’s pet And that really makes me sick Because she really thinks that she can change the...Learn More

Four out of twenty-six ain’t bad This could be a list of my favourite words Today I am pulling apart my notebooks I’m looking for the poems that got stuck between the pages Today I am poetry in a two-chord melody Cause I’m a fuck up in a dress, yeah I’m your best friend at best At worst I could be a friend with benefits, without that many benefits...Learn More