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Papa

by Luke De-Sciscio

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1.
The Weather 05:56
No pattern of mine is gonna cut through your time like a light from the blue Seem to cycle like a dime round these spirals in my mind You’re soft as feathers Can’t be tethered No sense regretting You’re simple as the weather When it rains you feel safe to cry When the sun comes out you wonder how you ever question When it’s grey you don’t mind that it’s grey all the time You wouldn’t mind if it never broke I wonder if it’s that you’re too scared to hope And in the dark you just close your eyes Wait for the weather to make up your mind Wait for the clouds to tell you which way to go Is it you is it you is it you is it you that you know? Oh, you’re a sensitive mess A tentative curse A delicate force A conjuring word The mile you quit The time you conspired The wish that you made The death where you smile The priest in the coven The lark in the trench The bun in the oven The lingering stench A push from behind The time that you cried The bounce on the pavement That made the girls smiles You’ve light on your face You’re picking up static I lost where I was And started to panic A courteous kiss An unravelling mask The shadows that dance When you turn your back Behind closed doors Where the pretty girl snores And the vision you’re craving adores something you lack Is it you is it you is it you is it you that you lack? When it rains you feel safe to cry When the sun comes out you wonder how you ever question When it’s grey you don’t mind that it’s grey all the time You wouldn’t mind if it never broke I wonder if it’s that you’re too scared to hope And in the dark you just close your eyes Wait for the weather to make up your mind Wait for the clouds to tell you which way to go Is it you is it you is it you is it you that you show?
2.
Tentative I lend my hand Sometimes I forget where my skin ends Quivering you are the plant The insights of a heart I left a mirror on the ledge in the corridor The lightness humiliates the stars You I caught walking there You were smiling at the insights Soon the breathless will chastise Prior arranged the balance You can’t go on forever I’ll confess if you confess Who’d have tried to stop me One eternity to undress Honey I want you both ways The insights of a heart Drinking away the moonbeams Dark secrets do not haunt me I think that makes you filthy Left them so long they sprouted Hokusai and the Impaler The art of you and the grain You can run your fingers down me You can light me up with insights Drinking away the moonbeams The insights of a heart You and I in sheets of paper The insights of a heart
3.
I will be a houseplant reaching for your hand You will be the weather raining on the land I will be a ripple someone surfs You will be the sunbeam tumbling to the Earth But if you are a bob cat Who has me in their sight I wont hesitate If you recognise me If you let me I'd love you then too I already I will be a french girl platting my hair You will be a jew Think about me when you pray You will be a birdsong And the lump in my throat In the early hours song I remember that melody from somewhere But if you are a siren And I have sailed to your side I wont hesitate if you recognise me If you let me I'll love you then too I already do I will be the insect who wont leave your car
4.
Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile 'Til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang sail to me Sail to me let me unfold you Here I am, here I am Waiting to hold you Did I dream you dreamt about me Were you hare when I was fox Now my foolish boat is leaning Broken lovelorn on your rocks And you sing touch me not Touch me not come back tomorrow Oh my heart, oh my heart Shys from the sorrow I'm as puzzled as the oyster I'm troubled as the tide Should I stand amid the breakers Or should I lay with death my bride Hear me sing swim to me Swim to me let me unfold you Here I am here I am Waiting to hold you
5.
Delicate 05:00
A soft wind blows and I'm delicate enough to feel it Of the western rose you're the last one of the season Brie keeps kicking herself for feeling Left the light on cos your brain was reeling Another piece down so it's all revealing Watch how it grows from refracted things Your belly's a home for a star we dreamed I can't stop now cos the creams in flow You're a primal force with a heart of snow Wherever you are We sing the same thing Wherever you are We sing the same thing Cymbals in the back cos the trash has flow Reaching for your hand like I'm doing up a bow Melting on the ground cos I let it slip You stuck around like you found something Maybe I’m a someone in your life It started with a day and it turned to night Here you and I are conspiring thoughts Now look at us folding up a cot Glaciers wouldn’t melt Meant it all in earnest but then it fell down I couldn’t keep you honest but it seemed to work When I think about your kisses my stomach starts to hurt Held by the seven sealed doe Rampant as a squirrel skipping through the snow Keep telling you I mean it til you start again When you catch a feeling Ride it til the end When you get the fine and the angels Chime in their harmonies Under your thumb That is the magic devotion has given I couldn’t trace the words but I felt the flow I couldn’t look away but I caught the show Sometimes a poem has the truth you need But you don’t need to know a thing to write a poetry Maybe I’m a someone in your life It started with a day and it turned to night Here you and I are conspiring thoughts Now look at us folding up a cot Glaciers wouldn’t melt Meant it all in earnest but then it fell down I couldn’t keep you honest but it seemed to work When I think about your kisses my stomach starts to hurt Held by the seven sealed doe Rampant as a squirrel skipping through the snow Keep telling you I mean it til you start again When you catch a feeling Ride it til the end
6.
Found my rhythm in the stones that I break beneath the rocks Turned my voice down the phone to these 5am thoughts If I took melody for granted it's only that she stayed Some you write to leave but some don't let you get away Had some bones when I was young Couldn't press 'em for a sigh Fit that orphan in my palm Fed it milk until she died If there's a whisper in the hall that has turned upon your ear It's not the past revealing the line before you Let the memories push the World before you Sure there are stains and drums and some distant gong You tell a mean story but don't we all just sing along A stone that you've bled Some ghost in your bed But you're not half way broken Blank inside, designed and printed in the UK Blank inside, designed and printed in the UK If I took melody for granted it's only that you stayed Blank inside, designed and printed in the UK Had some bones when I was young Couldn't press 'em for a sigh Fit that orphan in my palm Fed it milk until she died If there's a whisper in the hall that has turned upon your ear It's not the past revealing the lines before you Let the memories push the World before you Sure there are stains and drums and some distant gong You tell a mean story but don't we all just sing along A stone that you've bled Some ghost in your bed But you're not half way broken You're not half way broken
7.
Slow Spirit 04:10
Seeker with the black feather And a coven with the underworld Don’t sing Let it sing you By candlelight and silence As the oil divides A succession of small deaths That keep you from killing yourself I am no one I am no one I am a slow spirit Infinitely divided Before the mad god of the old regime Was writing journals to burn the world And R. Seeker never said a thing All the poems he could not escape Bouncing echoes in a cave Don’t sing Let it sing you I am no one I am no one I am a slow spirit Infinitely divided I am no one I am no one I am a slow spirit Planted in everyone Seeker with the dawn feather And the pendulum in swing Every sorrow has a season Like winter has a spring Don’t be alarmed if it’s your neighbour The devil has his ways One day everything happens And no one gets away I am no one I am no one I am a slow spirit Infinitely divided I am no one I am no one I am a slow spirit Planted in everyone
8.
Clever Ghost 05:06
Whilst we're speaking honestly I should tell you truthfully I could never imagine your heart in my hand Likely got swept up in the things We did when we explored tentatively The feel of each other's hands Before mind games Asking myself just to behave Hoping I'm not acting all strange Visibly hiding the words circulating round my brain I'm a clever ghost I'm a clever ghost No one knows where my mind goes No one knows Recently lapping the same shore repeatedly Just like before I can feel the breeze But it's not moving me Lay her down Another trip round a dusty town Intimate amongst the crowd People smiling awkwardly Your hair is thinner now Drop the bottle it puts you down Crazy to think she'd still be down Given how long it's been now I'm a clever ghost I'm a clever ghost No one knows where my mind goes No one knows In your perfect run Did you always think there'd just be one Eternally revealing Sun Ocean still and horizon No that cant be right Come on babe I can't sleep at night Where there's a shadow there must be a light Where there's a shadow there must be a light I'm a clever ghost I'm a clever ghost No one knows where my mind goes No one knows
9.
When I feel sorrow I look upon my history with a heavy heart I want what I let go And there is things I should forget But I cant leave my past behind me It’s my shadow stretching back along the road So I lift my hands To the sun and say You have to be grateful for your past Irrespective of the traps That the lord put in your way When the night won’t end I get lost amongst the company of friends I have lost Women who gave themselves to me Love that still has a beating heart Sometimes when I am weak I want to take it all away Wash away the river of humanity I feel sorrow for a life that is gone I want to be free Yeh I can’t change what I have woven in this life Can’t unpick the thread I spun behind me So I look upon the world with open arms and say You have to be grateful for your past Irrespective of the traps That the lord put in your way Sometimes when I am sick from worry And the rhythm in my head is stuck on you I find myself searching your name Trying desperately to forget what we shared I look at your face and I find comfort Though I’m not sure I recognise those eyes I want to wake up and tell my people That tomorrow should I awake then I should smile I am thankful to have spent this time with you That it hurts me now is evidence I’m alive You are a blessing if I forget that I am bitter I grow tired only of regretting that I smile You have to be grateful for your past Irrespective of the traps That the lord put in your way You have to be grateful for your past Irrespective of the traps That the lord put in your way

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released March 10, 2024

Written, recorded and performed by Luke De-Sciscio, except 'Song To The Siren' originally performed by Tim Buckley

Mastered by Jacob Ware

Artwork and direction by James Booth

Released under exclusive license to Folk Boy Records Limited

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