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Matthew Herbert

Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss A singing smile Coffee and lilac skin Your flames in me Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss A singing smile Coffee

Be ? bend your ear Work it out Things you hear Someone's knee Clicks just here Foreign bodies Start to appear What What is this Revealing?

It's so hard without you Things aren't the same now If you could speak now Would you? Words aren't the same now Everything is still in me I'm not

It's only the sound of the phone ringing It's only your silent voice singing It's only the darkness bringing memories of you It's only the first double

It's only the tired clock ticking It's only the part of the drum kicking It's only the touch of you picking little of me It's only my favourite face

Gonna leave it all behind Gonna learn this simple mind Gonna teach it a few Things that it already knew Gonna learn this simple game Gonna leave

You are my flesh You are my bones You are endless shifting tones You are my eyes you are my ears You are the salt within my tears You are my noise

This world is not like mine This future's far behind Suddenly I have no points of reference now So suddenly Our magnetic worth Won't point the

You're not my only friend Not even my best You're almost of essential though Along with the rest You're not my only sense You're one of a few You