Boy Racing

Night

And my nerve endings

Coded messages they're sending

Twitch and tingle

Blink and twinkle

Restless as the million stars I've counted

Overhead tonight

Spinning

My head and stomach

All gravity and magnets

Each contrary, rotating planets

Pulling sleep away

With every hour making minutes

Am I outside my life or in it

And all this music

That's making waves within it

Can I find one song to sing it?

All the words I've strung like beads

All the words that stung like bees to bring it

A little fruit, a hue or two, a sign of something

Or someone that I knew

And this life feels like so many different lives

I'm falling through

Night

Dizzy night

I can't recognise the cycle of the years

The source of all my fear

The source that led me here

Your boys' cologne, your beer

The presence of our fathers ever near

Sacred secrets you whisper in my ear

All this tonight

As you move closer to me

Your light will eclipse and will absorb

The darkness that confounds my foolish all

Place harmony where there has been discord