Novena

Humble moon, what now do I do?

A restaurants' plastic glass

At house party with your hip flask

Has he kept you precious like a locket?

The pale night alive

Through your jeans tight, cigarette box outline in your pocket

We're in the bathroom

And you perch on the sink

I begin to infatuate, exasperate, resuscitate

By day the cat sleeps, but at night how he moans

Through the window's perspex

We sit and talk about sex 'cause it's all we have in common

Don't you know

And it's youth

Ever fading youth

Would you have lived differently if you had known

This life was on loan?

I recall the blue first night I met you

Gaze through the passing time

Your hair was henna and wine

The contrast in what I dream and reality

Took you back from the club while your friends all did drugs

We never spoke about love

Just mortality

And it's youth

Ever fading youth

Would you have lived differently if you had known

This life was on loan?

And it's youth

Ever fading youth

Would you have lived differently if you had known

This life was on loan?

All of these nights you just trawl the same streets

Tell the same stories, you count the heart beats

Obsess with the death of the miracle days

I can feel all your dreams start to flicker and fade

And it's youth

Ever fading youth

Would you have lived differently if you had known

This life was on loan?

Youth

Ever fading youth