Hope
My loyal friend
If I keep you close
Will you make amends
Been a long
Coloured vein
Trading pleasant
Unfiltered aim
Predicting futures, forgetting pasts
Collecting maybes but the shapes don’t last
Cos it’s all uneven, all scattered ‘round
A faded outline of a fading town
Chorus 1.
Form layers to protect yourself
Form layers to conceal the past
War paints to hide the battle scars
For the paints will dry by themselves
All layers remain
Prospecting for gold, California mid-1800s
Doubt
Long enemy
Will you keep your distance?
Just as we agreed
Her sister graceless: Apathy
Been hiding levers
Was revealed to me
Was a bed of roses, now bed of steel
Will you still be here for the in-between?
Through the fading light and faded sound
Saw animal outline some animal form
Chorus 2.
Form layers to conceal yourself
Form layers as to blend within
War paints to hide the battleships
For the paints will dry by themselves
All layers remain