The National in Lisbon // I love Portugal

'I can see the glowing lights
I can see them every night
Really not that far away
I could be there in a day.'

'Venom radio and venom television
I'm afraid of everyone.'

'Meet me in the stairwell in a second
For a glass of gin
Nobody else will be there then.'

'I don't need any help to be breakable, believe me
I know nobody else who can laugh along to any kind of joke
I won't need any help to be lonely when you leave me.'

'it all catches up to me, all the time.'

'I'm so surprised you want to dance with me now
I was just getting used to living life without you around.'

'Let’s go wait out in the fields with the ones we love.'

'We live on coffee and flowersTry not to wonder what the weather will be.'

'I didn't understand then
I don't understand now.'

my greatest mystery

i wish i could paint you or draw you.

i wish i could write you with words-

books and books of you.

i wish i could play you on the stage;

all that you are in one performance.

i wish i could make perfume of you-

capture your scent forever.

you in once embrace, just to hold;

still and strong.

i wish i could sing you out- 

a song my heart knows well.

i want to see you in the eyes of strangers

and looking back at me in the mirror.

be my reflection. 

i'd like to take your picture...

but i can't.

there are not enough water colours to paint you,

not even the greatest imagination holds a picture of you.

there are no words worthy or true enough.

all that you are could never be played, like a character,

made of merely human parts.

your scent too fragment to take in.

you are my greatest mystery, 

i will not stop searching