Behaviours Lyrics

Jennifer gentle is frightened again

Picks up their eyes in her thoughts and falls overboard

Every monday without fault

Following a rip tide - there she goes

To open water

Where she will sing

Always sings

Sometimes on tuesday gets tangled in space

Stands in the street for an hour 'till it's over - poor girl

Picking up an earful when it rains

Pulling down the sunshine in her heart

Waiting for the right time

To sing

With what they will call her behaviours

She tears the labels off

Life is lonely, living through a glass darkly

I am here, if you listen closely you can hear me roar

I have lent an ear to your suggestions

I have answered a thousand questions unacknowledged

The world is full of tangents, of comings and of goings

People following patterns without knowing

I live in closed loops, spinning febrile hoops - but so do you

Your arc is just wider - my orbit is tighter, close to the bone

I may fly blind but with my X-Ray eyes, i see

Through your smiling grimace

The refractions in your smoke and mirrors

Where meaning is effaced by the unmoving hands

On a silent clock

Jenny on wednesday will come up for air

Calling collect from her bed on the ocean floor

She doesn't mind who's listening

Empty chairs are fine for mannequins

In sheep's clothing

She lives in the echo chamber of her loneliness

Stuck with pins and needles in her favourite birthday dress

They put her in poses, dress her in clothes

And send her out to meet the wolves