All Our Venices Sinking Lyrics

In the sun at the party

I noticed your dark hair was woven with coppery strands

We hadn't much talked in a week at that moment

So I asked you your thoughts on the band

Then an hour later I left

Without saying another word

You might've gone out on the town

While I went to bed before sunset

I read

When out fell this note you'd written down

It said -

Have a good day you are loved don't forget it

But it wasn't intended for me

It was pinned to the corkboard this last Friday morning

Like your first consultation was free

Soon postered over with wellness

And authentic selfhood

And planting and cutting down trees

So on the Sunday I took it

To return between the pages

Of your half-finished biography

You said the year Bowie died was the last of the good years

Our world is a broken machine

And yet here we all are in this weird twisted timeline

In freefall since 2016

Til you cried at a painting

In an Amsterdam gallery

A red-bearded Lazarus raised from the dead

And I caught your words in this cyanide box

For to finish the songs in my head

You said -

Have a good day you are loved don't forget it

By somebody somewhere I know

With all of our Venices sinking forever

In water or deepening snow

While the sands of the deserts ticking over like clockwork

Unpick all the patterns and signs

To make and unmake our conformal creation

To change here together in time

Change and Time