DESCRIPTION:
A Pharmacy In Paris

Apologies, I Have None - 'Pharmacie'
Holy Roar Records, 2016
Available at: https://www.holyroarrecords.com

Video by South of Devon Films
http://southofdevon.portfoliobox.net

This confession has meant nothing
there's no more barriers to cross
nothing is redeemed.

I've gained no deeper knowledge of myself
a broken empty vessel,
a lung that is lacking air
you could take my hand and feel my flesh
gripping yours but I simply am not there.

Gone without a warning,
I go down without a fight
but you and I,
we'd level each other out
I was the pills that kept you steady
you the opiates that talked me down
all we had to do was try
and make each other laugh
and let love and medication see us through the harder parts

you're not the type of woman
that ever likes to say things clearly,
but you know that I'm the kind of guy
that needs to have it spelt out for me
and it's not the sort of thing that ever
really seems to just get better
no parents and no friends or lovers,
or doctors seem to ever have an answer

it comes without a warning
and I go down without a fight
but you and I,
we level each other out
I was the ghost in your machine,
you were the chink in the armour of my self doubt
all we had to do was try
and make each other laugh,
it's all we had

love and anger they share the same bed,
the same body heat warms both of them
they rise together as we come together and it makes a mess of our heads
we've seen it before
and we'll see it again

expectations cause a rift
as we stand on different sides
until the crack becomes a chasm,
an unconquerable divide,
and we rarely see
eye to eye

maybe a kid could sort us out,
we could take everything we love about each other
put it into someone else
take all that extra energy
that we would use to fight
and pour it into the foundations of
the building of a life
I can see it now,
almost close to perfect
it could be you, her and I
living by a pharmacy in Paris
all we have to do is try to and
make each other laugh
and let love and medication
see us through the harder parts
is it ever enough?

is it ever enough?