Katie Three

Sometimes I ask why, can we ever atone, when stars burn like ice, It would be great, to light our bitter home, night and day, but not blessed with foresight, the wind runs cold, you pour another wine, are kids and dogs your game, your eyes look old, listen just the same, when you hear me cry, don’t ask too much of love, it's not enough to sigh, hammer shiny nails, help me with the loans, this place is not a jail, no matter how we fight, or beat our yellow bones, we can do what’s right, quietly in the zone.

Katie Two

Sad songs in my car, hot water in my tank, doesn’t leave a tide mark, washed by your stupid ways, a ticking from the crank, awful terrible waste, you steer within the dark, make even sunshine dank, scatter ashes on the bar, what is left to say, my mind fills up blank, clings to a brighter day, Oh you are a dog, a million ways to crack, split me like a log, brought me to this state, as if I was a bank, it’s bust anyway, we never know how far, what lies down the track, to see what's going on, or who else to thank?

Katie

Please don't identify, one lonely swimming pool, between me and the sky, tell me it’s nothing, lies ripped from a sewer, you never offer, to stay for these nights, no one unused, stuff that makes you feel right, don’t want me to suffer, shed all bad dreams too, act like a winner, bring sweetness to the light, grant my purview, buttered dreams sweet fire, savour the offer, to say what's true, instead of phoney proverbs, don’t ask me why, I fear losing, my toes stretched up high, this long afternoon

Ray Two

Can you bring serenity, to this creature in a jar, rescued from the sea, like someone in a grave, bears a different mark, something you can't name, one who sets you free, like a bell from far, back to childhood dreams, maybe it's a different age, we drive around in cars, but I still feel strange, nothing fills my need, 'cept a salty bog, somewhere I can scream, to dance by the waves, sails wrapped around a spar, rid the stuff that's wreckage, the only thing real, this little stickleback La, swimming around a jammy, who needs a Da?

Ray

I’ll take a ship to France, do you want me to stay, beg for another chance, don't get so cute, the way life is framed, you're no fool, in fact you're banned, once again nailed, start to prance, we’re not so cool, lies mere details, we don’t run smooth, don’t look askance, when I start to rail, passion can pass, shame doesn’t bother you, nothing more to say, you won’t need tunes, to slide down the scale, will you take my hand, look at me again, say I’ve got some class, call my name?

Carthy Four

Can't get around the news, that you’ve slipped away, your note tells the truth, you stepped off the Metro, finished up your days, left me with the loans, I haven't got a clue, what in heaven's name, I’m going to do, everything we call home, doesn’t glisten the same, the dogs see you go, I sing hopeless tunes, trapped within their gaze, everything is blue, you just left us alone, as if it was some game, made jelly of our bones, I am a bitter fruit, to put upon your plate, ask where you are going, dancing in the rain?

Carthy Three

Since you've gone away, I don't know what to do, but each night pray, laugh in the hurricane zone, see your face in whirlpools, above me like a drone, sickened every day, the sea still surrounds you, wonder if there’s a way, you’ll send me a loan, you don’t want to, gardens need to grow, walls are turning grey, say I never loved you, as if I’m on the make, don’t want to be alone, not saying isn’t true, I’m just a rolling stone, my eyes are like jade, I’ll resist any curfew, lying by the drains, on dreary afternoons.