Zina

When you see a fading star, it makes me uneasy, knowing they're out so far, children you wish and dogs, then stay as you please, in a warm hazy fog, my ship goes to Mars, but not in tranquility, can't get there by car, if it's not what you want, through all the love seasons, name the stuff you don't, put water in my font, make all my fires increase, tell me what's going on, I'm like someone in the dark, not on a bended knee, but feel like Ziggy Stardust, singing in a boxcar, why scatter all my needs, blow ashes on the bar, I don't do serenity.

Yesley

When bells ring out the night, I'll make my mark, like a song beseeches why, the goal’s within sight, a warm embrace by dark, give me your sweet sign, dusk falls in green light, our lives over the bar, say we won't ever fight, an American asks why, lovers love in cars, seek audiences world wide, dancers whose fame decides, if the prize's too far, on many a famous night, singing scenes of pure delight, a smoky voice like tar, swells my appetite, there maybe no second lives, but home is my spark, a woman who knows her rights, what a lucky star.

Xylah

You scatter my beliefs, like ashes from a car, say it brings serenity, blowout all my pay, ask me what's going on, such a terrible waste, clinging to the sea, like someone in a bottle, others won't set you free, it's a different age, you say your pretty smart, but still hesitate, who will fill my needs, like a warm hazy dog, my path from childhood dreams, i'll dance on the waves, all the stuff you're not, scattered in the wreckage, cigarettes aren't good for me, they just leave a scar, holy water is my drink, do you love my Ma ?

Whitney

Is it love of rain, or a blown out tyre, that you lean against, shuffling in the gloom, asking who is for hire, no one jumps for you, problems they just look away, all a bunch of cryers, no-one's easy or brave, to do what you do, your eyes in the fire, see beyond these blues, make offers to the saved, bend an old fish wire, this is what you give, whisper for someone's due, anyone to enqire, some body to stay true, be the one to rise.

Valentina

In the Summer light, they herd us poor, gathered on the security line, it's hot for the season, sons and daughters, talk about freedom, on the sidetrack's dusty side, a bitter truth is born, it doesn't merit inquiry, to wake up feeling easy, we are over the border, maybe in our dreams, worry all the down time, if we'll be caught, in some new policy drive, who would believe, we stay here comported, do we make a guilty plea, ask for a little water?

Uri

Well wouldn't you know, how people feel, suspicion in every bone, my stllted smile's a strain, hunkered in this territory, they catch it anyway, take my time right now, night stars have no a key, river always flow, why not greet the rain, splash in mountain streams, won't catch another train, ride along the brow, mine those other seams, Tenessee's a picture show, you’re long in the grave, live within your dreams, even for each day, don't need to follow, to see how I've been, stay strictly on my toes, nothing's how it seems.

Tina

Clouds furl across the sky, death brings no easy due, even when you lie, he don't care what's fake, still he comes for you, it's your blood he tastes, something deep inside, not just an ordinary Blue, makes you want to fly, those barriers he creates, just say look you fool, who are you to ordinate, however you get high, love is not immune, tell him not to apply, living is to celebrate, something very cool, not when you calculate, all those troubled nights, he only brings bad news, banished when you drive, you always knew.

Sally

Keep your eye out brains, don't ever let me moan, guide me on the way, forget what's on your mind, in my life of Soul, am not the lonely kind, singing makes me great, turns to dust our bones, just look at my face, please don't take fright, pleading like a dope, in my tunes you'll find, rage against the grain, makes me stand akone, not worried who's against, tunes let me find, it's not my life they own, what's buried deep inside, bum notes can go ape, all the world's aglow, nothing has to change, I'm my own show.

Ria

Lips twist like knives, I am not forgiving, my sweep is river wide, so what else is new, he'll regret sinning, forget trips to secret venues, my Ma says stay wise, make him do the giving, torture him at night, guess our love's not smooth, tobacco blonde and dry, maybe it's all true, could be she's right, he's fresh alive and swimming, sunlight, water, sky, I'll shake the lifeguard crew, laughter's for the living, my eyes are lemon blue, I'll dance in the tide, catch him if he's skimming, nail him with my smile, this is just beginning.

Rosalie

In darknened evening blue, please give me a sign, I'm a woman of virtue, it’s not me gone cold, when others tell me lies, that you have let unfold, my tears ask if you knew, I cry all the while, should I die for you, my life's no longer bold, not exactly cock a hoop, it makes me suddenly old, care is not an issue, for me or your wife, do what you want to do, come here I scold, let's just light the fuse, no one loves alone, bring me no more truth.

Quinna

Chained to your days, can your heart forgive, fly above the haze, best not to moan, desert or rescind, your life as a loan, don’t be a wethervane, turning in the wind, patched like cellophane, you're not alone, so sail with the ships, put meat on your bones, live for today, just give it a spin, love's more than trade, welcome the tones, as a lonely soul shifts, shout its coming home, when someone says, you don't fit in, ask them the best way, to know how to give ?

Polly

Sing a poor woman's Blues, sway happy on the wire, always pay your dues, if no one 'phones, when you try to inspire, go places alone, each little bit of you, is all that's required, why give them a clue, life isn't a stone, you leave in the fire, like a dried old cone, for your choice of perfume glow stronger than a choir, play all of your tunes, you know in your bones, when others conspire, they'll never leave home, you're not a liar.

Omar

You could scream could you, when she demands another loan, talk of bringing bad news, god knows, out of sight, like some ocean boom, she drifts on cloud nine, floats down the avenue, her daisy head blown, paints us pictures lemon blue, spinning dollars in the night, she’ll break any curfew, never mind the fights, when she cries for truth, we know she's not alone, it's useless to argue, thinks she is so wise says what's done is done, all thats gone to ruin, always makes us groan.

Nikki

Play charades all the while, when you hit the trail, ride that lonely mile, in your bones, you don't need a stay, to be alone, you left me to die, on your holy grail, say you don't have time, can you atone, when love always fails, shame marks our home, flip a coin see the sky, talk of hoisting sail, here's mud in your eye, drink wine out of jeraboams, hide that desolate mail, throw stones at his ghost, know how to to cry, what finds you this way, you're not going to lie, hope he's in jail.

Maria

Beat at my walls, tilt against the rain, hover at infirmary's door, thank god you’re home, it is to my shame, I always need to roam, what am I doing this for, forever gone by train, am not wanted by the law, can't say I atone, dance away the strain, know love is not a loan, you look at the score, my face a savage shade, you will pay you roar, don't spit in ticket halls, screech out your disdain, you're not needed anymore, I'm on the highway.

Lily

Consider my duress, you want me for your needs, spit saliva on my chest. what is it to you, when I'm on my knees, do you hail a tribune, children left with excess, the office is your creed, you only crave success, sobbing with fake news, power in what you believe, across Maddison avenue, I struggle and confess, for wine dark waters deep, somewhere for a rest, you tolerate no excuse, within the wounds of history, a turtled mound of refuse, waters to bathe and rest, splash and sink all evening, love like I'm the best, let me taste the sea.

Kayla

My vision's comes too late, not so easy to leave, what I need to say, you recoil at my thunder, exploding in a frenzy, lost in luck or numbers, you'll find out one day, when I get to see, plans you’ve tossed away, is my life so cluttered, my memories deceased, in and out of love, am not made this way, for a cowards retreat, bound fast to the days, i'll make you wonder, stones, graves, wreaths, who you've split asunder, watch out for me.

Julie

A smile on her face, she says carry on, says don't turn away, a horizon once bright, she navigates the Stones, feels if it's right, hears them take a train, like a lover that's gone, it once came her way, the picture's not kind, she can cry but won't, it’s no place to fright, why thoughts work this way, she’ll never understand, here on this highway, drives in a harvest light, hardly a sound, under an empty sky, what is safe to say, not tied to our bones, nothing to gain, by going home.

Ida

It's useless to hesitate, when knife's to the bone, it always strikes too late, never safe to heed, where I've been going, no one makes me bleed, always keep open the lanes, where you slay your ghosts, no matter what others say, I'm gone from that scene, just meet me alone, my turn now to plead, when I'm delicate, a tune with broken tones, please don't demonstrate, I want to succeed, God accepts what I've done, like the wind in the trees, can you understand ?

Harley

Some nights I ask why, other times God says so, why stars make me cry, it might be Space, that marks our credit zone, you're always out so late, back within my sight, the wind is black and cold, have you taken fright, fire and warmth is great, then why go roaming, sit with me and stay, wake up and smile, make this place a home, flame starts with a light, when you hear me remonstrate, strain my hungry bones, ask what's to celebrate, chasing sky alone ?

Ginny

Here's the question, why on a secret phone, you refuse all forensics, if there's no case, to answer your creaking bones, why do you hide away, say you hear whispers, of me in magenta tones, but who makes the trespass, don't blame the fates, for taking my loans, i'm the one intestate, how are you like this, flushed as a trombone, to escape being witness, your voice is still great, but no one condones, your fine line of hate, be careful at inquests, your face like blue bone, unknown and bitter, blow smoke on your own.

Flora

Don't leave with someone else, from this house of sinners, lies won't seal our debts, please spell out why, you are at your limit, can't even face the night, let me take the test, get us some credit, leavened by peace or rest, to be like a child who enjoys each instant, makes me feel enlightened, perish awful nests, bones of saints for relics, loved by only friends, there's blessing in my cry, a love in middle distance, where my fears take flight, blown on sweet incense.

Esme

Then you wave ta ra, it sometimes makes me shiver, I die sitting at the bar, you say I am a fool, to give a little quiver, you'll be back soon, takes you tell are rotten, stories of ports and rivers, other lives you've scarred, my image's just a spool, something you deliver, bottles, tar, tidal floods, pictures from afar, between passage as my lover, left like a door ajar, forgive this poor fool, somewhere she remembers, when they drain the pool, you won't be living.

Dana

Smoking a lucky star, chasing numbers, always swimming out too far, the same calendar sisters say, how we wondered, she'd make a great play, her great beating heart, lived near the wetlands, then she bought a car, sped into the fray, her face bewildered, would give anyone a race, right from the start insisted, we watch her skid park, she hit the cliff gates, her laughter gone still, almost ten years to date, love always hungers.

Chloé

In a supermarket yard, her lovely face stretched, washed by rain and dark, shining and decent, the trolleys are fetched, where the bums frequent, she walks across, where they make bets, a spirit of great spark, comes here to to assess, it's a rare frequence, not put to the test, when clearing this park, to be at her best, she shops at The Ark, but'll never forget them, life bursts with interest, unlike polished gems, the hymn of all vagrants.

Bella

Lonely as this fools game, you don't know what to do, who you have to pay, the same with pasting rouge, when others look for praise, how you ought to know, just when you say, somwone give me a tow, the punter turns up late, how they break your bones, think if you hesitate, won't leave you alone, forget about their pay, duties come with stones, they'll just have to wait, I need time not groans, stories to write and create, at easy depths not shallows, blow smoke find a mate.

Avery

The house is in ruins, clouds billow out the sky, who will bring us truth, we all die intestate, however lawyers lie, it’s better than commensurate, even God is not immune, when money's put aside, but he won't be duped, coal burns in the grate, he sees how they cry, crabbed fingers on paper plates. it isn't me you fool, putting gold in their tide, seeking out lost tunes, am not yet a wooden crate, their poisoned eyes alight, debts have come too late, summons our different hues, while we laugh and cry, bring all my lovers too, tell them resign.

Zuri

Do you remember the sea, the swell and the spray, our dance of summer holidays, now the kids have flown, gone away, making their own homes, we drop to the beach, at the end of the quay, all our loving of Thebes, oh yes there's also gloom, suddenly drained, wonder where time has gone, laughing you grab my feet, guide me where we lay, my troubles cease, I'm a windblown soul, we rest in the lee, embrace secrets of the old, horizons like these.

Yana

you have such giving ways, bring me Champagne, on my birthday, what can we do alone, without any sense of shame, lead lives all our own, wine pours down my face, like being Christened again, you fire me my Angel, why be here or gone, without a glass to drain, laughing at unknowns, choose to live not waste, our souball coloured spray, get called upon to praise, when we swim along in rhythm with the waves, those trips filled with song, so easy to celebrate.

Xitlali.

The year Duke passed away, i couldn't get past the blues, was shrunken day by day, i hated to be alone, to hear anything new, on the street or Metro, but you became an angel, i didn't have a clue, you acted as my sage, arranged all the loans, gave me back a muse, put jelly on my bones, before this game, i'd imposed a curfew, you paid wages, when I began to play, you listened to the tune, taught me to re- arrange, got me through.

Willa

Babies drive me crazy, I accept their stern cheer, reminds me of the cradle, break a house of stones, an avenues of tears, walking wear different clothes, my love is beyond trade, handled without fear, a good girl these days, long journey's to the coast, nothing is too dear, except the way I flow, kids're never a game, let's make it clear, every nightmare comes with flames, I don't need a sideshow, to combat the fear, it's part of whats given, these turbulent years.