James

You ask can we cope, If you could only help, to take back our home, why make us suffer, away from the Pen, no need for your spend, stay out of our zone, you might mean well, we're better alone, don't focus your lens, measure our chrome, try to be open, we’ll roll with the blow, on bar stools and leather, our skin needing soap, by long gait and bend, we’re not tethered, neither your friends, we laugh at your rope, it dangles bereft, our dreams might need hope, but we have heaven.

Peter Four

What do you care, don't hold me in traces, you wouldn't dare, your tune is not easy, blue webs across my face, spun by the breeze, say you need to share, but where’s the kissing place, why put me here, in chains to the sea, unlike your gaze, a sung hymn to serendipity, hard to know what's fair, when your voice is dazed, lips that snare, down swollen streams, no one escapes, sugar sweet, you're no liar, to sing so great, are you aware, what you give away?

Peter Three

You can sometimes squeeze, from each breath she takes, a manner that's easy, she murmurs God take me soon, face washed grey, from hospital rooms, outside is a magnolia tree, love marks her day, purple on the breeze, it's not her tune, this lousy disease, the wind goes boom, forget my frenzy, her bed's like a creel, she can smell the sea, sees sunlit avenues, Paris, Marseilles, Paracletes, all good news, home in a house that creaks, she listens to the rain, she turns to speak, this is what she says.

Peter Two

You sift through trouble, don't get frightened, he'll no longer inform on you, before you throw, and strew his intestines, let go all you loathe, silence is your hub, a source for your brine, hands that you scrub, laugh at the cold, hear the clock chime, they'll never know, or remember love, forgive his broken wife, she sings in your blood, before the river flows, check the earth besides, and all that he sold, you pull on your gloves, take your time, shoulder what's to come, drink some wine.

Peter

For each little bit of you, if anyone enquires, don’t give them a clue, life isn't a stone, thrown into the fire, why should you atone, your little cup of ruin, is no more than a choir, you’ve still got the tunes, you know in your bones, what poisons your desire, but it leaves you alone, whoever reads the news, you see who's for hire, find your own truth, if no one 'phones, when you try to inspire, leave your home, dance down the avenues, sing on the wire, you’ve always paid dues, you're no kiss ass liar.

Bella four

Sober you can’t ask why, accept I’ve been chosen, before you deny, stare at dead places, you’re mouth frozen, with stupid phrases, instead, sing my favourite lines, our time done with roses, say what you can’t deny, beyond children raised, you neither shrank nor spoke, of all the great stations, at the graveside, you witness love's cloaking, clouds sail the sky, what settles on your face, neither cries nor provokes, you blew the traces, a flower at your side, just some little token, more a wish to verify, what lies broken.

Bella Three

Look at the moon, a spring tide today, everything comes around too soon, the birds who have flown, seeking away, singing as they go, your eyes can't fool, say wouldn't it be great, to find somewhere new, a place for the soul, where no panic reigns, forget mortgage loans, somewhere not cruel, but poised and sedate, no tickets due, problem hurricane zones, emotion's just a name, for love on a poncho, my good parts are true, I can firmly state, you'll love it here too, high above the flames.