Peter

Sober enough to ask why, this way’s been chosen, before anything we can deny, more a sombre space, your mouth frozen, by tired phrases, sing your favourite lines, the time done with roses, made better when you try, wave all the great stations beyond a life hopeful, shrunken or awakened, even at the graveside, witness love's cloaking, clouds sail the sky, what settles on your face, neither time provokes, nor blows away the traces, a paper at your side, an accountant’s notebook, more a wish to verify, what truth gets spoken.

Mathilde

If trouble's in your blood, in this place of whispers, who says it does much good, rivers you can name, don't need a chorus, repeat them just the same, times they say you should, be prepared for this, or go nuts, they'll find another way, don’t do what they insist, their knowledge drives you crazy, maybe you need a hug, go away without a ship, rain that falls like dust, when you're free again, push the middle distance, make the Ocean your frame, ride their cool diagnosis, the worry in their lists, blow for tugs, choose to live.

Greens

Easy enough to ask why, we've been chosen, so much here to deny, laugh at all the crazes, they try to impose us, invoke stupid phrases, ask what’s our favourite line, act as If well spoken, will the world catch fire, they wonder if we’re lazy, in work shirt and overcoat, sweet days of praying, roll out the usual lies, verify love's soaking, clouds lower the sky, green in our furious phases, we bow in cold assurance, dance away the traces, a flower lifts our smile, just some little token, more than any pride, we stand here unbroken.

Fiona

Don't forget you're better, red lipstick on your lips even if they stick together, you don’t come here to booze, kissing your fingertips, there's even more good news, love is not forever, when you laugh and skip, time at all or never, kick off Monday’s shoes, roll around your hips, now’s the time for truth, nothing beats duress, giving liars a clip, an artist’s hope at best, who needs a little dress, when you paint like this, his songs play your request, would you be lesser, if you stood there stripped, binned all his letters, wise in what you miss?

ciaran

You like strong tea, tears lachrymose, fill up the breach, never one to blow cold, you won’t let it go, face crowned with thorns, jokes your repartee, might have once been so, your thoughts start to weave, littered with scorn, why beat that drum, this café’s your home, it replaces uncertainty, the moon in your dome, wants to believe, now the kids have gone, you and her alone, whisky the scouring stone, when they leave, do you try to atone, walk back to your seat, admit that you're wrong?

Tony

I'm forever beat, even with a common air, but hope rescues everything, I need to buck up, heaven is a place to share, sometimes needs a little shove, when I’ve gone to seed, have a go at taking care, it's not easy being free, get dressed feel the bug, never short of prayer, a signal to those above, I know how to keep, a house and wooden chair, drink is my sole conceit, fire brings on the tug, lovely faces dance on stairs, lamp lights shine with love, can everybody see, the gaps between my hair, do I need new teeth, will my smile fit anywhere?

laura

Working here's no paradise, it’s always in the news, people aren’t very nice, could as well be jail, coffee and cake like glue, love’s a broken gate, all I want's a better life, show what I can do, need a little respite, my songs are well regaled, the arias too, a pity I don’t flay, this cesspit full of lies, little pieces made of you, don't ask me why, what has been created, boils away like stew, I’m not an easy play, home’s for me no searchlight, when it beams on truth, this time of early night, sheds no pretty hues.