“I’m going under and this time I fear there’s no one to save me. This all or nothing really got a way of driving me crazy. I need somebody to heal. Somebody to know. Somebody to have. Somebody to hold. It’s easy to say. But it’s never the same. I guess I kinda liked the way you numbed all the pain Now the day bleeds. Into nightfall. And you’re not here. To get me through it all. I let my guard down. And then you pulled the rug. I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved. I’m going under and this time I fear there’s no one to turn to. This all or nothing way of loving got me sleeping without you. Now, I need somebody to know. Somebody to heal. Somebody to have. Just to know how it feels. It’s easy to say but it’s never the same. I guess I kinda liked the way you helped me escape.”
— Lewis Capaldi
“It’s coming to pass My countries coming apart The whole thing’s becoming Such a bumbling farce Was that a pivotal historical moment We just went stumbling past? Here we are Dancing in the rumbling dark So come a little closer Give me something to grasp Give me your beautiful, crumbling heart Another disaster Catharsis Another half-discarded mirage Another mask slips I face off with the physical My head’s ringing from the love of the stars There is too much pretence here And too much depends on the fragile wages And extortionate rents here We’re working every dread day that is given us Feeling like the person people meet Really isn’t us Like we’re going to buckle underneath the trouble Like any minute now The struggle’s going to finish us And then we smile at all our friends”
