Atomised (feat. Nick Powell, Alex Lee & Jason Cooper)

These are just sketches we shared

These are the things we spawned

These are the plastic chairs

And the attempt at a lawn change

These are the three precepts

Chalked up but barely acted upon yet

Those were the best laid plans

And these? These were the also-rans

Those were the grand designs

Those were surely the guaranteed good times

Box fresh, yet to happen yet

Trip of a lifetime, expensive pet

No one's getting wasted: it's a pick up day

These are the things I always do

Or at least that's what you always say

Those are the things you always say

Or at least I seem to choose to see it that way

This is the carved wooden box for drugs

Those are the bank statements

Those are the Turkish rugs

And that is the moment that there was a time when we

And that is the how it is now but it wasn't always that way

That's how the rolling news seems to be all about us

Written in symbols and codes

Schematics, junctions and nodes

And this is leaving the party and avoiding a fuss

That's the last light of dawn

And that's the breaking of dusk.

There's the number of the guy that your friends said could really help

When they witnessed the sickness and lobbied by stealth

That's the same old story for fifteen years

That's what we heard on the grapevine

Those are the tracks of my tears

That is tracing a line down your perfect skin

That's you breathing back and opening

This is Once In A Lifetime

This is Life During wartime

And this is how it got smaller and how it closed in

And this is how it got closer so it seemed to get big.

And that's the universe in a sitting room

And this? This is the atom bomb

And this is how it got smaller and how it closed in

And this is how it got closer so it seemed to get big.

And that's the universe in a sitting room

And this? This is the atom bomb