No Escape

Beneath the yellow-stained tooth of the dental hospital

I got an overnight ticket for a luggage locker in the city I already call home

There's a movie poster for the seventh sequel of something that we shouldn't have seen

I'm trying to escape you, you're everywhere I see

I sit at a window and watch as a tramline zip-locks a bricked-off street

A bicycle drifts on a wet metal track and gives flight to a kid in hi-vis

A girl in skirt tries to offer the hurt kid help they're too embarrassed to receive

I'm trying to escape you, you're everywhere I see

In front of the markets, where everything's knocked-off, it suddenly gets real

He steps off the kerb with his head in a tablet of at least one variety

A girl stands unfazed in a T-shirt emblazoned with the name of the day of the week

And I'm not even sure that she knows she's doing it

If I'm trying to escape you, you're everywhere I've been

Legless, she would disarm strangers with famous familiarity

Strung-out, she'd see faces of friends in the blank ones she'd pass on the street

There's not a soul in her new group of friends she didn't meet first through me

If she's trying to escape me, her methods could use refining

I'm trying to escape you, I haven't even left Sydney