The rhythm of a train
Rocking hypnotic
Gets me sleepy
I rest my eyes
And how quickly 
My mind’s delivered
Back to the threshold
Of that urge
Back to the beginning
Of starting again

O, if I run away
If I run away...
Would you
Come with me?

This thing, it lures me
And always has done
There’s a persistent calling
A seductive promise
I hear it between the verses
of my favourite ...

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The bell clatters ‘Time’ on another quiet night
tucked off the shore front
In the precious warmth of a Sisimiut tavern
I take another jar, tilt it back and drain
but still there are no answers waiting
Slouching on the bar stool
and licked by shifting shadows
lulled to doze 
by the constant comb of a shuffling sea
An absent-minded shiver washes over
and, suddenly, so softly
your pale arm...

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